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History of Convergence Data Services

A Look into the Past

In 2000, Convergence Data Services got its start as Structured Content which was a unit of Hearst Business Media. Structured Content provided outsourced content development services as an outgrowth of Hearst Business Media’s business of providing content to the Pharmaceutical, Automotive and Electronics industries.  Structured Content performed several large content development projects and for one customer, produced a content database of one million records in less than a year.  Structured content also provided data management and classification consulting services.  These consulting projects lead to a need for software to assist with collaborative taxonomy development, data collection, organization, cleansing and publishing.  In 2002, Hearst decided to split the business to concentrate on outsourced content development while Convergence Data Services continued with consulting and software development.

Convergence's Strategic Partners

Convergence realizes the importance of partnering with other companies to help our customers optimize the value of our software and services. We will recommend our partners services when it comes to helping our customers solve specific business issues we don’t have direct experience handling. It’s our objective to ensure our partner’s success since this insures our success and most importantly our customer’s success.