Data Conversion Lessons
Conversion – Security – Access
Factors Driving Data Conversion
In today’s data world, organizations need to derive value and insights from their data. Data with the ability to retrieve it quickly and securly is a vital competitive advantage. to realize this your organization needs to be aware of, understand, and prepare to adopt new technology and follow current best practices.
Embrace Automation
Automation is about reducing human effort and improving the quality and value of the data you work with. On an individual level, it’s about eliminating lightweight manual tasks that you do regularly, like data validation, data entry, compiling reports, sharing information, and sending emails and notifications.
Leverage More Data Types
Every data type has a unique purpose. You wouldn’t use Geographic information Software (GIS) for financial data and you wouldn’t use a spreadsheet as a data warehouse. It’s important to put data into the best format for the job, just as it’s important to leverage and combine these various systems in order to generate insight.
Technology and Access
When companies move to a work-from-home concept to reality, the big firewalls that were previously used to keep the bad guys out of the data centers and on-premises computing devices were now not enough. Data protection now need a rethink and some help to protect increasingly geo-dispersed users that need access to their data regardless of where they or the data it is located.
Data Conversion
A Process
Data conversion is the process of translating data from one format to another. While the concept itself may seem simple, data conversion is a critical step in the process of data integration.
The Need for Data Conversion
Data conversion is widely needed for reasons related to accessibility. Technology advances, and a data storage format that was once the standard (paper, for example) is now outdated and inconvenient. Specific forms are difficult to retrieve, and this difficulty makes these data less accessible. Sometimes data is stored electronically but in a particular file format that only specific software can access and read. This is due to the innate structure of the file itself. While this was once a limitation, there are now many strategies for converting data, allowing for greater flexibility and enabling people to retrieve and use it.
Data Structure and Compatibility
The structure of data describes not the data itself, but the file structure that the data is stored in. It is this structure that is often the critical component of data conversion from one form of data to another.
Your new data management system needs to have a data management structure to allow the retrieval and readability of your information stored in a given file.
Compatibility
When applications or database formats are updated the process has to consider forward and backward compatibility.
When upgrades or updates to data management systems are implemented then the compatibility of the data – both forward and backward compatibility is important.
Data Conversion
The conversion process needs to ensure that the exact data you need is being converted and that you are not losing any of the the information you need.
Should You Use Excel as a Database?
The conversion process needs to ensure that the exact data you need is being converted and that you are not losing any of the the information you need.
Data Conversion
Technology advances, and a data storage format that was once the standard (paper, for example) is now outdated and inconvenient.