Protech has considerable experience in conversion of code and data and has personnel with skills in various conversion tools, which will help carryout a conversion of any size effectively. The methodology Protech employs in converting code and data is briefly explained as shown.

Inventory Analysis

• Determine object inventory
• Ensure proper change management procedures

Data Mapping / Collection

• Create baseline data sources
• Create mapping documents between source and target
• Identify and extract information from free-form data, which includes names, address lines, dates, etc

Data Analysis

• Create reports which detail the quality of the data
• Provide software for cleansing of data prior to data conversion real-time or in batch
• Provide details to eliminate duplicates in large databases

Data Mining

With the introduction of the Internet and the need to share, communicate, and analyze data among business partners, Protech has found that our clients benefit from the development of a data warehouse to store demographic, current and past activity information regarding business operations and transactions. The data warehouse:

• Provides users with the ability to retrieve meaningful data
• Improves business operation
• Becomes the enterprise hub for data storage and reporting, and the first step in providing data mining capability

Why Protech?

Protech's Federal Incentive Reporting Management (FIRM) application won a "Best Practice" award from the United States Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE). The reporting tool is modifiable to meet reporting needs of many federal, state, and local government agencies.  Protech provides:

• Award winning reporting systems
• Data at a state, regional, and local level
• Verification and validation of data
• On-line and mandatory formats
• Mandatory reporting
• Local reporting for individual office units

System Architecture

With the advent of OLAP technology, Protech is developing data mining tools for our customers, which allows them to determine their own data parameters and to access warehouse data through their local server.  This permits the analysis of data previously inaccessible and unreported.  Protech's system architecture provides.

• Empowerment to managers, caseworkers, and other staff to create their own reports to manage operations and caseloads of services
• Data at a state, regional and local level
• Elimination of the limitations of predefined reports produced by Legacy Systems

Infrastructure Analysis & Planning

• Creation of a data warehouse
• Customers can determine their own reporting parameters
• Have true ad hoc reporting capabilities
• Managing and reporting