The arlanis Universal Data Converter can be used to manage the task of data integration. Starting point of each conversion is the business idea of the future integration task itself. Along with the idea you can model the conversion on a higher level perspective (Picture 1). As you can see, all relevant information is shown. This means which input sources are used, which outputs are necessary or on which way the data will travel between input and output. The UDC white board shows the data transformation in overview. This drawing is fully functional (but not in deep specified yet).

Needless to say, that all conversions, presented on the white board, are printable and could be saved as an image or HTML file. This means, during the design of your conversion you will automatically receive all the artifacts which are required for your documentation. Various input and output adapter are out-of-the-box provided. For instance: CSV, EDIFACT, RDBMS as well as SAP IDoc and COBOL. Those input and output adapter can be connected in different ways.

After definition of the higher level or business level of your conversion the technical data has to be assigned to each step (see picture 2). For this task special editors are shipped within the product.