Aspect can help you ensure that your data is clean and free of character set data integrity issues. Data utilized from international sources, or applications utilizing different types or versions of platform architecture, may not be passing data to the database correctly due to conflicting character sets. Conflicting character sets exchanged between front end and back-end systems can result in corrupted data, such as incorrect character replacement values, truncated data, or missing or lost data. Corrupted data can seriously impact your compliance with SOX or FDA regulations. Aspect utilizes a three step process to research, analyze, and repair any character set issues.

Step One: Analyze Data and Environment – an Aspect consultant will identify and research all data sources, analyze the application and database configuration, and determine if bad data exchange is occurring.

Step Two: Repair – Aspect consultants use sophisticated tools to determine the extent of your character set issues leading to data loss or corruption, apply the correct character set repair method, and load cleaned data into your database.

Step Three: Remediation – Aspect consultants work with you and any data source vendors or applications to fix the origins of bad data at the source, and help you define processes to manage data input going forward. As a result, Aspect can ensure the integrity of the exchange and storage of data as it moves between applications and databases, and take the steps necessary to ensure that character set issues do not continue to occur.