Data Conversion
EverStar Data Conversion service is here to help meet new regulatory requirements.
Data Conversion and Migration
When systems change, merge, or face new regulatory requirements, the data inside them has to change too. That work — converting formats, restructuring fields, migrating records across platforms — is where projects succeed or stall.
EverStar helps organizations plan and execute data conversion and migration projects across industries and system environments. We bring over 25 years of experience handling complex, high-stakes data work where accuracy and continuity are essential.
Regulatory-Driven Conversions
Some of the most pressing data conversion projects are not optional. They are driven by regulatory deadlines that require organizations to restructure data they have stored the same way for years.
- Financial Services: ISO 20022 Address Compliance
RTP and wire payment transactions now require customer address data to be broken into discrete structured components — street, city, state, postal code, country — rather than stored as a single unstructured field. For institutions with legacy data across multiple systems, this is a meaningful conversion effort with a hard deadline.
- Food Manufacturing: FSMA Traceability Requirements
The FDA’s Food Safety Modernization Act now requires food manufacturers and distributors to maintain detailed traceability records — lot numbers, supplier data, shipping and receiving information — in formats that can be produced quickly during a recall. Many companies find that their existing data is stored in ways that do not meet the new requirements, triggering conversion and restructuring projects across ERP and supply chain systems.
- Healthcare: Data Standardization and Interoperability
Regulatory requirements around electronic health records, claims data, and interoperability standards continue to evolve. Healthcare organizations frequently need to convert legacy data formats to meet current requirements and enable system-to-system data exchange.
System-Driven Conversions
Even without a regulatory trigger, data conversion and migration work arises whenever organizations change or upgrade their core systems.
- ERP Upgrades and Replacements
Moving from one ERP platform to another — or upgrading to a current version — almost always requires converting legacy data to new formats and structures. Trading partner data, item masters, customer records, and historical transactions rarely map cleanly from one system to the next without transformation work.
- Mergers, Acquisitions, and Consolidations
When organizations combine, their data environments combine too. Reconciling customer records, vendor data, and transaction histories across systems with different structures is a conversion and migration challenge that determines how quickly the new organization can operate as one.
- Legacy System Retirement
Retiring an aging platform requires extracting and converting the data it holds before the system goes dark. That work is often underestimated until it begins.
How We Engage
We assess the source data, define the conversion logic, and manage the process through validation and go-live. Our principals are involved directly, and we are transparent about scope, risk, and timeline from the first conversation.
Speak with a Data Conversion Architect
Speak with a senior practitioner about your conversion or migration project. We will listen before we recommend a solution.