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 | | June 17, 2008
Product Spotlight
DM Review
Altova announced the availability of Altova XMLSpy Version 2008 Release 2 (v2008r2). The latest release of XMLSpy provides many new enhancements to help users optimize their XML development processes, including support for very large files, multiple features for optimizing XSLT development, a new Find in Schemas window and much more.
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 | | June 13, 2008
An eye from the Tech·Ed show floor
SD Times
Altova announced that its MapForce graphical data mapping tool now can use data from Microsoft Excel 2007, which uses Ecma-standardized Office Open XML (OOXML).
Altova’s 2008 Release 2 products, including DiffDog, an XML differencing utility and synchronization tool, and its StyleVision stylesheet designer, have been OOXML compatible since they were released in April, said Alexander Falk, product marketing manager for Altova MapForce and StyleVision.
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 | | June 12, 2008
Software Review: XMLSpy 2008 From Altova
Blog Critics Magazine
If you work with XML with any regularity then you need to do yourself a favor and check out XMLSpy 2008. Right out of the box it will begin to save you time and money in making sure that your data is correct and allowing you to see your data in a whole new way. As you progress in your learning of XMLSpy 2008, you will find yourself using more and more of the toolset and becoming even more productive. I highly recommend XMLSpy 2008.
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 | | June 6, 2008
Altova Adds Support for Excel
Econtent Magazine
Altova, provider of XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, announced the availability of Altova MapForce Version 2008 Release 2 (v2008r2). The update to the MapForce graphical data mapping tool provides users with support for mapping Microsoft Excel 2007, which uses the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format, integration with and project generation for Visual Studio 2008, and support for data streams in MapForce generated code. Altova also provides support for working with OOXML in XMLSpy, StyleVision, and DiffDog.
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 | | June 5, 2008
Tech-Ed Developer Conference a Mixed Bag
Redmond Developer News
While the focus on dev tools and issues is a boon for developers and guys like me who watch this industry for a living, it's a mixed bag for vendors.
Alexander Falk, CEO of XML and data tools maker Altova, believes the quality of the audience is better than it was in previous Tech-Ed conferences. His problem: Altova markets high-volume, client-side tooling like XMLSpy, and he'd like to see more people exposed to Altova's newly released tools suite. He's hoping next week's IT conference makes up the difference.
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 | | June 3, 2008
Modernizing Your EDI Implementation with Altova MapForce
Code Project
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is a set of standards for structured e-commerce data and information exchange. EDI systems are designed to allow trading partners to exchange common documents such as purchase orders, invoices, insurance claims, etc., more efficiently by enabling computers to correctly interpret and process this data.
As both a concept and a technology, EDI has been in use, in one form or another, since the late 1960s, when many large companies were beginning to adopt in-house computer systems and networks to streamline their business functions. Unfortunately, while EDI has undoubtedly benefited from a broad array of recent technological advancements, this long and respectable history has a multitude of drawbacks, which can have a profound effect on early adopters attempting to integrate legacy systems with newer investments.
Altova’s data mapping tool, MapForce, provides strong support for the conversion and transformation of EDI formats, enabling businesses to reconcile their legacy formats with newer documentation, storage, and system requirements, while still adhering to conventional e-commerce transaction ordinances.
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 | | June 3, 2008
Altova Adds Support for Excel 2007 to MapForce
asp.netPRO
Altova announced the availability of Altova MapForce Version 2008 Release 2 (v2008r2). This latest update to the MapForce graphical data mapping tool provides users with new functionality, including support for mapping Microsoft Excel 2007, which uses the Office Open XML (OOXML) file format, integration with and project generation for Visual Studio 2008, support for data streams in MapForce generated code, and more.
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| | June 1, 2008
News Briefs
SD Times
Web services specialist Altova unveiled version 2008 release 2 of its software line. The version adds the ability to work with larger files in its XMLSpy editor and to create BPMN (business process modeling notation) diagrams in UModel.
