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DATA CONVERSION & PREPARATION

Content DSI specializes in designing solutions and providing services to organizations with large amounts of information and complex system requirements. Your company may be struggling with content that is in disparate formats and resides in multiple locations and/or systems. Our document conversion services can help standardize this diverse information into a platform-neutral format, such as XML, and store it in a central repository in order to utilize it in your content management systems.

If you are unsure of your data management needs and requirements, Content DSI can help you identify them by performing a consulting engagement that can help determine what content management or document conversion services your current data storage systems need. If you already know your requirements and need data conversion, database design, or data output services, Content DSI's full staff of data specialists can provide those services quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively.

Content DSI provides the following document conversion services either as a component of a broad solution, or on a standalone basis.

Data and Business Analysis
Content DSI utilizes a phased approach in analyzing your current data and business processes to ensure the solution helps your company fully realize the benefits of a streamlined content management system.

Content DSI works closely with the key people in your organization to document and analyze your company's
  • Corporate and departmental goals and priorities
  • Current information-related business processes
  • Informational infrastructure including current production systems
  • Existing data structure, integrity, and functionality
Data Conversion
Regardless of the current state of your data, Content DSI provides the necessary document conversion services to translate your disparate data to a platform-neutral, electronic format like XML that is suitable for importing into a data repository. If applicable, Content DSI will also integrate your legacy databases into a new solution, or will create a program to automatically retrieve, convert, and import legacy data into the new database. Content DSI provides services that encompass the entire data conversion process.
Content DSI utilizes state-of-the-art document conversion software such as OmniMark or Perl to convert electronic data from its native format, whether it's currently in spreadsheet, word processing, or desktop publishing applications. If no off-the-shelf alternative exists, Content DSI will create a custom script to automatically convert data into a usable electronic format such as XML. Click here to learn more about our data extraction service.

For data that exists only in printed form, Content DSI's document conversion solutions are an ideal solution. Our expert technicians compile and scan your existing documents or images for conversion to digital format. As your data is scanned and examined by our document conversion scanning services, Content DSI can also provide your company the use of our full editorial staff proficient in manual data entry, as well as proofing and editing, ensuring that the data entered is accurate. Content DSI maintains an accuracy rate of 99.9%.

DTD Development
The Document Type Definition (DTD) specifies rules that govern the structure of XML documents and forms a roadmap for your data. Content DSI develops DTDs that are rigid enough to ensure proper content flow and functionality, yet flexible enough to integrate with future initiatives.

Database Design and Integration Services
Content DSI has partnered with industry-leading database vendors such as Oracle and Microsoft and is experienced in designing and implementing solutions based on a wide range of platforms. Content DSI designs data repositories that not only suit your specific data characteristics, output requirements, and business rules, but also are scalable enough to accommodate your current and future initiatives.

The proper document conversion services, along with a well-designed data repository, allow for effective search and retrieval, facilitates efficient porting of information between applications, publications, and business systems, and enables output to multiple media. The repository also supports advanced features such as cross-referencing and relational data structures. Click here to learn about Content DSI's document management solutions.

Data output services
Content DSI provides a full spectrum of services and document conversion software to help you retrieve data from your database and output it to any number of destinations including Web and print publishing systems, Web portals, channel partners, or business systems.
Take the first step toward effective content management with our document conversion services and translate your data into a platform-neutral format that can easily support a variety of output media. Content DSI can help you standardize your disparate data into an easy to manipulate, electronic format and centralize it into a single repository for easy search and retrieval.


Click here for more information about our data conversion services, electronic catalog solution and object relational database management system.
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