Cloud computing continues to open new opportunities for enterprise companies to capitalize on one of their most valuable and often underappreciated assets: employee data, also known as “people” data. This is particularly true with the surging trend toward online programs for benefits administration, employee engagement, and learning and development.
Employee Data Management: New Horizons for Improving HR Business Practices
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The volume of data in the world is growing exponentially.
Streamlining the Data Conversion Process
*This week’s blog post is brought to you by Optis’ Senior Data Analyst, [Andy Kersh](https://www.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-kersh/22/263/743).*
In a previous [blog post](http://www.optis.com/blog/data-conversion-rundown) we discussed the basics of data conversions, the various types of conversions, and how to begin the data conversion process. Once a conversion is completed for a given source of data there are many details that can and should be learned.
Data Conversion Rundown
*This week's post is brought to you by Andy Kersh, Optis' Senior Data Analyst.*
Data conversion is a concept that’s been used for decades in the HR Tech realm. But, what *exactly* does it mean?
Simply put, data conversion is the transformation of data from one format to another. There are many types of data conversions - file type, database type, or even a whole system of data.