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Altova® announced its brand new family of high-performance server software products for automating essential business processes. The new FlowForce® Server manages the orchestration of events, triggers, and the automation of workflows and processes. MapForce® Server automates any-to-any data mapping and aggregation processes, and StyleVision® Server automates multi-channel report generation.

Altova® announced at the XBRL26 Conference in Dublin, Ireland, a ground-breaking new XML and XBRL validation and processing server called RaptorXML. RaptorXML is highly cross-platform compatible and takes advantage of today’s ubiquitous multi-core and multi-CPU computers and servers to deliver lighting fast processing of XML and XBRL data.

Altova® announced that XMLSpy, MapForce® and StyleVision® Version 2012 Release 2 (v2012r2) are now available in fully translated Spanish language versions. The products in Altova’s all-new Spanish v2012r2 product line have been completely localized, enabling users to take advantage of the same powerful functionality available in its English, German, and Japanese language versions.

Altova® announced the public beta launch of MetaTeam™ – a new team management and project collaboration cloud service. MetaTeam is a different kind of project management solution. It breaks down the mysteries of team organization into simple steps that anyone – not just project managers – can use effectively.

Altova® announced the availability of version 2012 Release 2 (2012r2) of the Altova MissionKit®, its integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools, and complete product line. This latest release includes support working with EPUB files in XMLSpy, sorting of data mapping results in MapForce®, generation of code from UML sequence diagrams in UModel®, RichEdit functionality in StyleVision® and Authentic®, and much more

Altova® announced the availability of Altova Software Version 2012, which delivers new features across the product line and the Altova MissionKit®, its integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools. Version 2012 adds support for HTML5 and CSS3 in XMLSpy and StyleVision, enhanced ETL capabilities in MapForce, new options for advanced styling in StyleVision, and support for Model Driven Architecture (MDA) in UModel, plus new, Java-friendly options in multiple MissionKit tools.

Altova® will be highlighting its tools for ensuring compliance with healthcare, financial, government, and other industry standards at FOSE 2011 (Booth #1428), July 19-21, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The latest release of the MissionKit® – Version 2011 Release 3 – builds upon existing support for working with the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), Health Level 7 (HL7), and National Information Exchange Model (NIEM), while introducing new, native support for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) 5010 standard, and more.

Altova® announced availability of Version 2011 Release 3 (2011r3) of the Altova MissionKit® and complete product line. Release 3 delivers important new functionality for creating digital signatures for XML documents across multiple MissionKit tools through support for XML Signature. Other important new features include native support for mapping HIPAA 5010 transactions in MapForce®, a brand new PXF file format to enable truly Portable XML Forms in XMLSpy, StyleVision®, and Authentic®, and much more.

Altova® announced the Maryland Association of CPAs (MACPA) is using the Altova MissionKit® tool suite to transform its internal accounting data into the Extensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) format. MACPA looked to Altova to raise its working awareness of the XBRL standard and leverage its financial data in XBRL format to gain efficiencies and improve transparency. They chose the Altova MissionKit software suite, which includes multiple tools for working with XBRL. Specifically, MACPA was able to use XMLSpy, MapForce®, and StyleVision® to customize, map, and publish their XBRL data into content that could be shared among its organization’s members and other non-profits by utilizing the tools’ intelligent wizards, graphical drag-and-drop design models, and various code generation capabilities.

Altova® offers a host of features for users working with Microsoft® technologies in the Altova MissionKit®, the integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools for XML developers and software architects. The latest release of the MissionKit – Version 2011 Release 2 – builds upon existing support for Microsoft Word and the Office Open XML (OOXML) data format with new functionality for comparing and merging Microsoft Word documents in Altova DiffDog®. Some other MissionKit features helpful for developers, designers, and DBAs working with Microsoft technologies include seamless integration with Visual Studio®, powerful functionality for SQL Server® database development and reporting, integration with SharePoint® Server, and much more.

Altova® recently announced new support for comparing Microsoft® Word documents using Altova DiffDog®. The new comparison feature was introduced as part of Altova’s launch of Version 2011 Release 2 of its MissionKit® tool suite and entire product line. The integration of Microsoft Word into DiffDog’s user interface delivers greater flexibility as users can utilize familiar Word functions while comparing and editing documents within the diff/merge tool.

Altova® announced that XMLSpy and MapForce have received 2010-2011 ComponentSource Bestselling Product Awards. Altova was also presented with the Top 10 Bestselling Publisher Award. This is the third consecutive year that both Altova and XMLSpy have been receipts of the awards. This year Altova and XMLSpy were also named to the Top 5 Bestselling Publisher and Top 5 Bestselling Product awards in Japan. The ComponentSource Bestselling Awards are given annually to the Top 100 Bestselling Publishers and Top 100 Bestselling Products based on the total sales dollar value of orders placed by customers during the year.

Altova® recently announced several new, unique enhancements have been added to XMLSpy® Version 2011 Release 2 (v2011r2). XMLSpy is the industry leading XML editor and part of the Altova MissionKit®, an integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools. With the release of Version 2011r2, XMLSpy expands its cutting edge chart and report creation capabilities introduced in Version 2011 with even more functionality for visualizing XML data. XMLSpy v2011r2 also delivers additional resources for working with XML Schemas, functionality for embedding external files in XML, support for customizable document generation, and much more

Altova® recently announced the availability of Version 2011 Release 2 (2011r2) of the Altova MissionKit®, its integrated suite of XML, database, and UML tools. Release 2 includes updates to the entire MissionKit suite as well as Altova’s standalone products and expands upon the cutting-edge chart and report creation functionality introduced in Version 2011 of XMLSpy, StyleVision®, DatabaseSpy®, Authentic®, and AltovaXML®. Customers will find advanced features including several new chart types – stacked bar, area, stacked area, and candlestick – and customizable chart features including chart overlays, background image and color gradients, variable axis label positions, and more, providing even more options for analyzing and reporting database and XML data. Version 2011r2 also includes additional resources for working with XML Schemas in XMLSpy, functionality for direct file output (data streaming) for ETL projects in MapForce®, support for comparing and merging Microsoft® Word documents in DiffDog®, and much more.