Altova MapForce Enterprise Edition Releases

Released: Oct 24, 2023

Updates in 2024

Features

  • MapForce PDF Extractor - Added support for PDF input. The new MapForce PDF Extractor makes business data locked in PDFs available for data mapping, data integration, and ETL processes.
    • The MapForce PDF Extractor is an easy-to-use utility that allows you to quickly define the structure of a PDF document and extract data from it. Then, that PDF data can be accessed for further transformation and conversion to other formats such as XML, JSON, databases, Excel, and so on, in MapForce.
    • You...

Released: Sep 8, 2023

Updates in Altova MapForce Enterprise Edition

Features

MapForce is now AI-ready - Since many AI systems, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, are available via API, it is immediately possible to integrate their functionality in data transformation projects in MapForce. Using built-in, no-code tools to define web service requests in MapForce, it’s easy to set up calls to an API, including the OpenAI API, Azure OpenAI API or AWS AI Services, to enable AI-powered data processing in any data mapping project.

Applications for AI-powered MapForce data...

Released: Apr 12, 2023

Updates in 2023 Release 2

Features

  • Support for VDA EDI messages - VDA stands for Verband der Automobilindustrie, the German Automotive Industry Association. VDA EDI messages are used for sending planning schedule information between customers and suppliers. Though this legacy format is no longer being maintained by a standards body, many companies in the automotive industry still use the messages for information exchange. MapForce users may need to map and convert between VDA messages and other EDI formats, XML...

Released: Dec 12, 2022

Updates in 2023 SP1

Fixes

Excel file functionality

  • MapForce crashes updating customer Excel file.

Code Generation

  • Executing generated C# code is much slower than the Output view of MapForce - mapping specific.

IDE GUI

  • Text can be overdrawn repeatedly in certain dialogs using Light or Dark Theme.

Released: Oct 19, 2022

Updates in 2023

Features

  • Altova XML Schema Manager
    • Provides a centralized way to install and manage standard XML Schemas for use with MapForce and all Altova XML-enabled applications.
    • Automatically select any required dependencies.
    • Once a schema is installed, it’s available for use with any Altova XML-enabled product (MapForce, MapForce Server, XMLSpy, RaptorXML Server, etc.).
    • You can also open the XML Schema Manager to browse the schemas already installed on your system.
    • Altova will update available schema...

Released: Mar 8, 2022

Updates in 2022 Release 2

Features

  • Added support for MongoDB clusters - Support for NoSQL databases, including MongoDB and CouchDB, was added to MapForce 2022. Release 2 now provides additional support for MongoDB clusters. In contrast to a single-server MongoDB database, a MongoDB cluster allows the database to either horizontally scale across many servers with sharding or to replicate data to increase performance and availability. MapForce can now connect to MongoDB clusters as well as single-server databases.
  • Added...

Released: Oct 27, 2021

Updates in 2022

Features

  • Support for NoSQL databases - Added native support for MongoDB and Apache CouchDB, two of the most popular NoSQL databases.
    • MongoDB and CouchDB store data in BSON (binary JSON) and JSON documents, respectively. For mapping in MapForce, a schema is required. Users can either point to an existing JSON Schema for the NoSQL collections being mapped or have MapForce auto-generate a JSON Schema based on all or a selection of the documents in the NoSQL collection being mapped.
  • Support for...

Released: Jun 1, 2021

Updates in 2021 Release 3

Features

  • Support for the latest JSON Schema versions - MapForce now supports the two latest versions, 2019-09 and 2020-12, for mapping to or from JSON data structures.

Released: Mar 4, 2021

Updates in 2021 Release 2

Features

  • Support for XSLT 3 generation - Starting with this version, developers can choose XSLT 3.0 in addition to 1.0 or 2.0 when selecting a data transformation language for XML mappings.
  • C# code gen for Microsoft .NET Core and .NET 5 - When generating program code to implement data mapping projects, developers can now select .NET Core or .NET 5 as target frameworks for C# generation. This adds to existing support for .NET Framework projects.
  • Updated support for IBM DB2 for iSeries - Support...

Released: Oct 14, 2020

Updates in 2021

Features

  • Added support for SWIFT messages (including ISO 15022) - SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications) is a global provider of financial messaging services. MapForce now allows mapping SWIFT data to or from any other MapForce-supported format, including databases, XML, JSON, other EDI formats, and more.
  • Conversion of EDI to XML without mapping - MapForce can now convert EDI straight to XML with one click - without the need for specifying a target XSD or performing...