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Rank: Newbie
Joined: 5/4/2013
Posts: 9
Location: Chicago
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Hello Altova Team.
I have been playing around with Altova products. We do have BizTalk in our environment already and it is a very powerful platform for repeat transactions.
In my new project I am responsible from moving data from one ERP to another. BizTalk + BT Rules Engine + XSLT is perfect for this... but might be overkill, since this will be a one shot deal and I would like to involve the business analysts as much as possible in the process. This means that the tools have to be friendly to non-devs.
Can you help me choose Altova as the tool of choice for my next project?
Thanks
Chris
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Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 12/13/2005
Posts: 2,856
Location: Mauritius
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You are obviously thinking of mapping data from one format to another - all you need is Altova MapForce. It is as user friendly as one can imagine.
I would recommend not to restrict yourself to XSLT, especially not to XSLT1 supported by BizTalk, because it is VERY limited. Use MapForce with any other target language (at the very least XSLT 2, best of all - BuiltIn), and you will love it.
If you ever need to automate your mappings - you can do one step further and look at the powerful FlowForce automation server, which perfectly fits the MapForce server. But the nice thing about all this - you can postpone looking at servers as long as you want - at the beginning MapForce is all you need.
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Rank: Newbie
Joined: 5/4/2011
Posts: 2
Location: Green Bay, WI
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In my organization, I need to use Biztalk Server. It's the way we send/receive data from our ERP system and send/receive it from outside trading partners. However, I agree the transformation capacity of Biztalk is horrible because it only supports XSLT 1.0. I have been using MapForce to build my transformations and building a wrapper class so Biztalk calls the wrapper class to invoke the transformation.
I see FlowForce provides a means to automate the transformations, even as a webservice. This is awesome because I can definetely call a web service in a Biztalk Orchestration. However, the FlowForce product doesn't seem to support an inbound stream to a Mapforce transformation. It supports inbound streams, but not as an input to the transformation. Does anyone have a way to get FlowForce to connect inbound XML data as a stream to a Mapforce Transformation?
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Rank: Advanced Member
Joined: 12/13/2005
Posts: 2,856
Location: Mauritius
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Did you look under FlowForce Stream Functions?
http://manual.altova.com/FlowForceServer/stepresultexpressions.htm
The function as-file is pretty much what you are looking for - it takes a stream and creates a temp file out of it, which can be passed as input to MapForce Server.
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Rank: Newbie
Joined: 6/27/2024
Posts: 1
Location: Indonesia
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Altova offers several products that could be useful for ERP migration, even for users who aren't developers. One product that stands out is Altova MapForce.
MapForce is a data mapping and integration tool that allows users to visually map data from a variety of sources, including databases, XML, JSON, EDI, and more. It provides an intuitive, drag-and-drop interface that can simplify complex data transformations and integrations, making it accessible to non-developers. For ERP migration projects, Altova MapForce can help by providing a straightforward way to connect, transform, and move data between old and new ERP systems without requiring extensive programming knowledge.
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