The major disadvantage of doing so is that the data formats required by the two packages are very different.

To date, the industry has been operating on closed, proprietary data formats.

One obvious way to minimize this problem is to reduce the number of different data formats.

For the communication, the following data format must be used:

As anyone who has done much work in the academic or research world knows, standard data formats are sometimes hard to come by.

It was designed to be compatible for all data formats.

One scientific data format was for use at the two highest bit rates.

Lifting the data to a common data format is thus the first step.

In these cases a physical transformation process may be required since the underlying data format can change significantly.

Some of its practices and data formats mirror ones from Windows.