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 | | May 2008
New Products Worthy of Your Attention
Database Trends & Applications
Altova, creator of XMLSpy, the industry-leading XML editor, and other popular XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, has announced the availability of Version 2008 Release 2 of its line of software tools. The new release adds a host of new features and enhancements to Altova’s product line, including support for working with very large files in XMLSpy, extended Office Open XML (OOXML) functionality across multiple products, and support for creating Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) diagrams in UModel.
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 | | May 15, 2008
JavaOne Wrap-Up: New Products from dotFX, Canoo, Coverity, Infragistics, More
Application Development Trends
The vendors were out in force at this year's show, with 137 exhibits and lots of product news. Here are a few under-reported vendor announcements that you should catch (no pun intended):
Beverly, Mass.-based Altova announced the availability of a new release of its XMLSpy. Version 2008 Release 2 of the company's flagship XML editor comes with enhancements aimed at helping users optimize their XML development processes.
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| | May 6, 2008
Altova Announces Version 2008 Release 2
Database Trends & Applications
Altova, creator of XMLSpy, the industry-leading XML editor, and other popular XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, has announced the availability of Version 2008 Release 2 of its line of software tools. The new release adds a host of new features and enhancements to Altova’s product line, including support for working with very large files in XMLSpy, extended Office Open XML (OOXML) functionality across multiple products, and support for creating Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) diagrams in UModel. “Office 2007 documents are becoming more prevalent and OpenXML has been adopted as an ISO standard,” Alexander Falk, president and CEO for Altova, told 5 Minute Briefing in a private interview.
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| | May 1, 2008
Altova Refreshes XML Suite
Redmond Developer News
Leading XML tools and utility maker Altova Inc. has upgraded its entire line. The updates, disclosed April 29, include fresh versions of XMLSpy, DatabaseSpy, MapForce and StyleVision tools, as well as the DiffDog file compare utility and UModel UML modeling tool.
Notable among the improvements to release 2 (R2) is updated support for the Microsoft Office Open XML (OOXML) file format, which in April was ratified by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) as a formal standard.
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| | April 29, 2008
Altova Announces Version 2008 Release 2 of its Software Product Line
asp.netPRO
Altova, creator of the XML editor XMLSpy and other XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, announced the availability of Version 2008 Release 2 (v2008r2) of its line of software tools. The release of v2008r2 adds a host of new features and enhancements to Altova?s product line, including support for working with very large files in XMLSpy, extended Office Open XML (OOXML) functionality across multiple products, support for creating Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) diagrams in UModel, and more.
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 | | March 31, 2008
Good Things in All Sizes
Government Computer News
Time and technology march ever forward; what was new last year is already labeled as legacy today. This keeps product vendors on their toes, offering new wares — and that’s why it’s worth checking out the exhibits at this year’s FOSE trade show, sponsored by the 1105 Government Information Group and held in Washington March 31-April 3. Here are some of the more promising new technologies worthy of closer inspection.
Altova (Booth 1123) will be showing off MapForce v2008, its most recent version of software that can help map out what you have. The software lets administrators map between systems of differing formats, such as Extensible Markup Language, databases, flat files, Web Services Description Language pointers and electronic data interchange systems.
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| | March 18, 2008
LANSA Orchestrates Success for Business Automation
Database Trends and Applications Magazine
Two years ago, after noticing an increasing need for non-technical users to perform business process automation tasks, LANSA decided a new solution that would offer sophisticated data integration capabilities through an easy-to-use visual interface, and would not require the user to write any code, was necessary. That solution, LANSA Composer, which shipped to customers in October 2007, is built around the visual interface and behind-the-scenes code generation capabilities of MapForce, a graphical mapping, conversion and integration tool from Altova.
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| | March 2008
Semantic Web Tools Emerge
Redmond Developer News
The Semantic Web is not a technology per se, but rather a combination of a philosophy, design principles and supporting technologies that make electronic information readable by machines and humans alike. The result: an online environment where software and systems can efficiently find and process online information without human intervention.
