ProductsMapForceEDI MappingEDI <-> XML Mapping

Altova MapForce® 2009 allows you to map EDI messages to and from XML, as well as a wide variety of other prevalent business file formats including databases, flat files, Excel 2007, Web services, and other EDI standards. Full support for UN/EDIFACT, ANSI X12, and Health Level 7 (HL7) means that you can seamlessly export from and integrate with other systems. Transforming EDI to XML has never been easier than with the graphical data mapping capabilities of MapForce.

Graphical EDI <-> XML Mapping

As organizations increasingly use the Internet to exchange information with customers and trading partners, the value of XML as a format for data exchange has been recognized by many companies, and it is often introduced as an alternative to EDI. Standards bodies have answered this call with a variety of different XML-based message structures have been published in recent years including ebXML, RosettaNet, cXML, UBL, and HL7 version 3. In addition, Web services, which communicate via SOAP (XML messages), have evolved as an attractive alternative to costly VANs.

Organizations that have traditionally used EDI as the mode of communication for all of their B2B transactions now often find themselves required to submit or receive data in XML. Converting EDIFACT, X12, or HL7 to XML can be an arduous, time-consuming, and costly process, often requiring external consultants or departments not familiar with EDI syntax to write transformation code. However, with MapForce, companies can leverage their investment in EDI while at the same time integrating data from XML applications and other sources and build Web services using an intuitive graphical interface.

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EDI <-> XML mapping in MapForce enables you to translate your raw EDI data into any XML format including proprietary storage formats, Web services, and emerging e-commerce standards like ebXML, RosettaNet, cXML, and others - as well as update your HL7 EDI infrastructure to version 3. MapForce also allows you to easily generate application code based on your mapping design, so that you can automate future transformations based on the same source and target structures.

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