45 years of experience

2,500 global clients

10 PB new data archived each year

1500+ legacy tape drives and machines available for use

Data Digitization and Recovery

Ovation has extensive experience and success recovering and preserving data from compromised media.

After extensive research into detecting and recovering damaged data, we have developed custom equipment and techniques that revitalize and protect the valuable information it contains.

You can count on our reputation as a worldwide industry leader in data transcription for more than 40 years. We specialize in helping businesses unlock the knowledge held within outdated, legacy formats of any type. From handwritten pages and graphs to analog tape and digital drives, we can transcribe and reformat data of any kind to provide enhanced business value.

Our unmatched capabilities cover transcription, transmission, storage, and analysis of huge amounts of data in any format imaginable. Rely on our team of remediation experts to enhance your data and make it usable, no matter its age, format, or size. We can even correct or remove corrupt and inaccurate records by replacing, modifying, or deleting the affected data.

Benefits

Reliable

Rely on our experts who specialize in re-mastering seismic data and transcription. Ovation has been performing large-scale tape transcription and data recovery services for the oil and gas industry since 1976, transcribing more than 500,000 tapes and cartridges every year.

Bespoke Processing

Learn about our unique processing facilities that include a comprehensive inventory of historical equipment and proprietary equipment to read and recover data from every type of media.

Duplicate Data

Use Ovation expertise to duplicate your geophysical data for a second site, joint venture sharing, disaster recovery, risk management initiatives or any other duplication purpose.

International Reach

Take advantage of our international reach. With data service projects spanning 50 countries, our team is effective with cross-border projects, often mobilizing to the client’s country to perform data services.

Risk Reduction

Digitize fragile paper, film, tape and more to reduce the risk of loss from frequent handling, environmental exposure, theft, natural disasters and other unforeseen events.

Address Obsolescence

Recover content from obsolete media and file formats using specialist equipment and software before it’s too late.

Faithful Reproductions

Produce accurate, high‑quality digital surrogates with careful handling and quality control, supporting authenticity and confidence that digitized collections truly reflect the original materials.

Earlier Access

Move collections out of backlog and into use, enabling researchers, curators and communities to access cultural materials sooner without compromising preservation standards.

Unmatched Capabilities

Discover the Ovation difference. We offer unmatched capabilities in the transcription, transmission, storage, and analysis of huge amounts of data in any format imaginable.

Preserve & Enhance Value

Preserve and enhance the value locked within proprietary data with our customized recovery and remediation services that include cleansing, organizing, and migrating information using our unique combination of specialized equipment and skilled personnel.

Safeguard Data

Update and safeguard scientific data stored on obsolete legacy formats using our services to transcode them into easy-to-retrieve digital files.

Protect IP

Ensure that valuable intellectual property is never lost and can be monetized long into the future by relying on our distinctive strategies for data recovery and remediation.

We can transcribe your old tapes and unlock their hidden value

Learn more about tape transcription and the process involved

The Ovation Method

Our suite of customized solutions provides the full end-to-end data management environment at every stage of the data lifecycle. Liberate and integrate your data effectively with our expert guidance and proprietary technologies. Here is how it works:

Liberate and integrate your data effectively with our expert guidance and proprietary technologies. We work with the widest range of data formats. Audit, validate, and verify data types and quality. Create a digital inventory or evaluate and automate your inventory.

Discover

Use automated methods to transform data types of all kinds and in all formats into modern digital files.

Digitize

Use automated methods to transform data types of all kinds and in all formats into modern digital files.

Enhance

Leverage a simple, trusted, and efficient storage solution for mass data. Predictable capacity-based pricing with no hidden fees.

Store

Rely on a highly secure, scalable, on-demand network and powerful searching and orchestration tools to find and deliver your data at any time.

Access

Protect data integrity in an archival environment. Maintain data over time through preservation actions.

Preserve

Discover

Digitize

Preserve

Enhance

Store

Access

Our work in practice

How Can We Help You?

See how organizations apply Ovation’s services to real challenges using structured data to support discovery, compliance, preservation, and long-term access.