Automating Web Services Development: In addition to greatly simplifying Web services development, autogeneration of program code based on visual design ensures that code is written consistently across an entire project, since it’s produced according to industry standards and globally defined

EDI Mapping: Altova MapForce allows you to map EDI messages to and from XML, databases, flat files, Excel 2007, and Web services. Full support for the UN/EDIFACT, ANSI X12, and Health Level 7 (HL7) standards means that you can seamlessly integrate this data with other systems to meet the changing demands of business partners and customers, internal requirements, and global data transmission mandates.

XML Mapping: Altova MapForce provides visual XML mapping functionality for instantly transforming XML data from one XML format to any another XML format based on XML Schema or namespace aware DTDs, and can even generate an XML mapping component from an XML instance file.

XSLT & XQuery: Once you have finished defining your XML mapping and data processing rules, you can load an XML instance document as a source file, and the built-in MapForce Engine will instantly convert the data into the new format. MapForce also autogenerates XSLT 1.0 or 2.0 stylesheets for use in transforming data in multiple XML documents based on the source schema to conform to the target XML Schema.

Database Mapping: Altova MapForce includes support for database mapping, including mapping between of database data and XML, flat files, EDI, Excel 2007, XBRL, Web services, and even other database formats.

Simple Data Integration: MapForce allows you to easily associate target and source data structures using drag and drop functionality. Advanced data processing filters and functions can be added via a built-in function library, and you can use the visual function builder to combine multiple inline and/or recursive operations in more complex data integration scenarios.