New! Altova Server Software Products

On April 29, 2013 Altova introduced its new line of cross-platform server software products optimized for today's high-performance, parallel computing environments. FlowForce Server provides comprehensive management, job scheduling, and security options for the automation of essential business processes. MapForce Server and StyleVision Server offer high-speed automation for projects designed using familiar Altova MissionKit developer tools. RaptorXML Server is the third-generation, hyper-fast validation and processing engine for XML and XBRL.



Select a link below to learn about each new Altova server tool:

FlowForce Server, MapForce Server, and StyleVision Server are available for a free, 30-day trial.

What's New in Altova MissionKit

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New! FlowForce Server

FlowForce Server Highlights

  • Automates execution of MapForce Server to perform data transformations based on MapForce data mappings
  • Automates execution of StyleVision Server to render XML or XBRL into reports, documents, and eforms
  • Activates job execution by time, file, or remote triggers
  • Supports flow control for jobs, with loops, conditions, result evaluation, and error handling
  • Detailed execution logging
  • Access control via roles, permissions, and privileges
  • Provides containers with individual access permissions form a hierarchical structure for configuration objects
  • Intuitive Web interface to manage and monitor all server activities
  • Configurable email notification for job steps or errors
  • FTP support to read and write files directly to and from FTP servers
FlowForce Server 2013
Altova FlowForce Server is designed to provide automation of data transformations performed by dedicated high-speed servers, virtual machines, or workstations scaled for the scope of the project. With its straightforward Web browser interface, FlowForce Server empowers data architects, analysts, and other IT professionals to implement, monitor, and manage a secure and robust data transformation server without writing or compiling any source code.

Jobs, Triggers, and Actions

A FlowForce Server job consists of triggers, execution steps, input parameters, and other settings. Multiple triggers and execution steps can be defined per job. FlowForce Server can run multiple jobs simultaneously, even multiple instances of the same job.

FlowForce Server triggers start jobs based on various criteria including time triggers for one-time or repetitive execution, file triggers to start a job when a specific file changes or when a new file is detected in a hot folder, or remote triggers that poll for changes on an HTTP server.

A FlowForce Server job can include a series of actions. FlowForce Server jobs can execute MapForce Server and StyleVision Server to perform sophisticated data transformations and render HTML, RTF, Word, or PDF output. File system actions support copying or moving files, creating or removing directories, executing arbitrary command lines, and much more.

Web Interface for Communication and Control

Managing and monitoring the complex activities of a data transformation server is critical to success in a busy production environment. The FlowForce Server Web interface includes customizable views into the FlowForce Server Job Log, providing visibility from anywhere on the network.

The FlowForce Web Interface allows administrators to configure server operations including jobs, triggers, and more, and to define access control in a hierarchy of roles, privileges, and permissions assigned to each user. Containers with individual permissions create a hierarchical structure for storing and isolating configuration objects.

The Web Interface simplifies implementation of cross-platform configurations where a specialized, high-performance data transformation server runs a different OS than user workstations.

Cross-platform Support

  • Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP, 7, 8 or newer
  • Linux (CentOS 6, Debian 6, and Ubuntu 12.04 or newer)
  • Mac OS X10.7 or newer (Available in June)

Download a free trial of FlowForce Server 2013 now.

 

Or, visit the FlowForce Server product pages for more information.

New! MapForce Server

MapForce Server Highlights

  • Based on the built-in data transformation engine originally created for Altova MapForce
  • Integrates as a component of FlowForce Server or operates in standalone mode from a command line
  • Performs data mappings based on optimized MapForce mapping files
  • XML, databases, CSV, EDI, Excel (Open XML), or XBRL as input sources
  • XML, CSV, EDI, Excel (Open XML), or XBRL as output
  • Supports one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-mapping data mapping
  • Sorts data by various criteria
  • Extensive data processing function library, plus user-defined functions
  • Data mapping parameters can be supplied at runtime
  • Intermediate variables can be evaluated for conditional processing
  • Supports global resources to define input and output data, file locations, or databases
MapForce Server 2013
Altova MapForce Server is based on the built-in data transformation engine developed for MapForce and performs data transformations based on preprocessed and optimized data mappings stored in MapForce Server Execution files prepared and uploaded by MapForce. Preprocessing enables faster performance and reduced memory footprint for most data mappings. MapForce Server can operate under the management of FlowForce Server, or in a standalone configuration executed from a command line.

MapForce Server Development Edition

A single-user, single-workstation version of MapForce Server called the MapForce Server Development Edition is included with MapForce 2013 Release 2 to allow MapForce users to optimize data mappings and execute them on a local system, with faster performance and reduced memory footprint.

Cross-platform Support

  • Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP, 7, 8 or newer
  • Linux (CentOS 6, Debian 6, and Ubuntu 12.04 or newer)
  • Mac OS X10.7 or newer (Available in June)

Download a free trial of MapForce Server 2013 now.

 

Or, visit the MapForce Server product pages for more information.

New! StyleVision Server

StyleVision Server Highlights

  • Based on the document generation engine originally created for Altova StyleVision
  • Integrates as a component of FlowForce Server or operates in standalone mode from a command line
  • Renders documents, reports, and e-forms based on optimized StyleVision stylesheets
  • Accepts XML and XBRL input data
  • Renders HTML, RTF, PDF, Word (Open XML) documents, and eForms
  • Supports business logic validation, complex tables, barcodes, tables of contents, conditional formatting, direct template filtering, date control, and much more
  • Generates colorful and informative pie charts, bar charts, area charts, category and value line graphs, candlestick charts, and gauge charts
  • Simultaneous output in multiple formats based on a single graphical design
  • Support for multiple page layouts in one document
  • Accepts parameters at runtime to supply values to parameters defined in the stylesheet
StyleVision Server 2013
Altova StyleVision Server is based on the built-in report and document generation engine developed for StyleVision. StyleVision Server renders XML and/or XBRL data into HTML, RTF, PDF, or Microsoft Word files based on StyleVision stylesheets and uploaded by StyleVision over a network connection. StyleVision Server can operate under the management of FlowForce Server or in a standalone configuration executed from a command line.

StyleVision Server Workflows

StyleVision Server can be implemented in conjunction with MapForce Server to accept XML or XBRL output from MapForce Server data mappings and render HTML, RTF, PDF, or Microsoft Word forms, documents, and reports, complete with colorful and eye-catching charts and graphs to visualize data.

Cross-platform Support

  • Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP, 7, 8 or newer
  • Linux (CentOS 6, Debian 6, and Ubuntu 12.04 or newer)
  • Mac OS X10.7 or newer (Available in June)

Download a free trial of StyleVision Server 2013 now.

 

Or, visit the StyleVision Server product pages for more information.

New! RaptorXML Server

RaptorXML Highlights

  • Lighting-fast XML and XBRL validator
  • XML processor supporting XSD, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, and more
  • XBRL validator supporting XBRL, XBRL Dimensions, and XBRL Formula
  • Cross platform capabilities for Windows, MacOS, Linux
  • Highly scalable code for multi-CPU/multi-core/parallel computing
  • Parallel loading, processing, and validation
  • Superior error reporting
  • Streaming instance validation against DTD and XSD
  • Streaming serialization
  • COM and Java APIs
  • Built-in HTTP server with REST validation API
  • XPath extensions for XBRL, Java, .NET languages, etc.
Altova RaptorXML is the third-generation, hyper-fast XML and XBRL validation and processing server from the leaders in the XML tools field. RaptorXML is highly cross-platform capable and supports the latest versions of all relevant standards, delivering lightning-fast processing of XBRL and XML data.
Coming in June 2013