Today, the ability to seamlessly exchange information between internal business units, customers, and partners is vital for success; yet most organizations store and exchange information in a variety of dissimilar formats, such as those used by EDI systems, flat files, databases, and XML-based applications. To efficiently leverage existing investments and interconnect business systems, organizations need the ability to map between these different data types and effectively convert their data in a standards-based, cost-effective manner.

Web services and custom data integration applications are two modern solutions that allow organizations to unify these disparate formats to enjoy the cost and competitive advantages of seamless information exchange. MapForce® 2007 uniquely lets you map data in an intuitive, visual manner. Then it auto-generates the program code or stylesheets required to implement your Web services and custom data integration applications server-side. MapForce® 2007 supports the following powerful functionality:

	Graphical data mapping		Executing and saving mapping output
	Bi-directional XML , database, EDI, Web services data mapping		Advanced data processing functions
	Mapping data to WSDL operations		Visual function builder creates functions
	Building Web services		Project view for organizing mappings
	Mapping multiple sources to multiple targets		Integration with Eclipse and Visual Studio
	Parsing flat files using FlexText™ utility		OLE and ActiveX controls
	XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery generation		And much more...
	Java, C#, C++ program code generation

The MapForce visual design paradigm means that you can create Web services and data integration applications - without having to manually write a single line of code.

For more information about MapForce® 2007, please follow the link below to visit the Altova website:

http://www.altova.com/products/mapforce/data_mapping.html