END-TO-END SOLUTION • Covers every aspect of the data migration process: data auditing, cleansing, conversion, and reconciliation. RELIABLE • Generates any exception and successfully converts in excess of 99.9% of data on each project. RISK REDUCER • Reduces risks associated with data migrations by making data visible early in the lifecycle, so testing intentionally can start early. • Automatically generates the audit reporting needed before moving into production. COST-EFFECTIVE • Turns BAs into programmers, therefore reducing dependency on programmer-analysts (less than one per project). • Facilitates complex migration projects on a compressed schedule. SECURED • Security is not compromised since the conversion system is executed in secure zone within the customer infrastructure. COMPLIANCE-FRIENDLY • Creates documentation directly from migration logic, so it is synchronized and usable. • Manages project files in a virtual library that reflects data migration structure. • Generates validations and automates common lifecycle tasks. • Identify data inconsistencies and corrects various anomalies based on business rules, so data can be transformed and/or cleansed before being converted. SUCCESSFULLY CONVERTS NEARLY 100 % OF DATA IN EACH PROJECT ELIMINATES RISKS AND REDUCES ESTIMATED TIMEFRAMES AND CONVERSION COSTS BY 40-60% The result of more than 25 years of continuous development and significant R&D investments, the Data Conversion Architect (DCA) is a powerful and nimble web-based collaboration toolset with a number of critical features and components that automate the development, testing and reporting phases of a conversion system development lifecycle. Over the years, this comprehensive package of software and tools has been optimized to plan and perform any type of data migration project, from data analysis, scrubbing, and cleanup to mapping, file conversion, balancing, and reconciliation. Are you planning a data migration project? WILL TAKE DATA MIGRATION OFF YOUR CRITICAL PATH D ATA CONVERSION ARCHITECT www.uctcorp.com INSURANCE | FINANCE | INTEGRATORS | SYSTEM VENDORS
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END-TO-END SOLUTION
• Covers every aspect of the data migration process: data auditing, cleansing, conversion, and reconciliation.
RELIABLE
• Generates any exception and successfully converts in excess of 99.9% of data on each project.
RISK REDUCER
• Reduces risks associated with data migrations by making data visible early in the lifecycle, so testing intentionally can start early.
• Automatically generates the audit reporting needed before moving into production.
COST-EFFECTIVE
• Turns BAs into programmers, therefore reducing dependency on programmer-analysts (less than one per project).
• Facilitates complex migration projects on a compressed schedule.
SECURED
• Security is not compromised since the conversion system is executed in secure zone within the customer infrastructure.
COMPLIANCE-FRIENDLY
• Creates documentation directly from migration logic, so it is synchronized and usable.
• Manages project files in a virtual library that reflects data migration structure.
• Generates validations and automates common lifecycle tasks.
• Identify data inconsistencies and corrects various anomalies based on business rules, so data can be transformed and/or cleansed before being converted.
SUCCESSFULLY CONVERTS NEARLY 100 % OF DATA
IN EACH PROJECT
ELIMINATES RISKS AND REDUCES ESTIMATED TIMEFRAMES AND CONVERSION COSTS BY 40-60%
The result of more than 25 years of continuous development and significant R&D investments, the Data Conversion Architect (DCA) is a powerful and nimble web-based collaboration toolset with a number of critical features and components that automate the development, testing and reporting phases of a conversion system development lifecycle. Over the years, this comprehensive package of software and tools has been optimized to plan and perform any type of data migration project, from data analysis, scrubbing, and cleanup to mapping, file conversion, balancing, and reconciliation.
Are you p lanning a data migrat ion pro ject?
WILL TAKE DATA MIGRATION OFF YOUR CRITICAL PATH
DATA CONVERSION ARCHITECT
www.uctcorp.com
INSURANCE | FINANCE | INTEGRATORS | SYSTEM VENDORS
DCA FEATURES
DISCOVER UCT’S UNIQUE DATA CONVERSION SOLUTION
Traditional software development methodologies fail when applied to data migrations
We believe that a data migration project should be seen as a business issue rather than a technical issue. Business analysts, not programmers, understand the business issues underlying legacy data conversion. Because of this, a conversion without DCA results in a costly codependence between the BAs and the programmers as they try to work together to evolve the high-level design, detailed-design, and implementation into a workable conversion system. If the legacy system is particularly aged, then what was unknown about the system becomes all too clear when testing begins and the team must repeatedly return to the drawing board to try to resolve the new data problems.
