Ram Softs India :: Data Conversion Services

Your data is your most important resource, especially in today's rapidly changing information systems industry. Unfortunately, the data you have is not necessarily in the format that you need. Data from legacy systems may not be immediately available to your newer software. Your business may depend on data from various sources which cannot provide it in a standard, usable format. For these and similar cases, Ram Softs India provides data conversion services that offer a variety of solutions to get data from one format into another.

Simply put, Data Conversion is the process of taking data from one place, altering it, and putting somewhere else. This process can take many forms and have many useful properties. In many cases, the data conversion process is applied to files from one application to make them available to another application. This process is used in system upgrade projects to move the historical data from the old applicaton into the new one without the need for re-typing. In other cases, the conversion process is applied to files to modify or update portions of the data. The basic types of data conversion are described below.

Media and Format Conversion

Media and format conversion involve changing the layout of a data file so that it can be used in a different application, or with different hardware or operating systems. Suppose that your organization is implementing a new accounting system, and this new application is replacing an obsolete or semi-customized program, or uses computer hardware that is no longer compatible with your existing system. In this case, data conversion services can be employed to take data from the existing system and make it available to the new system. For large quantities of data, this process can be much quicker and more efficient than any other process. Examples of this could be something as simple as transferring data from obsolete 5.25" disk drives to 3.5" or Zip® disks, or as complex as transferring AppleWorks spreadsheet or databases on 128k floppies to Microsoft Office-compatible spreadsheet or database information to a media compatible with Intel PCs or Power Macintosh machines.

Document Conversion

While many conversion projects involve the translation of various database files, the document conversion service provides a means of translating document files from one format to another. This process is primarily used for translating existing documentation into HTML for Internet or intranet access.

For example, Ram Softs India can take your pre-existing database, document, or speadsheet information and convert them into web documents suitable for publishing on your web site. Of course, Ram Softs India can handle your web publishing requirements as well, should the need arise. If you already have a web site, or are thinking of building an intranet, you are probably going to want to post many of your pre-existing documents on the site.

Ram Softs India can provide document conversion services to translate existing word processor, database, or spreadsheet-based files into web-ready documents in formats like HTML or Adobe Acrobat.

Ram Softs India Data Conversion Services can provide all of these services and more in any combination to create a robust and efficient data communications solution for your organization.

If you are interested in data conversion or any of the associated services, or if you have any questions regarding data conversion, please see the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Section.