Our Services

Business Intelligence

With over ten years Business Intelligence experience enabling some of the country's largest blue chip organisations, healthcare providers and educational establishments to monitor, analyse and plan for the future, Electricstone has a wealth of knowledge for you to tap into.

We offer a range of tried and tested services, including the development of:

• Management Information and Reporting Systems
• Data warehouses
• Reports
• Scorecards
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Dashboards

Information can be delivered to end users through:

• SharePoint
• Reporting Services
• Bespoke web pages / web applications
• Integration with third party applications
• Automated Email
• PDF, Excel and Word documents, amongst others

Database Development

In developing bespoke, robust and scalable database solutions for a variety of organisations, Electricstone enables its clients to manage and analyse their data in a way that suits them.

Electricstone has extensive knowledge of:

• Relational database design and implementation
• Data migration
• Data warehousing
• Performance tuning
• ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) packages
• Reporting services
• Stored procedures, triggers, user defined functions

Data Management

With our considerable experience with a variety of digital information, Electricstone has invaluable knowledge of moving and re purposing data between various mainstream and specialist systems.

Information can be migrated on a one off basis, or scheduled automation scripts and packages developed to collate and re purpose data from multiple sources into data warehouses or management information systems for reporting and analysis.

Our services include:

• Data migration
• Data cleansing
• Information re-purposing
• Bespoke script / package development

Technical Consultancy

To Electricstone, the key to providing an excellent consultancy service is understanding that our clients come with very different budgets, timescales, technical knowledge and, most significantly, business requirements.

We pride ourselves at listening to what you want to achieve through technology and taking the time to understand your organisation in order to provide first class advice and exceptional IT services focused entirely on aiding your organisation in achieving its objectives.

Some of the work our first class consultants undertake includes:

• Business analysis
• Information analysis
• Technology reviews
• User requirements gathering and analysis
• Technical specification writing
• User interface design

Our specialists are also available for short term assignments to fulfil knowledge or skill shortages. These include:

• Business analysts
• Information analysts
• Application developers
• Database developers / administrators

Dashboards & KPIs

Dashboards and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are simple concepts. "The visual presentation of targeted business information, empowering decision makers to make informed decisions on relevant and timely information".

Dashboards have grown in popularity over the last few years, particularly within the NHS following the publication of Lord Darzi's, Next Stage Review and the Health Informatics Review.

Having recently completed projects for Primary Care and Mental Health NHS Trusts, Electricstone has the knowledge and experience to assist you in one or more stages of your dashboard project.

Some of the stages Electricstone can assist you with include:

• User consultation
• Requirements gathering and analysis
• Defining appropriate metrics
• Data analysis
• Mapping of information flows
• Identification of suitable data sources
• Automated data collection
• Dashboard and user interface design
• Dashboard development and implementation
• End user training

Application Development

Electricstone are specialists in the development of bespoke software solutions, as well as the tailoring of off the shelf Microsoft products.

Our Technical Specialists have over fifteen years experience developing with Microsoft technologies, and have created a wide range of solutions for both Public and Private sector organisations.

Our skill set includes:

• Web application development
• Web service development
• Database development
• Graphical User Interface design
• Microsoft SharePoint development
• Microsoft Office development

Some recent development projects include:

• Performance and clinical dashboards
• Business intelligence and reporting solutions
• Technical publication management system
• Project management system
• e-Learning portal
• Forms design
• Workflow applications
• Digital repositories and document libraries
• Data collection, surveys and questionnaires

Microsoft Office Development

With our experience developing, automating and extending the Microsoft Office environment, we know that sometimes its the smallest of changes that can have the biggest effect.

The new document library, collaboration and workflow tools within Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS 2007) and Microsoft Office 2007 bring an added dimension to the Office environment.

Creatures of habit we may be, but slaves to the machine we should not be. Saving a few hours a week by automating a labour intensive task, or by working collaboratively on a project across multiple sites can help give you the business advantage you need.

Utilising the Microsoft Office suite, Word, Excel, Access, and Outlook, we have successfully developed:

• Automated mailing lists
• Automation scripts for data processing / cleaning
• Reporting solutions
• Information analysis solutions
• Data collection solutions, surveys and questionnaires