VERSATILE
• Connects any legacy (traditional) or modern system to another.
• Generates the most common business language (COBOL) and the newest (Java).
• Can import COBOL copybooks, Java classes, Xl spreadsheets, DDL, and XML schemas as metadata.
• Outputs target data in fixed record, delimited, transaction, CSV, and XML formats.
• New requirements can be easily added/ modified in data maps, and rapidly built into data migration programs.
• Reimports target metadata at any time and alerts users of changes.
• Reporting features are flexible and allow to collect, track, and summarize data migration issues.
EFFICIENT
• Generates any exception and converts any data.
COLLABORATIVE
• Team members work together and may view and edit files concurrently.
DCA ALLOWS TO AUTOMATE SMALL FOCUSED TEAMS TO ACHIEVE RAPID RESULTS
Mutually agreed data tablesData cleaning, etc.
Months of preparation before any visibility for the business
Batch extract
Batch load
TARGET PLATFORM
DatabaseStaging Tables
ELT Tool ELT ToolDatabase
SOURCE PLATFORM STAGING
TARGET PLATFORM
Iterative real time conversion,
one record at a time
Daily progress Database
SOURCE PLATFORM
DatabaseCompiled
DCAModules
WIT
H DC
AW
ITHO
UT D
CA
PLANNINGDetermine product groupings/phasesDetermine conversion approachCurrent date - As of conversion date (recommended for traditional products)Point-in-time - A date in the past with cycle up to reprocess transactionsObtain resources & commitmentEstablish project schedule
DISCOVERYImpact analysis
Source system characteristicsProduct & policy characteristics
Identify interface gaps (source & target)Identify system gaps
Generate business requirements/user storiesResources
Validation criteria
DEVELOPMENT / EXECUTIONDevelop data migration engine/mapping
System/product configurationDevelop system modification
Develop data migration validation processComplete interface modifications
IMPLEMENTATIONDevelop implementation plan
Execute dry runExecute data migration
Validate migrationPost-migration clean-up TESTING
Iterative testingIntegration testingUser acceptance testingData migration validation / compare process
A FLEXIBLE OFFERING FOR A VARIETY OF INDUSTRIES
DCA has been a key to UCT’s success on hundreds of data migration projects for Life & Annuity insurance companies and policy administration system vendors across North America, but it can also be used in any industry facing complex data migration challenges: Health, Property & Casualty, financial institutions, governments, and more. DCA can be licensed to insurers, system vendors or system integrators under a variety of packaging options that include training and multiple levels of resource support, and under flexible cost structures based on various metrics to fit any business model.
UCT’S RELATED SERVICES
• Pre-project data migration study• Conversion project planning• Data analysis and auditing• Project management• Data cleansing• Programming• Development of conversion center of excellence• Data balancing
POWERED BY UCTRecognized as the only North American company dedicated to life insurance data migration, UCT specializes in high volume, complex data conversion projects that frequently involve multiple source and target systems since 1992. With its unique industry-specific expertise, UCT is a one-stop partner and solution provider for data analysis and auditing, data cleansing, conversion, balancing and reporting. Since 2016, the firm also offers its advanced proprietary data conversion toolset (DCA) under licensing agreements. Having successfully completed over 200 migration projects for hundreds of insurance companies and policy admin vendors, UCT has developed a unique expertise, methodology and technology stack that dramatically reduces the costs and risks associated with data migration projects. UCT’s expert personnel have an average of 25 years of industry and conversion experience and work in a virtual environment which increases productivity and helps reduce overall project costs.
A SUBSIDIARY OF EQUISOFTFounded in 1994, EquiSoft offers innovative business solutions to its clients in the insurance and wealth management industries to support their growth by taking advantage of new technologies. In addition to being an Oracle OIPA integration partner for more than 15 carriers globally, EquiSoft also develops and markets innovative front-end applications (InsuranceElements and WealthElements) recognized as having industry-leading user interface and state-ofthe-art technology. To complete this unique offering, EquiSoft also brings extensive experience in data migration through its subsidiary, Universal Conversion Technologies (UCT). Recipient of the 2016 Outstanding Service Provider Award by Wealth Professionals, EquiSoft has a growing team of nearly 250 specialized resources based in Canada, the US, Latin America, South Africa and India.
“Because we have such an impressive track-record using DCA
as our flagship, our tool is now recognized on the market as a
proven, cost-effective toolset, that can dramatically reduce the effort
and risk associated to any system migration.”
Rae Albertini, President of UCT
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