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 DB/XML Transform™ - Features and Benefits

Key Product Features: Business Benefits
Hierarchical Data Transformation
Transform and flow hierarchical data bi-directionally between database, XML, EDI and text formats in any combination to leverage all information across your enterprise. Data can be transformed from any format to any other format to enable powerful distributed data integration. Relational data from your database can be accurately represented in hierarchically structured XML documents.
Empower your business to exchange complex business transactions within the enterprise and beyond. Out-of-the-box support for a broad range of data formats helps ensure fewer technical support requirements and a shorter implementation cycle for rapid return on investment.
Data Transformation Between EDI and Other Formats
DB/XML Transform supports all EDIFACT and X12 transaction sets in all releases to ensure seamless integration of your existing EDI infrastructure with other applications. Companies can freely transform data from EDI messages to XML, database, text and other formats.
Cost-effectively leverage existing EDI investments and communicate business information to partners regardless of their technology standard. Implement an XML strategy in a controlled fashion while ensuring compatibility with current systems. Flow data smoothly both within and beyond the organization's boundaries.
Easy Mappings of Complex Structured Data
Hierarchical data in XML, generated by DataMirror's patented Tree-Structured Query Technology, provides a database snapshot which allows for easy conversion/mapping from database to XML and vice versa. This provides the most advanced implementation for database updates using data from XML documents.
Effectively manage the influx of new and varied structured data from various business partners and customers. Streamline your integration process by performing direct transformations with point-and-click flexibility.
Customizable Transformations
Manipulate the data itself as well as data structure or format to meet real world business requirements. Generate unique key values required by the database. Incrementally update databases, assign fixed or dynamic default values to fields, change data structures and apply formatting rules.
DB/XML Transform's strong data transformation capabilities gives users total control and flexibility in manipulating and structuring data to and from databases. Users can effortlessly manipulate and transform data into virtually any format required by internal departments or business partners. Easily transform data to or from formats such as HTML, XHTML and WML.
Built-in Functions for Complex Data Manipulation
DB/XML Transform provides many useful built-in functions that enable users to easily manipulate data to meet their needs. These functions include the standard XPath functions and many DB/XML Transform specific functions.
Save precious development time and resources by deploying a comprehensive end-to-end solution with a full range of built-in functions. Achieve faster implementations of e-Business and B2B projects and lower maintenance costs over the total life cycle of the solution.
Broad Support for Industry Standards
DB/XML Transform supports the W3C XML Schema 1.0 as well as the BizTalk and RosettaNet schema languages to ensure seamless business-to-business and application-to-application integration. Using DB/XML Transform, customers can easily transform data between RosettaNet, BizTalk, EDI and other standard message formats through schema files.
Standards-based solutions reduce the risk of system obsolescence and ensure that the XML technologies you implement today will continue to deliver value well into the future. Open technology and broad support for industry standards enables companies to future proof their technology investment.
Open Architecture
Application Programming Interface (API) enables third-party applications to easily configure DB/XML Transform and execute operations to leverage the product's powerful transformation engine. Users can also plug in Java objects and stored procedures for complex processing requirements such as data validation and translation with lookup tables.
The open architecture of DB/XML Transform gives enterprises the flexibility and freedom to handle all specific implementation requirements. Businesses can confidently adapt to the constantly changing needs of a dynamic enterprise.