A data model supports your application and the relationships of data therein. A well-designed data model will support the needs of your application without getting in the way. The key benefits to having an appropriately-normalized data model are a solid and logical foundation for your application, and the flexibility to push the boundaries without requiring major overhauls.
We can provide you with a quality data model to meet the requirements of your application. We follow industry standards when designing our models, and have a proven track record of providing accurate data models. We have experience modeling everything from MySQL web applications to Oracle data warehouses.
The data model is integral to an application in that it needs to be easily understood and yet powerful enough to handle all the requirements of the application. Our data model will support all the features of your application in such a way that there is minimal overhead and that the model is not confusing to other developers.
A poorly-designed data model can make extracting reporting data painful. Complicated queries end up taking too long to run and are a nightmare to understand. By keeping reporting in mind from the start these issues can be avoided.
Some applications call for varying degress of generic models. We have experience working with fully-generic models using item, key, and value tables, mostly-generic models using the party, party-role construct, and strictly non-generic models.