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Cavalry Banking was converting its core applications to a new host processor. Cavalry turned to Kodak Service & Support to determine if their data -- stored in a proprietary format -- could be converted into a format that was compatible with the new applications.

Cavalry Banking is a community bank with corporate headquarters in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Cavalry offers banking, insurance, and investment services to customers in nine locations throughout the region.

Cavalry Bank was in the process of converting all their core applications -- including check imaging and report archiving -- to a new host processor. The bank's former check imaging and report archiving solution stored information in proprietary formats. This made it difficult to import the data into their new applications. Cavalry contacted Kodak Service & Support to determine if the data could be converted into a format that could be imported into their new applications.

The biggest challenge in the process was the sheer size of the data that needed converting. Cavalry processes around 50,000 items per day and has also backed up the same number of check images since 1992. That meant some 10 years worth of data -- over 35 million images -- needed converting and importing.

Kodak was able to decrypt the proprietary storage methods of Cavalry's data from the old products so it could be imported into their new applications.

Kodak converted all of Cavalry's check image and report data onto over 150 DVDs containing at least 250,000 check images each. The converted data on these DVDs was used to import into Cavalry's new host procesor -- the Premier Image Director from Fiserv/ITI. This allowed all employees at their main office and branches to access archived check images and reports from the host processor.

"We were able to import all our old data from the old systems, which prevented us from having to run two systems for accesing check images and reports," said Cannon Loughry, Vice President, Chief Information Officer.

It was very important to both Cavalry's employees and customers that they have access to all information on one platform. "We implemented one application that consolidated document imaging, check imaging, COLD reports, and customer statements into one platform. Now anyone in the organization can do customer research, not just customer service, and it can be done in a single place," said Loughry.

He added, "Kodak responded quickly to all our concerns and came in well under our budget for the project. It was a seamless process."