Consulting Services

Base One has a solid track record of helping mid-sized and large companies deal with the challenge of rapid growth while sustaining ongoing operations. Our consultants are hands-on experts who know how to build secure, high performance database applications, employing state-of-the-art tools for rapid development. We put in the extra effort to train and support our clients, because we recognize the value of partnering in their success.

Some recent examples ...

A Fortune 500 firm engaged in trading and syndication of loans and complex financial instruments was experiencing severe performance bottlenecks that threatened its ability to settle trades efficiently. Base One analyzed and programmed changes to their web-based loan settlement system, based on ASP.NET / C# / AJAX technology, which provides a real-time environment for buyers and sellers to create, review, approve, and execute legal documents. As a result of implementing Base One's modifications for streamlining workflow and enhancing database concurrency, the company averted an imminent crisis and charted a course for coping with a rapidly growing volume of business.

A leading performance-based email and digital media marketing company hired Base One to build them a new application for web-based tracking, analysis, and reporting. Using ASP.NET in combination with Base One software, we designed and implemented a system that has yielded a ten-fold improvement in their ability to rapidly evaluate the performance of various marketing trials.

A provider of emergency notification and incident management services contracted with Base One to analyze their current application and develop plans for a new, more scalable architecture. The new system required instantaneous fall-back among multiple processing locations, with an allowable downtime of just 10 seconds per month and the need to handle peak transaction loads of thousands per second. Base One's work was instrumental toward the company's securing substantial further investment.

One of the companies involved in the Hurricane Katrina disaster recovery effort sought help from Base One in managing the installation and maintenance of thousands of trailers and mobile homes. Our consultants provided timely assistance in evolving from a manual, spreadsheet-based system to a contemporary web-based database architecture. The resulting new system is capable of handling large-scale usage and meeting stringent government reporting requirements. With Base One's help, the company has become a prime contractor to FEMA.

An organization of 160 physicians urgently needed to fix problems in their emergency room patient information system, installed at hospitals in the New York / New Jersey area. Their current system, based on .NET WinForms and SQL Server and developed at multi-million dollar expense, was experiencing deadlocks, memory leaks, and severely limited performance. Base One analyzed the system's design and identified a number of specific causes, which quickly led to substantial improvements. The company then sought our further assistance for a more extensive redesign aimed at developing a commercial product.

A media research firm used by major news organizations employed Base One consultants to build the exit polling system for Election Day 2004 and 2006. This database application will also be put to use in the upcoming 2008 National elections. The system has performed rapid analysis of large amounts of dynamic data coming from multiple sources in projecting election winners of 120 races.

A military contractor, in its counter terrorism security reviews of the national electric grid, used Base One consulting to assess the security of a consortium of nuclear power companies. We performed a cyber security and data processing audit, which revealed a number of areas of exposure that merited and received further attention.