Data conversion

Data conversion tasks associated with most software upgrade and replacement projects frequently receive low priority, and are sometimes forgotten altogether in project planning. This critical work often becomes a hack job squeezed in right before the new software go-live date, by software development teams whose role is to ensure new software application stability and functionality, not data conversion integrity. Due to lack of documentation and thorough quality assurance testing of the data conversion, data conversion issues are often not discovered until after the business has been severely impacted by decisions or actions made on the erroneous data. Given this typical scenario, it is no wonder that business users consistently give overall low success ratings to IT on these projects

dataVision SVP has received much recognition from our customers for the work we do in solving this recurrent software upgrade problem. We employ a rigorous methodology, similar to the method used in our decision support conversion work, to ensure success in the actual conversion of the data.

The following represents the services that we provide and believe are necessary for the data conversion phase of the project to be deemed complete and successful:

• Business Rule Documentation and Validation
• Conversion Program Code Development
• Quality Assurance Testing