What Makes UpSearch Different?
Unlike MSPs or IT Service Providers who take control of your mission-critical data, fail to cross-train your team, and charge for every hour worked, we serve in an advisory capacity. We ensure that your team knows what to do and how to do it, all for a flat fee. Instead of selling high-commission technology products and earning commissions, we charge a flat fee based on the size of your SQL Server estate.
We understand that to survive health crises, natural disasters, and economic downturns, leaders must learn to see, do, and deliver differently. The most successful leaders understand technology, specifically data, underpins the success of any strategy because to know where to go, they need to understand where they are.
We make it easy for your team to discover what’s in your Microsoft SQL Server estate, monitor its health, and respond to changes.
Different Required a Refreshing New Approach
Team-Managed and All-Inclusive
We take a team-managed and all-inclusive approach because no one person, or small team, can know everything about your organization’s data. We begin by assessing your entire SQL Server estate and getting a deep understanding of each mission-critical workload, along with your business situation and objectives.
Tailored Insights and Guidance for You
After we assess your entire data estate, you will start to receive customized insights on just about anything related to your SQL Servers. We will meet with you regularly and provide guidance that fosters institutional knowledge and internal know-how. The result is a highly personalized and consistent approach aligned with your goals and needs.
All for a Flat Fee
We serve in an advisory capacity, help organizations navigate compliance, security concerns, and growth, enhance internal controls, simplify risk management, and offer clear SQL Server estate guidance. We believe our active, flexible approach to data management enables you to get expert advice without losing control. We charge a flat fee because we do better when our clients do better, not when they buy more database software.
What Others Say About UpSearch
“UpSearch has been a tremendous resource to my company since 1999. Personally, Shawn Upchurch has been instrumental in accelerating my evolution from manager to leader. Shawn excels at closing organizational, team and individual developmental gaps by intentionally managing change. We collaborated at the highest level, from global strategic planning and product positioning to the everyday minutia associated with leadership.”
“Shawn Upchurch and the team he has put together is absolutely amazing. He truly understands recruiting and human capital and is very intelligent when it comes to business. He receives my absolute highest recommendation.”
“For the past decade, I’ve partnered with UpSearch to build top performing teams and accelerate my personal development. Shawn Upchurch is masterful at helping companies and individuals reach their potential. I continue to partner with Shawn because of his unique ability to remain focused on my company’s purpose, while we move between strategy and tactics to create practical and successful solutions.”
“Since 2006, Shawn Upchurch and his team have helped me transform cultures and navigate through multiple complex people and technology situations at two companies. Shawn is an ideal partner because of his business know-how, systems mind, integrity, work ethic and above all commitment to solving my unique business problems.”
“Our company has a 26 year commitment of investing in our Team Members. UpSearch helped us realize the right LMS could enhance our current commitment, thus we engaged them to facilitate the entire LMS selection process. UpSearch’s industry know-how and expertise, combined with their dedication to making sure we selected the right LMS for our unique environment, made them an ideal business partner. UpSearch remain Massey’s business partner.”
“Shawn Upchurch has the unique ability to recognize and solve complex business and people issues before they become organizational issues. I had an opportunity to work with Shawn once a week for several months. I went through a creative process that inspired me to maximize my personal and professional potential. Now I know how to more effectively manage change and I am more prepared than ever to lead deliberately.”
“Since 2009, we have partnered with UpSearch to get the most out of our SQL Server environment. They architected some amazing applications for my company. When UpSearch completes a project, I know it will be quite good. They provided key leadership in our SQL design and infrastructure, as well as SQL mentorship to my team.”
“Shawn Upchurch has a remarkable ability to identify root issues, provide practical solutions and keep others focused on “purpose.” He encourages, supports others and leads by example. Our governing board benefited greatly from his leadership.”
“Shawn is the rare combination of strategist and executioner. He has the innate ability to create a vision and then deliver that vision. His tireless dedication, focus and drive are what guarantee progress on any project, no matter what the hurdles. Shawn is not the consultant that advises then vacates; instead, he advises, rolls up his sleeves and forges through the trenches. As a trustee of an educational foundation, UpSearch built us a platform that made us relevant and credible. We outsourced several human capital needs to his firm and we realized results on all fronts. Effective, equitable, strategic, knowledgeable. Integrity at its finest!”