Estate assessment
An inventory of databases, versions, sizes and dependencies, with the applications each one supports.
Industry context
Database solutions in education
We design and migrate database platforms so transaction systems stay available and recoverable, with every move tested before it happens in production.
Database work covers the engines that hold your transaction data: high availability, backup and recovery, performance and migration between platforms. We assess the current estate, design the target topology and move workloads in planned windows with a tested rollback.
Schools and universities plan around the academic calendar, with admissions, exams and term breaks deciding when change is possible, and they answer to regulators such as KHDA in Dubai, ADEK in Abu Dhabi and the Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia. Academic leaders and campus IT need to agree each change, so we time go-live between terms wherever possible. Data residency rules often decide where a database may run and where its backups may go, such as data classification policies for government and regulated data in the UAE and the NCA Cloud Cybersecurity Controls in Saudi Arabia.
After stabilisation we hand over to your teams or keep running the service with you.
Alongside sector regulation, we often map delivery evidence to cross-industry baselines such as the UAE Information Assurance Regulation issued by TDRA, the NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls in Saudi Arabia and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which many risk reviewers already use.
What the work covers
We design, deliver and stay until operation is stable, with evidence your procurement and risk teams can rely on.
Availability and recovery
Replication, backup and restore designed against agreed recovery targets, and tested by restoring real data.
Migration and tuning
Schema and data migration rehearsed on a copy of production, followed by query and index tuning under realistic load.
Education regulators and data
We plan reporting and data handling around the requirements of your regulator, such as KHDA in Dubai, ADEK in Abu Dhabi or the UAE Ministry of Education, or the Saudi Ministry of Education, and the personal data law that applies in each market.
Security and encryption
Encryption at rest and in transit, key management and access reviews for administrators.
Operations handover
Monitoring, patching and restore runbooks handed to your database team with training.
Signs you are ready to start
A database programme is ready to start when the applications on each database and their recovery needs are known.
- Term dates and the go-live window have been agreed.
- Application owners have agreed the recovery targets and maintenance windows for each database.
- Security and compliance have agreed where data and backups may be hosted.
Plan database solutions in education
Tell us where you are today and which dates matter. We will propose a first phase with scope, owners and an itemised quotation.