Web services and custom data integration applications are two modern solutions that allow organizations to unify these disparate formats to enjoy the cost and competitive advantages of seamless information exchange. MapForce®  uniquely lets you map data in an intuitive, visual manner. Then it auto-generates the program code or stylesheets required to implement your Web services and custom data integration applications server-side. MapForce® supports the following powerful functionality:

• Graphical data mapping
• Executing and saving mapping output
• Bi-directional XML, database, flat file, EDI, & Web services data mapping
• Advanced data processing functions
• Mapping data to WSDL operations
• Visual function builder for creating custom functions
• Building Web services
• Project view for organizing mappings
• Mapping multiple sources to multiple targets
• Seamless integration with Eclipse and Visual Studio
• Parsing flat files using FlexText™ utility
• OLE and ActiveX controls
• XSLT 1.0, XSLT 2.0, XQuery generation
• Java, C#, C++ program code generation
• And much more...

Integrate Enterprise Data

• In addition to support for building Web services, MapForce® allows you to design data integration applications for mapping any combination of XML, database, flat file, EDI, and Web services data.
• XML mapping support is based on XML Schema.
• Database mapping support includes accessing database views and systems table in any relational database.
• Flat file mappingsupport includes CSV, tab delimited, and fixed-width text files. Support for arbitrary or mixed layout flat files is also provided through MapForce FlexText™, a versatile flat file parsing utility.
• EDI mapping support includes the hundreds of messages covered by the two most popular EDI standards: UN/EDIFACT and ANSI X12.
• Web services mapping support allows connecting to existing Web services to utilize their functionality as a source, target, or processing function in data mappings.

MapForce® is available in three editions customized to meet your Web services and data integration needs:

• MapForce Standard Edition supports XML-to-XML mapping.
• MapForce Professional Edition supports XML, database, and flat file data mapping.
• MapForce Enterprise Edition supports all the features of MapForce Professional edition with the addition of Web services mapping and implementation, EDI mapping, and the FlexText flat file parsing utility.