“For the most part, the Semantic Web community hasn't done a lot to get things to a practical state for mainstream programmers,” admits Tauberer, who wrote SemWeb to support his own research. “However, we're finally starting to see some other tools emerge.”
Some of those other tools include the Windows-based Altova SemanticWorks product, which allows developers to graphically design RDF instance documents, RDF Schema vocabularies and Web Ontology Language (OWL) ontologies, then output them in either RDF/XML or N-Triples formats.
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| | January 22, 2008
Desmond File: Altova's Alexander Falk Discusses OOXML and ODF
Redmond Developer News
Last week, I wrote about the recent Burton Group report that provided an overview of the Office Open XML (OOXML) and OpenDocument Format (ODF) file format specifications. The report, which is aimed at an enterprise readership, concludes that OOXML enjoys a number of critical advantages over ODF, in large part because it maps aggressively to the existing features and functions provided by current and past versions of Microsoft Office. You can find a synopsis of the report here.
One familiar name that came up in the course of talking to Burton Group Research Director Peter O'Kelly about the report he authored was that of Alexander Falk. Falk is CEO of Altova, a leading provider of XML tools and utilities. I had spoken with Falk several months ago in the course of reporting an earlier story for RDN, and figured now was probably a good time to catch up with him again.
Here's a quick Q&A that offers Falk's informed takes on the benefits of the XML transition, prospects for ODF going forward and why it may already be entirely too late to stop Microsoft's OOXML spec.
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| | November 15, 2007
ODF Split Shakes Up Document Battle - OpenDocument Foundation withdraws support for OpenDocument Format.
Redmond Developer News
The ongoing file-format battle between proponents of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) took a surprising turn late last month, when a longtime ODF proponent announced it would abandon the ISO-approved specification. The move by the OpenDocument Foundation comes less than two months after Microsoft lost a key ISO vote to approve OOXML as a standard.
The OpenDocument Foundation is now urging the industry to support the Complex Document Format (CDF), a file-format specification managed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the same body that defines and maintains XML and HTML. Work began on the CDF spec in October 2004.
Alexander Falk, president of XML tools vendor Altova Inc., says the ODF split is hardly surprising in the world of standards forming. "Consortiums of seemingly aligned interests often fall apart when it becomes apparent that the interests aren't as aligned as everyone thought they were," he writes in an e-mail interview.
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 | | November 7, 2007
Best of Connections 2007 Winners!
Windows IT Pro
Windows IT Pro, SQL Server Magazine, OfficeSharePointPro.com, and WindowsDevPro.com announced the winners of the Best of Connections 2007 awards contest. Judges reviewed products from 18 finalists from more than 60 entries in 7 categories to determine the winners at the Connections show in Las Vegas.
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| | October 15, 2007
The X Factor:
As the industry battles over XML file formats, what should dev managers focus on?
Redmond Developer News
Why is there so much passion in a debate about something as esoteric as XML-based file formats? In a word: Microsoft. The software giant in September failed to get its OOXML format ratified as an international standard by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). The run up to that vote -- and to a second vote slated for February 2008 -- has ignited a passionate debate about file formats and suspicions about Microsoft's intentions as it pushes OOXML.
At issue is the way organizations will store, access and manipulate files created by productivity applications like Microsoft Office and OpenOffice. Today's binary files are often opaque to third-party applications, meaning companies can't process these files anywhere but on the client. Moving to open, XML-based file formats radically changes that, says Alexander Falk, CEO of XML tools vendor Altova Inc.
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| | October 9, 2007
XML: Everybody's (Finally) Doing It
EContent Magazine
The long awaited use of XML in office suites has arrived. OpenOffice was the first to migrate to XML, StarOffice 8 provides an extra layer of support for OpenOffice, Corel WordPerfect was an early XML adopter and will soon import/export to other XML office suites, and Microsoft Office 2007 is built on XML. OK, the future has arrived. Now what?
Two major XML definitions are assured to survive: OpenOffice/StarOffice’s OpenDocument format (ODF) and Office Open XML (OOXML). The benefits of this move to XML are only slowly emerging, which may partially explain the slow adoption rates. Having reviewed both StarOffice and Office 2007 recently, I can see some obvious advantages to both products and to their use of XML generally.
