Excel Data Mapping to Update Existing Documents
Excel began life as a simple spreadsheet tool. Over time, support for rich text styling options, built-in charts, and copy and paste formatting features has led many enterprises to create reports in...
View ArticleValidating Data Transformation
Software developers and other data professionals often need to transform data from one format to another. These transformations can be simple one-to-one conversions or may require more complex...
View ArticleAutomatically Convert EDI to XML
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) has proven to be a durable business-to-business communication technology in use today with history dating to the 1960s and even earlier. Efficient EDI data encoding...
View ArticleData Mapping with XSLT3 Math Functions
XSLT3 adds trigonometry and other advanced math functions, new formatting functions, functions to collect environment variables, and more, extending XSLT and XSLT2 XML transformation standards. Data...
View ArticleTransforming and Converting Protobuf
MapForce supports mapping protocol buffers (Protobuf) to and from other structured data formats as mapping sources or targets. In the constant quest for more efficient ways to transfer, manipulate, and...
View ArticleHow to Debug XSLT and XQuery
Nothing’s more frustrating than getting unintended results from an XSLT or XQuery transformation and having to spend hours tracking down the issue – especially if you’ve inherited the project from...
View ArticleHow to Convert Data in MapForce [Video]
Altova MapForce offers a powerful, yet easy-to-use, approach to converting and transforming data. Whether you need to write XML to a database, convert JSON to EDI, or map Excel to multiple different...
View ArticleHow to Create a Chained Data Transformation
Data mapping plays a vital role in modern data-driven organizations, enabling efficient data management and integration. Altova MapForce is a powerful, graphical data mapping tool that supports...
View ArticleAI-based support request sentiment analysis using MapForce and GPT-4
Automated sentiment analysis of text, such as user reviews, has historically been a challenge. Because of the myriad intricacies of natural language, systems faced difficulties in analyzing context...
View ArticleAI-based Database Image Classification with Altova MapForce
One of the most common examples of AI in our everyday lives is facial recognition. Facial recognition is the process of identifying or verifying a person’s identity based on their face. Facial...
View ArticleWeb Interface Simplifies Automation of Data Transformations
FlowForce Server is a new product designed to provide automation of data transformations performed by dedicated high-speed servers. FlowForce Server can start jobs based on a variety of triggers, runs...
View ArticleAutomate Data Mapping and Transformation with FlowForce Server
Altova FlowForce Server, launched on April 29, 2013, includes numerous enhancements over earlier beta releases and one of the most exciting new features is the implementation of StyleVision Server. Now...
View ArticleCustomizing a FlowForce Server Job
In our earlier post titled Automate Data Mapping and Transformation with FlowForce Server, we created a job called SimpleMapAndTransform to automate data mapping with MapForce Server and creation of...
View ArticleTaming Bad Input Data with FlowForce Server
Whenever you accept data from an outside source you risk encountering errors. We have blogged about this phenomenon in the past in Expect the Unexpected – Altova MissionKit Solves a Number Format...
View ArticleDownload Example Files for FlowForce Server, MapForce, and StyleVision
In response to an interested reader’s suggestion, the Altova MapForce mapping files and StyleVision stylesheet we deployed to FlowForce Server for the job described in the blog post Taming Bad Input...
View ArticleXML Wildcard Data Mapping and Transformation in MapForce
MapForce 2014 now supports mapping of XML wildcards that create a designed-in extension mechanism for XML Schemas, implemented as <xs:any> or <xs:anyAttribute>. Consider this XML fragment...
View ArticleNew Data Integration Whitepaper Now Available
The data engulfing enterprises today comes from many seemingly unrelated sources. Collecting, refining, and assimilating all this information, and being flexible enough to accept new data formats and...
View ArticleNew Support for XPath/XQuery 3.1, WS-Security, and More Debut in R3
Release 3 of the Version 2015 Altova MissionKit desktop developer tools and Altova server software products is now available with updated standards support, customer requested features, and innovative...
View ArticleData Mapping Files with XML Mixed Content
As more specialized data is adapted for delivery on demand to mobile devices with smaller screens, documents with complex structures can be a challenge. Fortunately, MapForce, Altova’s graphical data...
View ArticleNew JSON Schema Editor and Data Mapping Debugger Debut in Altova Version 2016
We are excited to announce details of the latest release of Altova MissionKit desktop developer tools and server software products. Version 2016 includes full Windows 10 compatibility and updated...
View ArticleInteractive Debugger for Data Integration Projects
MapForce 2016 introduces a revolutionary data mapping debugger that lets developers working on data integration projects examine data mapping output step by step to diagnose and perfect projects of any...
View ArticleApplying Data Mapping Patterns
Altova MapForce includes powerful mapping components that correspond to design patterns for data transformation requirements. Analyzing a data mapping challenge up front and following a few...
View ArticleFive Not-to-Miss Features in Altova’s Latest Product Release
I’m excited to reveal some details of today’s Release 2 of Altova MissionKit 2016 desktop developer tools and software products! v2016r2 introduces over 20 new features and updates to the Altova...
View ArticleData Mapping REST Web Services
MapForce 2016 Release 2 includes expanded functionality for Web Services data mapping, providing robust support for REST Web services. MapForce accepts XML or JSON as the Web service response, allows...
