Content Management
Publishing Services
Creative Services
Legal BPO & KPO
 
 

Datamatics offers the entire gamut of services and processes for managing content throughout its life from creation to archival. We have Domain expertise in Legal, Financial, Educational, Regulatory and Scientific content and use technology as an aid towards delivering complete customer satisfaction.

These offerings can be used as a whole or piecemeal as fits in with the Customer’s requirements, and are outlined below –

Data Capture Services Context Addition
Data Conversion Composition Services
Repository Creation Editorial Services

Data Capture Services
 

Acquisition of data and conversion into electronic format e.g. Hard copy to PDF, Images to MS Word, quickly and cost effectively. Datamatics offers several solutions to capture data with very high accuracy like Scanning & Imaging (using High Speed High resolution printers from Panasonic, Fujitsu, HP, Avision), Keyboarding of full text, OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and Automated Data Capture. Datamatics is the only company in the world that assures 99.997% accuracy of all converted data.

 
Context Addition (Markup Services/Data Conversion)  

Context addition is a crucial step in the transformation of data into information. It involves inserting tags and metadata information that provides a consistent structure to the data as well as informational context. Datamatics has expertise in SGML, HTML, XML, OEB markup languages. We have also worked on a number of proprietary markup formats. Over the past decade, the Company has been providing services for data analysis, DTD design and markup.

Datamatics has a large number of highly trained resources for manual markup services. These resources, termed Knowledge Associates, are highly qualified and have specific domain knowledge in the legal, regulatory, finance and scientific fields.

For converting data from an existing markup format to a standard such as XML, we use automated conversion tools created by our in house Software Team using PERL, OMNIMARK scripts.

 
 
Data Conversion  
 
 
Composition Services  

This offering complements Datamatics’ core competency of applying technology to tackle various nuances of the Publishing workflow. The past several years’ experience in this business has helped us gain expertise in Line and Copy Editing (both Online and Offline), Proof reading, Pagination, Indexing, Language & Technical editing.

Some of the tools used are MS Word, MS Excel, Adobe Acrobat and plug-ins for MS Word like Math Type. We also have expertise in the usage of specialized tools like Adobe Frame Maker, 3B2, Quark Express, Folio, Adobe Acrobat Writer / Distiller, Adobe Photoshop, Pitstop, I-32 Featuring Editor, I-32 Forms Design.

 
 
Repository Creation Services
 

Datamatics has the expertise and experience in building extremely large data repositories, high volume legacy data conversion and archiving, indexing and abstracting. We have custom developed tools for repository creation and updation.

We have also built Document Management Systems and other content repositories with powerful search engines to retrieve the required data.

Data Delivery Services
These are focused towards making content available to target audiences via any delivery mechanism preferred by the Customer such as CD, Web and mobile devices.

 
 
Editorial Services  

Using automation to the maximum possible levels, Datamatics processes content feeds, applies a knowledge base of a trained resource pool of editors and domain experts, offers abstraction services and adds context (markup) data. We can then create repositories for this structured data and deliver it as composed pages ready for print or publish on the Internet. All this is in a dynamic environment with desired processing cycle time.

We also provide Overall Supervision or Project Management services, which would entail Coordination of all processes and people, Ensuring Time and Cost control, Quality metrics and Preview of documents before they go to print or publish.

SGML/XML Conversion Capabilities
Datamatics provides web-based solutions with competence in data markup for diverse types of content and file formats. We have more than a decade of experience in executing various projects for our customers around the globe in HTML, SGML, XML and other proprietary markup.

Datamatics approach to markup is the use of productivity aids to accelerate the process, as also increase the accuracy thereof. These aids are in the form of specialist computer program editors that enable customized markup based on the DTD. We have developed our own tools for conversions and these are constantly upgraded to meet the requirement of the day. Programmatic conversion is achieved by writing conversion scripts in Perl, Omnimark and most recently in Ruby and Python.

Datamatics has also migrated documents already marked-up using a certain standard to a document marked up in another standard. This reformatting or conversion of markup/ tagging is done again through a combination of specialist specifically developed computer software followed by necessary manual conversion and subsequent quality assurance.

Domain Specific Experience
Datamatics expertise extends to the following domains:
1.
Legal Text comprising of Legislative Instruments, CaseLaw, Administrative Databases, Commentaries, Public Records, etc.
2.
Scientific, Technical and Medical content with math, graphics and tables.
3.
Publishing houses publishing fiction, literary works, brochures and catalogs and other related products for online content as well as CD products.
4.
Educational material such as textbooks, courseware, question and answer papers, etc.

Datamatics effects conversions from all kinds of input formats namely paper / MS Word/ HTML / Pag600 / Quark / XPP / Word Perfect / proprietary markup etc. We have been successful in achieving turnaround times as low as 12 hours to suit our customers’ requirements.

Benefits/Features of Conversion Team
We have a strong team of well-trained engineers and support personnel with expertise in various areas associated with our conversion and markup activities.
We offer excellent facilities to train our employees with the latest in SGML/XML technology and client specific needs.
We specialize in data analysis and DTD design, defining specifications and documentation of DTDs.
We have worked with technically sensitive data and have conversion networks for markup and conversion engineers for writing programs in various scripting languages.
We have a dedicated team for testing all output and review our programs to achieve higher levels of accuracy (99.997% semantically accurate data in certain conversion projects).
Datamatics, primarily being a computer software company, employing over 1500 professionals, has the unique ability of being able to combine the development and implementation of computer software, specific to the Electronic Publishing business, with the actual mark-up of the content of documents.

Major or Distinctive conversion projects: Military Journals, Engineering journals, Financial Analysts, Automobile Companies, Travel Companies, Foreign language data capture & conversion (Spanish and German).