Create Usable Structured Data
Making your documents “digital” is just the beginning. Unstructured data could be your organization’s gold mine.
It’s easy to think of getting your data into a digital format as the biggest hurdle along the pathway to maturity. In reality, it’s a huge milestone, but just the beginning of making your information truly work for you.
Unstructured, unreachable data can present as many challenges as your old paper files. In order for the digital conversion to be meaningful, it needs to be structured, consolidated, and stored in a manner that makes it accessible and aligns with your needs, practices and systems. Let’s take a look at a few places we would start.
How to Get Started
Map Your Ecosystem
To make the most of your data structuring mission, you should first map out the current state. Where does data reside within your team or organization? Whether it is trapped in filing cabinets, servers, or content services tools – disparate documents and unstructured data are rampant across organizations. Let’s define where your content resides today and make a plan to transform and activate it.
Enhance Accessibility
Make information more available to drive your organization by liberating meaningful data from legacy systems and housing it in one centralized repository. Our teams have extensive experience migrating data from multiple systems, consolidating data and mapping processes that put your data to work.
Integrate Disparate Systems
Our solutions have seamlessly integrated with more than 500 of today’s unique business applications—enabling you to leverage the power of multiple systems at once and completely eliminate the need to jump back-and-forth between screens and programs to find the information you need. Whether your applications are legacy or built in-house, our experts can build an integration strategy tailored to fit your needs.
Set Activation Objectives
The best way to make use of your data is to measure it against the needs of your business. We work with you to build custom reports and dashboards focused on the outcomes that matter. With powerful analytics on your side, cut through the clutter to get to the outcomes that truly make a difference. By understanding what can be accomplished through structured data, we can build a roadmap to get you there.
Look to the Cloud
Your organization grows and adapts in response to new technology, offerings, and regulations. Our data migration services can help customize a cloud strategy to consolidate resources, standardize your processes, and transform your data. Countless cloud-based services can extract and fully structure the data you have trapped inside documents, old servers, or stacked in those filing cabinets you try to avoid.
Turn Documents into Data
An abundance of valuable data points are trapped within the content and documents your team is using every day. Form fields and responses, key dates, approval statuses, historic records – and the list goes on. Having “digital” documents”, while an important step, can only get you so far. Extraction, classification and other structuring methods can transform the way your team works and open up completely new worlds of possibility from advanced automation to business intelligence.