View ArticleXBRL Data Mapping: WIP Taxonomy
The usefulness of the XBRL standard reaches far beyond SEC requirements for filing financial statements. Organizations such as XBRL.US and XBRL International are working to develop XBRL taxonomies and...
View ArticleFaster EDI Data Translation
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) standards accelerate commerce worldwide by allowing companies and other organizations – even those in different regions, using different languages and currencies – to...
View ArticleMapForce Offers Dynamic Access to Node Names
There are situations, especially when encountering loosely structured data, where you may want to map and transform structural components of a data stream along with content. MapForce 2017 includes a...
View ArticleEDI Data Mapping with MapForce
Any computer industry standard that promotes reliability and clear communication between independent enterprises will have a long life. EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) originated in the 1960s to...
View ArticleJSON Data Mapping and Transformation with MapForce
JSON is a popular format for transferring data between systems thanks to its simple markup, small footprint, and heritage based on the JavaScript programming language. MapForce supports JSON as both an...
View ArticleA Typical MapForce Server Use Case
Envision a manufacturing company that controls costs by exploiting a just-in-time assembly process with a very low supply of parts inventory on hand. New customer orders are logged in a sales database...
View ArticleMapForce Server Accelerator Edition Achieves a New Level of Data...
MapForce Server automates recurring execution of data mappings and transformations designed and tested using Altova MapForce. Every day, MapForce Server is employed in business communication, financial...
View ArticleData Mapping NCPDP SCRIPT
EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) standards allow participants with different roles in an industry to communicate clearly and rapidly, and date back to the earliest implementations of electronic...
View ArticleTop Five Features in Altova’s Latest Release
Release 2 of the Altova Version 2018 product line introduces a host of new features and updates, and even a brand-new product. Let’s take a look at the top five reasons you won’t want to wait to...
View ArticleNode Functions Simplify Mapping Hierarchical Data Structures
MapForce node functions simplify mapping hierarchical data such as XML nodes or CSV, JSON, EDI, or database fields by permitting users to define a data processing function at the node level and apply...
View ArticleGet Sharp with Altova’s Latest Release
Altova Software Version 2019 introduces over 20 new features to help you sharpen your development game – starting with support for high-res monitors in both XMLSpy and UModel. There are also tools for...
View ArticleMapping Structured Data with Enhanced Node Functions
We’ve reported previously on support for node functions that simplify mapping structured data by eliminating need to copy-paste a function multiple times into a mapping. Repeating the same function...
View ArticleDatabase Tracing to Log Changes Made by a Data Mapping Project
Database administrators and other data professionals often want to maintain a record of changes in critical databases, especially when updates are made by automated scripts or other operations....
View ArticleDatabase Mapping with Database Exception Handling
Critical business processes depend on reliable data and database administrators and other data analysts want to be confident in the integrity of information stored in database tables. During automated...
View ArticleHandling HTTP Errors in Web Service Data Mappings
Data integration projects that include information from external Web services may be vulnerable to HTTP errors when retrieving remote data. When data mappings run under automated control it’s...
View ArticleHandle HTTP Errors During Automated Data Integration
Data analysts and other professionals often need to generate real-time data through automated execution of data mappings that request Web services and save the results. During automated execution it’s...
View ArticleData Mapping JSON Lines
The JSON data format continues to evolve as an open standard as it is creatively applied to new data interchange requirements. JSON Lines, defined at http://jsonlines.org/, is a convenient text format...
View ArticleHow to Convert Legacy Text Files [Video]
It’s a common requirement to convert non-standard or legacy text files to or from structured data formats like XML, JSON, and relational databases. However, many times legacy text files are not in a...
View ArticleNew Data Integration Tools
Altova MissionKit tools offer numerous ways to connect to, query, and integrate data from disparate sources. With multiple product releases each year, we’re constantly working to deliver increased...
View ArticleWeb Service Data Integration
In a previous post we wrote that every data integration and reporting task needs to start with a clear understanding of the source data. Using grid view in XMLSpy, the industry-leading XML and JSON...
View ArticleData Mapping Binary Objects
Binary objects are difficult to manage in databases. They are large, their content is not human readable, and they can contain bytes of data easily misinterpreted as control characters. Even the data...
View ArticleData Mapping Binary Objects – Part 2
Binary objects – BLOBs — can be cumbersome to manage in databases. In an earlier post we described a MapForce data mapping to insert binary objects into a database with generated metadata to identify...
View ArticleNew XML Grid and More in v2021r2
In the latest release of Altova desktop developer tools and server software products, we’re introducing a completely rebuilt XML Grid View, support for XSLT3 for XML data mapping, statistics and...
View ArticleAI Integration & PDF Data Mapping in Version 2024
Version 2024 of Altova Software introduces brand new AI Assistants in multiple products as well as long-awaited support for PDF data integration in MapForce. Other features include Markdown editing...
View ArticleExtract Data for PDF Mapping
MapForce, Altova’s award-winning data mapping tool, now supports PDF input in data integration and ETL workflows. The powerful MapForce PDF Extractor makes it easy to define rules for extracting PDF...
View ArticleHow to Create Batch Data Mapping Projects
A common requirement in data processing is batch data mapping, especially in the context of data transformation and integration. It involves converting data in batches rather than processing...
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