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Conversion and Maintenance Solutions

Rapid Web-enabling of legacy content

Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) enables clients to quickly upgrade their legacy systems to derive maximum benefits from a Web-enabled learning environment, in the minimum time. Our offerings include:

Technology/Platform Conversion or Migration

  • Conversion and feature enhancement of Java/.NET Web sites/applications—based on legacy technology/small database/small userbase and concurrency—to enterprise version/large database/large userbase and concurrency
  • Convert from client-server to Web-based architecture
  • Convert DTD to schemas

Document/Data Conversion

  • Conversion of PDF/Quark/Structured Word/Excel to XML or XHTML
  • Extraction of data from databases and conversion to XML

Course Conversion

  • Conversion and porting of SCORM-compliant courses from an LMS, e.g., Saba, to another
  • Conversion of HTML/DHTML-based courseware to Flash or sprucing up legacy HTML to richer AJAX-based applications
  • Macromedia Director to Flash for Web hosting

Medium Conversion

  • Conversion of content from one delivery medium to another, e.g., CD to Web; Web to companion CD; or Web to Mobile

Key Clients

  • McGraw-Hill
  • Granada
  • Houghton Mifflin
  • eCollege

Learnwise

Learnwise is a virtual learning environment for secondary and higher education in the UK co-developed by Granada Learning and the University of Wolverhampton. TIS extended this from ASP to a fully managed J2EE-based Web environment.

Automated Conversion

TIS automated the extraction of assessment test items from structured MS Word-based question banks to QTI-compliant XML files at Houghton Mifflin. TIS also extracted legacy data from Sybase and ported onto their Flash assessment engine.

Passkey

McGraw-Hill had a Client-Server based VC++ Application, Passkey, for K-12 students. TIS converted this into a J2EE-based online subscription service.