Most legacy check archive applications deployed in the ’90s use WORM optical storage. Due to the rising cost of managing data stored on aging systems, a growing number of banks are moving to newer archive technology. Because of the long retention time characteristic of check archives, the entire archive contents (check images and metadata) need to be migrated. The newer systems use different storage technologies, hardware platforms, and data archive management applications than the legacy ones, thus making data migration a non-trivial process.
Data Strategies has developed unique tools and processes to perform the off-line migration of checks archived by most legacy systems to newer check archive systems. Our company has successfully migrated billions of checks for a number of financial institutions.
The check conversion process encompasses the following phases:
- Project technical assessment: This is directed to identify all project requirements linked to specific version(s) of the legacy system, check archive configuration, check indexing approach, customer specified filter(s), and any other unique aspect of the conversion project.
- Customization and optimization of the conversion process based on the above requirements.
- Reception and inventory of media and any collateral material (e.g. DB reports, etc.).
- Preprocessing of input media to create a directory of the contents, if not available from another source (e.g. Data base).
- Concurrent extraction and conversion of check data (images and indexing data) from input media and recording of converted check data onto the output media. The conversion process can include filtering of checks based on customer specified criteria.
- Quality Assurance and process auditing.
- Delivery to the customer of the output media with converted data and any associated information (e.g. auxiliary files, database, etc.) in the target archive format or a form suitable for importing into the target system.
The current version of the CheckGenie tool supports check data extraction and conversion from any of the following legacy systems:
To any of the following target systems:
