Let Sybase iAnywhere's Professional Services help you jump-start your SQL Anywhere project now, so you can save time and resources in the long run.
Typical Length: 2 days
Location: On-site
Project Phase: Planning phase or Early Development phase
Smart Steps for SQL Anywhere Solutions is a five-step interactive knowledge transfer session with a Sybase iAnywhere expert. The engagement is geared toward reducing common risks encountered during design, development, deployment and administration of your SQL Anywhere project.
The Sybase iAnywhere expert will provide you with customized product knowledge, techniques, and best practices based on your project requirements, in order to help you accomplish the following:
- Optimize your application and the associated architecture
- Realize greater efficiencies throughout each phase of your SQL Anywhere project
- Prevent common downstream issues
- Ensure effective use of your internal resources
- Enable a more timely rollout of your solution
Five Steps to Success
Sybase iAnywhere experts work with you from project assessment and architecture planning through deployment and support.
Step 1: Overview of Project Roadmap
- Attain an understanding of your project and key requirements
- Assess the skill set and experience of your project team and identify areas where a more in-depth knowledge base would be beneficial
- Assist you in identifying where the biggest challenges will arise in your project and how this should be taken into consideration in the allocation of resources
- Identify areas within your project where greater efficiencies can be realized given the architecture behind SQL Anywhere and the resources available for your project
Step 2: Architecture Definition and Review
- Lead your project team through focused, interactive knowledge transfer sessions based on the objectives of your application and the extent of your experience with SQL Anywhere
- Share performance considerations and proven best practices as they relate to your project
Discussions could include:
- Performance and tuning of your SQL Anywhere application and database
- How to take advantage of wireless communications
- Choosing an appropriate data access strategy (online versus always available)
- Choosing an effective data synchronization strategy
- Best practices using OLEDB, ADO, ODBC, JDBC, etc.
- Role of major product components
- Data storage requirements
- Understanding memory usage
Step 3: Deployment Strategy
- Review your plans for deployment and identify any potential issues that should be addressed during the development phase of your project
Discussions could include:
- Components that should be deployed
- Using your own install versus using the SQL Anywhere install
- Authentication
Step 4: Backup and Recovery Plan
- Discuss options available for backup and recovery and identify those that would be most appropriate for your solution
- Consider ways in which the backup and recovery process could be simplified for the benefit of your end-customers
Discussions could include:
- Automatic recovery from system failures
- What data needs to be backed up
- Techniques for automating backup
- Techniques for automating recovery
Step 5: Support and Administration Post-Deployment
- Review your plans for supporting your project post-deployment
- Lead your help desk staff through interactive, knowledge transfer sessions in order to prepare them to support and tune SQL Anywhere
- Discuss the knowledge and tools your help desk can provide to your end-customers in order to ease their post-deployment support efforts
- Identify potential areas where difficulties could arise in the support and administration of your end-customers' deployments
Discussions could include:
- Common errors and solutions
- Online resources
Sales Datasheet
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To find out more about our Smart Steps for SQL Anywhere Services
Contact your local Sybase iAnywhere representative, call 1-800-801-2069 or submit a request for more information.
