Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for decentralized data conversion. The present invention includes providing a server configured to be accessible over the Internet and receiving a payment from a user through a payment gateway module, the gateway module operated by the server. Additionally, the invention includes receiving a data source over the Internet into the server, transforming data in the data source to create converted data adapted to a target, the transformation directed by one or more integration objects configured to perform conversion steps, the integration objects in a hierarchical structure defining an order of execution, the transformation controlled by the server, and returning the transformed data over the Internet from the server. The present invention allows customers who would otherwise be unable to access powerful data conversion tools to convert data at a reasonable cost.

Abstract: A data conversion system, method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for applying source data a data target in a computing environment. There may be an extraction module for extracting source data and a conversion module for performing a data conversion process. The data conversion process is graphically configurable; stored and streamed in machine language; and includes integration objects, organized in a drag and drop hierarchical structure, including subordinate integration objects, wherein a property of an integration object may be set at a run time. There is a documentation generation module configured to display data mapping. The extraction module handles large records, parses records into sets in a single pass, permits visual analysis of source data, includes parse objects, permits creation of parse objects by click and drag, and creates key fields at run time.