Data Extraction Service from Content DSI
At Content DSI, we provide data extraction services to help you retrieve content and output it to any number of destinations including web and print publishing systems, web portals, channel partners, or business systems. Efficient database extraction is essential to organizations with large amounts of information and complex system requirements. A well-designed data extraction solution can help your company quickly retrieve and implement information across a variety of media outlets.
If you need help with data extraction for conversion to a more neutral platform, Content DSI offers data extraction services and database extraction tools that are cost-effective, flexible, and easy to use. Please take a moment to read more about our data extraction and conversion solutions.
Content DSI specializes in designing solutions and providing data extraction services to organizations with vast amounts of data to convert. Your company may be struggling with content that is in disparate formats and resides in multiple locations and/or systems. Our database extraction tools can help standardize this diverse information and store it in a central repository in order to utilize it in your content management systems.
Database extraction tools facilitate the use of content in multiple formats. The preparation of this content for data extraction needs to be efficient and streamlined. Data extraction is an ideal approach to cross media publishing and involves preparing content for output to multiple media forms in concurrent, parallel paths. A well-designed database extraction tool will include the ability to retrieve data that has been cleared for publishing from the central repository and output the data to various web, print, or CD/DVD formats in accordance with your predefined business rules and preferences. Content DSI provides a full spectrum of extraction services and tools to help you prepare and retrieve data from your database and convert it for output to any number of destinations.
If you are unsure of your data extraction needs and requirements, Content DSI can help you identify them by performing a consulting engagement. If you already know your requirements and need database extraction, data conversion, database design, or data output services, Content DSI's full staff of data extraction specialists can provide those services quickly, accurately, and cost-effectively.
Most likely, your customer and channel partners will have different needs and uses of your information. Content DSI can provide database extraction solutions that will enable your company to deliver your content in the format and timeframe your customers and partners prefer. Effective data extraction allows for the quick retrieval and utilization of your assets across a wide scope of media outlets. To understand your needs for data extraction services, we work with you to analyze your business requirements and objectives, and then recommend the database extraction tools that best fit those needs.
Content DSI has partnered with industry-leading database vendors and is experienced in designing and implementing solutions based on a wide range of platforms. Content DSI designs data extraction solutions that not only suit your specific data characteristics, output requirements, and business rules, but are also scalable enough to accommodate your current and future initiatives.
Content DSI provides the following quality customized data conversion services either as a component of a broad solution, or on a standalone basis.
Content DSI utilizes a phased approach in analyzing your business processes to ensure a standardized data conversion that helps your company fully realize the benefits of a well-integrated 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
- Existing data structure, integrity, and functionality
- Current information-related business processes
- Informational infrastructure including current production systems
For database extraction and integration, Content DSI utilizes cutting-edge tools to convert electronic data from its native format, whether it's currently in a spreadsheet, word-processing document, or other desktop publishing application. If no off-the-shelf alternative exists, Content DSI will create a custom script to automatically convert content for easy integration of data extraction.
For data that exists only in printed form, Content DSI utilizes state-of-the-art scanning facilities, database extraction tools, and expert technicians to scan documents or images for conversion to digital format. By utilizing our editorial staff, we can provide data extraction services which include manual data extraction as well as proofing and editing to ensure the accuracy of the data that is entered. Our printed data extraction services maintain an accuracy rate of 99.9%.
Regardless of the current state of your data, Content DSI provides the necessary data extraction services and tools to convert it 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.
Partnering with premier technology vendors such as Oracle and Microsoft, Content DSI provides state-of-the-art software components like OmniMark or Perl that can be integrated to build database extraction tools with robust functionality and clear upgrade paths. Data extraction services from Content DSI provide the ability to easily extract content from a central data repository and output the content automatically.
Content DSI data extraction services help you standardize your diverse information and store it in a central location, allowing you to utilize it in your content management systems. Our database extraction tools aid you in every step of your data extraction and include data and business analysis, conversion, Document Type Definition development, database design and integration.
The Document Type Definition (DTD) specifies rules that govern the structure of XML documents and forms a roadmap for your data extraction. Content DSI develops custom DTDs that are rigid enough to ensure proper content flow and functionality, yet flexible enough to integrate with future initiatives.
In order to determine how XML will be used in your company's data extraction service, Content DSI first gains a precise understanding of your needs. Content DSI then conducts data conversion analysis to review your content and prepare it for import into a central database extraction repository. Content DSI employs skilled professionals trained in XML to tag and code your data. Content DSI utilizes the latest database extraction tools to convert electronic data. If needed, we will create a custom XML data extraction program to automatically convert your data to XML.
To accomplish XML integration, Content DSI has a strategic alliance with PTC,
Arbortext Products Division. Software tools
from this partner enable us to integrate proven
XML authoring and editing capabilities into
the solutions we develop for you. Content DSI
can create custom road maps that define the
structure of your XML documents, ensuring that
workgroups and/or business partners will use
a common format for interchanging information.
These tools provide a familiar user interface
that makes it easier and more efficient for
non-technical authors to create XML documents.
To learn more about data extraction services and tools for conversion that will help your company quickly supply information to a variety of media outlets, contact Content DSI today. |
