Altova® SchemaAgent® 2008 - Upgrade from Altova® SchemaAgent® 2007

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Graphical XML Schema modeling and management tool. Altova SchemaAgent™ is a tool for modeling and managing advanced schemas and their components in enterprise workgroups. Visualize XML Schema relationships and construct complex schemas from distributed schema elements via its graphical design view. Now in addition to XML Schema files, you can also see schemas used as sources or targets in Altova MapForce® data mappings. The SchemaAgent client interface displays schema components and relationships in a graphical manner, allowing you to immediately visualize the connections between your information assets. Each schema is displayed in an expandable box with its components organized in a hierarchical tree. Relationships between schemas are indicated by color-coded lines connecting associated components.

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Altova SchemaAgent™ 2008 Release 2 Upgrade from Altova SchemaAgent™ 2007

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New features in SchemaAgent 2008 include:

• Support for viewing XSLT and WSDL files and their schema relationships - allows users visualize XSLT and WSDL files and their relationships with XML Schemas and other XML-related files.

What's new in SchemaAgent 2007 Release 3?

• Graphical display of XML instances – SchemaAgent now allows users to connect to and display XML instance documents – and their connections to XML Schemas and MapForce data mapping projects – in the graphical design view. This allows for a comprehensive view of data connections and interdependencies and allows developers to immediately see which XML instance(s) will be affected when a change is made to the corresponding XML Schema

SchemaAgent™ is a graphical schema administration tool that allows you to view a collection of schemas as a pool of resources. SchemaAgent also allows you to view schemas used as data sources and/or targets in Altova MapForce® data mapping designs.

SchemaAgent™ includes the SchemaAgent client and a SchemaAgent Server. The SchemaAgent Server is installed on one computer in your workgroup and can be configured to connect to any standard file repository on your network or on the Internet. Once the SchemaAgent Server is configured with your desired file paths, it builds an internal map of the relationships between all schemas (.XSD) and MapForce mapping design files (.MFD) in the defined server paths. Any number of SchemaAgent clients may connect to the SchemaAgent Server to have access to all these schemas.

Alternatively, for users who don’t need to manage schemas in a team environment, the SchemaAgent client can stand alone and function without the SchemaAgent Server installed. This way, a single user can simply specify the required file paths and access XML Schemas and MapForce mappings directly in the SchemaAgent client.

Visualize Your Information Architecture

The SchemaAgent client interface displays schema components and relationships in a graphical manner, allowing you to immediately visualize the connections between your information assets. Each schema is displayed in an expandable box with its components organized in a hierarchical tree. Relationships between schemas are indicated by color-coded lines connecting associated components. The SchemaAgent design interface allows you to:

• Create, save, and print visual schema designs for organizing and managing schema collections intuitively
• View the structure of the source and/or target schemas of a MapForce data mapping design files and the relationships of these schemas with other schemas
• View the detailed structure of schema components such as global elements, attributes, complex types, simple types, foreign datatypes, and more
• View include/import/redefine (IIR) schema relationships indicated by color-coded lines and in greater detail in the component itself

Manage and Reuse Information Assets

In addition to viewing information about and associations between XML Schemas, SchemaAgent™ allows you to manage the relationships between schemas in a visual manner. SchemaAgent displays schemas and components as graphical objects and supports drag-and-drop functionality for updating or creating schema relationships, making it easy to manage and reuse your schema assets. SchemaAgent only presents you the schema management functions that are applicable in a given context, so it’s next to impossible to make an error. The intelligent SchemaAgent management features allow you to:

• Manage single or multiple schemas as schema components
• Automatically create, update, or delete IIR references between schemas with simple drag and drop functionality
• Propagate changes made in one schema (e.g., rename or move) to all other schemas that reference it in the workspace
• Access all schemas and schema components in the SchemaAgent search path while editing schemas in the Schema View of Altova XMLSpy®

These features greatly reduce the complexity associated with schema development and enable the efficient, standards-conformant reuse of information assets.

Support

Altova provides free technical support for all customers for 30 days after the date of purchase.

If you wish to receive priority technical support beyond that date and receive software updates throughout the year, you need to purchase a "Support and Maintenance Package (SMP)" for your software. The Support & Maintenance Package is available in a one- or two-year plan. Please note that you can only add Support and Maintenance Package (SMP) to a product at the time you purchase the license (or up to 30 Days after you purchase).

Services included:

Priority Technical Support - Priority Technical Support is provided via a Web-based support form. Altova will respond within 1-2 business days during European or US business hours (MO-FR, 8am UTC - 10pm UTC, Austrian and US holidays excluded).

Free Minor & Major Versions - You will receive all maintenance releases and major software versions that are released during your Support Period. Updates that you receive cover the specific edition of the product that you have purchased and typically include many additional features.

Maintenance - During the Support Period you may also report any software problem or error to Altova using the same support process described above. If Altova determines that a reported reproducible material error in the software exists and significantly impairs the usability and utility of the software, Altova agrees to use reasonable commercial efforts to correct or provide a usable work-around solution in an upcoming maintenance release or update, which is made available at certain times at Altova's sole discretion.

Support Period

The Support & Maintenance Package that is currently offered with Altova products covers the product for which it is being purchased for a period of either one or two years. The support period begins on the day you purchase the product license and extends for a period of exactly 12 or 24 months, depending on whether you purchase the one- or two-year option. SMP may be purchased at the time you purchase a product license and during the 30 day period immediately thereafter. You may also renew an existing SMP for an additional one- or two-year period. During the Support Period, you will receive Support & Maintenance services from Altova as defined in section "6. SUPPORT & MAINTENANCE" in the Altova end-user license agreement ("EULA") or in the SMP Terms of Use, as applicable.