What do the vendors themselves say? Altova CEO Alexander Falk says that the new features of XML Spy will allow developers to "extract, edit, query and transform XML data. This provides huge advantages to business people and application developers." Falk believes that waiting for an ideal world using richer XML features like DITA or DocBook misses the larger point: The bulk of the world's information is in basic office documents.
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| | October 3, 2007
Diving Deeply Into Databases: Altova’s 2008 products emphasis database connectivity
SD Times Magazine
If a trading partner sends another partner an XML file, the safe money is that it is not formatted to fit a particular table in that partner's database, and neither is that XML feed of calendar information that the marketing department subscribes to.
Scenarios such as these motivated Altova to broaden the database functionality of its 2008 product line, said Tim Hale, Altova’s director of global marketing.
The 2008 versions of Altova DatabaseSpy, MapForce, StyleVision and XMLSpy have new capabilities to connect to relational databases, and edit, query and view relational data and XML data stored within. The products were released in mid-September.
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| | October 1, 2007
Hands-On Product Report: Altova XMLSpy 2007
Redmond Developer Magazine
XMLSpy 2007 Release 3 is a top-notch suite of tools for developing, editing, transforming, debugging and manipulating anything that looks like XML. If an XML-based format or application is ready for prime time, XMLSpy has it covered with templates and schemas.
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 | | October 1, 2007
Effectively Manage Your Database Projects
MSDN Magazine
There are many tools available for managing databases, exploring and modifying schemas, and writing and executing queries. One such off-the-shelf tool worth investigating is DatabaseSpy 2007 by Altova. DatabaseSpy can connect to a wide variety of different data stores—Microsoft® Access®, Microsoft SQL Server™, Oracle, MySQL, Sybase, and so on—and provides a uniform user experience regardless of the database.
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| | September 25, 2007
Altova Releases 2008 Version of its Entire Product Line
DBTA 5-Minute Briefing
Altova, creator of XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, announced the availability of Version 2008 of its entire line of software development tools. With the release of its v2008 products, Altova introduces a host of powerful new capabilities, including support for editing database views and stored procedures in DatabaseSpy.
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 | | September 13, 2007
Altova Tools Add OOXML and Improved Database Support
Dr. Dobb's Journal
Altova announced "Version 2008" updates of 11 tools in its product lineup, which includes XMLSpy, UModel, DatabaseSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, SemanticWorks and others. The list of new features includes support for Microsoft's Office Open XML format, validation of XInclude and XPointer statements, improved database functionality, and integration into the Visual Studio .NET or Eclipse IDEs.
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 | | August 1, 2007
UML Simplified
Redmond Magazine
Modeling using the Unified Modeling Language was never as easy and inexpensive as it is with UModel.
Click here for the full story. |
 | | August 1, 2007
SQL Server Standouts -- The 2007 Editor's Choice Awards honor 17 exceptional SQL Server products
SQL Server Magazine
SQL Server Magazine gives readers information about database-related hardware, software, and services in every issue. In the second annual Editors' Choice Awards, SQL Server Magazine honored the best of the best from all the products they've covered in the past year.
Altova DatabaseSpy win this year's Platinum Editors' Choice Award in the Development Tools category. Click here for the full story.
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 | | July, 2007
Management for DB2 9 from Altova
DB2 Magazine
Altova has announced version 2007 release 3 (v2007r3) of its software product line, which now provides deep integration with the DB2 9 data server and its "pureXML" technology. The new, specialized features in XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, and DatabaseSpy make it practical to develop pureXML applications and to convert, publish, and manage pureXML data.
Click here for the full story.
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 | | June 6, 2007
XMLSpy Now Supports Open XML Formats
OpenXML Developer.org
Altova has announced Open XML support for their flagship product, XMLSpy. XMLSpy 2007 Release 3 provides full validation of Open XML documents, intelligent entry helpers, and support for the development of XSLT and XQuery transformations for working with Open XML data.
