Local Authorities Database Management Services Case Studies
Despite having huge social and economic responsibilities, most Councils are left to face budget challenges and significant decreases in government funding, and Rushmoor Borough Council is no different.
Without internal database management expertise, and in consideration of the high cost of employing and training new members of staff, the Council needed to find a trusted, external partner.
Not only that, but the partner needed to be able provide a superior database and application consultancy services at an affordable price.
That’s when WellData came into the picture.
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Coventry City Council’s entire estate of Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle databases, which comprised of hundreds of database versions running on different operating systems, was lacking any internal database management.
As such, the databases were at significant risk of failure, with unimaginable consequences for the Council and their residents.
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Devon County Council has relied on WellData for the management of their database estate for over 8 years.
Devon County Council’s database estate was getting to the stage where risk was starting to get too high: in June 2021 the operating systems were nearing end of support, the servers were at a point where the cost of maintenance was becoming too expensive, and the Oracle version needed upgrading.
When the request for Oracle migration to newer and better performing servers and databases came through from the Devon County Council’s IT department, the WellData team was ready.
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