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Often times, teams tasked with moving an environmental site forward are inundated with data from past consultants, current investigations, and the public domain while they operate under contractual obligations which require obtaining and digesting state and federal regulatory limits and electronic data delivery (EDD) formats.  ddms can help by providing quality data management services so that project team members can focus on obtaining project goals.  By compiling all historic and contemporary data into one normalized database, one can query the data set and actually obtain answers to complex inquires which are usually cost prohibitive to ask.

ddms provides advanced data visualization services to enable project stakeholders to view and understand data in a manner which is impossible simply by looking at tables and graphs.  ddms employs the industry`s most advanced and cutting edge software to develop insightful and informative illustrations in a cost effective manner.

Environmental Management Information Systems (EMIS) are a collection of contemporary technologies collectively used to allow a user to store, query, visualize and analyze historic and real-time environmental data. The term EMIS can refer to one application or to several software packages which when used together to form a system. Before environmental data management or analysis can be performed, a system to which to store and efficiently retrieve data must be created. Constructing the architecture of this system is in itself a service area.

de maximis Data Management Solutions, Inc. (ddms) specializes in all aspects of environmental data management from data processing to database design and implementation to reporting and analysis. ddms has been providing environmental data management services for over ten years as a core service and has worked on over 100 environmental remediation efforts in the United States and internationally.

ddms’ staff possess over 50 years of experience in providing quality environmental chemistry services on CERCLA and RCRA projects across the country. Our personnel can assist to determine appropriate analytical methods to achieve the project goals, coordinate the analytical efforts with the laboratory, provide oversight or audits of field activities, track delivery of samples to the analytical laboratory, and follow the samples through the laboratory to help ensure on-time results. This benefits the project financially by placing personnel conversant in the process in a position to address routine issues.

A Geographic Information System, or GIS, is a technology platform for storing, retrieving, displaying, and analyzing geographic data. A GIS can be thought of as a Computer Aided Design (CAD) system, with the added ability to work in real world coordinates, access tabular attribute data associated with each geographic feature and perform spatial queries and advanced analysis on their geographic data.

Custom Applications To Meet Your Needs; Software development techniques and platforms have evolved to the point where creating a custom application does not need to be a large cost-prohibitive effort. Often times it may make sense to create a custom desktop application or “linkage” between each software if in the end it will either increase quality of the output product or save time and therefore money or both. ddms’s application developers can create a custom internet or desktop-based application to meet your needs at an affordable rate.

A properly configured relational database can not only increase the speed and efficiency which data are accessed, but by connecting disparate pieces of data, can also yield new information that is not otherwise obvious. In a relational database, each record of data is related to other data records in other tables by a key identifier. This allows the collective database to store information more efficiently than simply storing one massive table of data.

A basic but essential component of quality site management is having an accurate spatial representation of where physical site features reside. Often times, older sites have survey and coordinate data which was acquired by previous contractors and consultants. This may be of suspect quality or even unknown coordinate systems and units. For the project manager of a new site, getting their arms around the site layout is the first step towards moving a site towards its specific goal. In either case, GPS technology offers a quality cost effective method for acquiring locational information. Acquiring site spatial information via GPS costs a fraction of the costs associated with a traditional survey.