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 | | June 1, 2007
Altova Releases Capabilities for IBM DB2 9 pureXML
Database Journal
Altova has announced the availability of Version 2007 Release 3 of its software product line, now providing deep integration with the IBM DB2 9 data server and its pureXML technology.
Exclusive new functionality within Altova''s XMLSpy®, MapForce®, StyleVision®, and DatabaseSpy™ products, gives users capabilities for editing, exchanging, transforming, and querying XML data.
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 | | May 31, 2007
Altova Expands Support for IBM DB2 9
eWeek
Altova has released new versions of its XML development, data management and other products with tighter integration with the IBM DB2 9 data server.
The new offerings, part of Altova's Version 2007 Release 3 product line, extend functionality within the company's XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision and DatabaseSpy products and expand users' ability to edit, exchange, transform and query XML data stored in IBM DB2 9 databases.
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| | May 29, 2007
A Look at Dedicated Semantic Web Tools
eWeek
As is the case with many Web technologies today, nearly every core piece of the Semantic Web is based on XML, from RDF to OWL to SPARQL.
Altova's SemanticWorks 2007 is a Windows-based visual RDF and OWL (Web Ontology Language) editor. Altova has long been a strong player in the XML development market and anyone who has used its excellent XMLSpy XML development tool will instantly feel at home in SemanticWorks 2007.
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 | | April 24, 2007
Practical application: Put XSLT 2.0 to Work for You
TechRepublic
XSLT 2.0 is no longer just a theoretical standard. With some readily available free tools you can put the power of XSLT 2.0 to work for you in your normal application development. Edmond Woychowsky shows which tools to get and how it all comes together in practice.
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 | | April 9, 2007
Altova DatabaseSpy makes DBs user-friendly
InfoWorld
Boasting some impressive features, easy-to-use query tool is a boon for non-DBAs
Altova's DatabaseSpy 2007 does a pretty good job of lowering the learning curve for a lot of common database tasks so that employees can concentrate on their jobs instead of becoming DBAs. All in all, it's quite a nice tool that's quick and easy to set up and use. Although it lacks some administrative functionality that would be attractive to admins, it still boasts some surprisingly rich features, such as IntelliSense code-completion. It's safe to predict that Altova has some pretty big plans in store.
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 | | March 26, 2007
New Altova Delivers on UML 2.1
FTP Online .NET Development
VSLive! San Francisco 2007 exhibitor Altova demonstrated at the show a new version of its UModel 2007 UML modeling tool, displaying full the UML 2.1.1 compatibility. UModel has a number of features that make developing a UML model and producing an application from the model easy and productive.
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| | March 13, 2007
New XSLT 2.0 features every application developer should know
TechRepublic
Unless you've been devoting all of your time to watching the Firefly box set and the movie Serenity that you got over the holidays and comparing family members' opening their gifts to Reavers sacking a town, you might have heard that XSLT 2.0 is now a recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium.
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 | | March/April 2007
Altova Introduces DatabaseSpy 2007
Oracle Magazine
Altova has released DatabaseSpy 2007, a multidatabase data management, query, and design tool. Designed to be a universal tool for database professionals, DatabaseSpy can connect with most major databases, including Oracle9i and Oracle Database 10g, Microsoft SQL Servers 2000 and 2005, Microsoft Access 2003, IBM DB2 versions 8.x and 9, MySQL 4.x and 5.x, and Sybase 11. DatabaseSpy can operate with any database that uses an ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) or Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) connection.
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| | February 2007
Altova DatabaseSpy 2007
SQL Server Magazine
IT professionals and consultants often must work in heterogeneous database environments. The available database client tools range from command-line tools to GUIs. Understanding the nuances of all these client applications can be expensive and time consuming. Altova, maker of the popular XMLSpy XML editing tool, has released a new product called DatabaseSpy to address these problems. DatabaseSpy is a multi- database management and design tool that provides a common interface for professionals who routinely work with different database environments.
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