Estate assessment
An inventory of databases, versions, sizes and dependencies, with the applications each one supports.
Industry context
Database solutions in government and the public sector
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.
Government entities work to national digital government standards, with Arabic-first services and public accountability for every change. Service owners, policy and planning departments and government IT need each decision recorded in a form that internal audit and the digital government authority can review. 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 we deliver
Specialists in government and public sector and platform engineers, with you from design to stable operation.
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.
Digital government frameworks
We align delivery with the standards of the authority that oversees your entity, such as TDRA and the UAE Information Assurance Regulation, or the Digital Government Authority and the NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls in Saudi Arabia, and plan sign-in through UAE PASS or Nafath where services use them.
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.
What to have in place first
A database programme is ready to start when the applications on each database and their recovery needs are known.
- The national standards and the oversight body the programme reports to have been identified.
- 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 government and the public sector
Tell us where you are today and which dates matter. We will propose a first phase with scope, owners and an itemised quotation.