Office Convertor
Overview
The recent release of Office 2007 with its enhanced functionality and integration has resulted in businesses looking at adopting the software, but what about the existing data? How do you know if your Excel spreadsheets or Access databases that run your business are going to work correctly?
The Camwood Office Data Assessment is a standardised service offering which is designed to provide customers with an indicative view of the size of the Office data challenge and how to remediate the data.
The types of issues that will be assessed include:
- Unsupported VBA syntax.
- Hidden and deprecated commands.
- File links.
- Unsupported project references.
- Invalid range names.
- Dysfunctional charting commands.
- Changed file security methods.
Benefits of the Office Data Assessment include:
- Understand the scale of the Office data used in the estate.
- Understand the scale of files with upgrade issues.
- Identify the age of the data in the estate.
- Agree an approach to remediate the data.
- Assessment Approach.
To facilitate the service Camwood recommend an initial engagement meeting where Camwood Professional Services staff walkthrough the complete engagement process and establish the client's individual critical success factors.
Perform a non-invasive sweep of the customers file shares Camwood will understand the number of files identified as Office productivity data. Camwood will then initiate a deep-scan on a sample of approximately 30,000 data-files looking for potential compatibility errors.
With a summary report produced Camwood will form a detailed discussion as to the size and impact of the data challenge and discuss a recommended approach to remediate the data.
