A Brand New Altova Web Site, Useful How-Tos, and More

	New Year,   New Web Site!   Product Info Product Demo Download Buy Now Training January 2013 Happy New Year! We'd like to wish you and yours a joyous and prosperous 2013. We hope you enjoy this month's newsletter, which includes some exciting news about the Altova Web site and two helpful how-to articles addressing common number format issues and a clever way to use DatabaseSpy. 1. Totally New Altova Web Site 2. Altova MissionKit Solves a Number Format Mystery 3. A Relational View of the PMBOK Totally New Altova Web Site We are so excited to announce the launch of our new, improved, completely redesigned Web site! We hope you'll find the new Altova.com cleaner, simpler, and more beautiful than ever. Our most important goal for this redesign was to make the site easier to navigate so that you can find exactly what you're looking for quickly, whether that's Product information, Support resources, or technical reference materials. At the same time, we hope the new site will help you discover a little something you didn't know about Altova - something that can help you in your day-to-day work. For instance, did you know that we have a comprehensive line of Database Tools in addition to the XML Tools and Developer Tools that we're known for? And did you know that, in addition to our comprehensive product documentation, we offer on-demand technology and product training to help you get started with projects ranging from basic to quite advanced? As always, we're looking for your input to make this site the best it can possibly be. Please contact our Marketing team with any feedback! Altova MissionKit Solves a Number Format Mystery Every time you receive data from an outside source, there is a chance it won't arrive in the form you expect. This can require special accommodations for the rare and unlikely to make a real-world data mapping and transformation solution robust and reliable. Luckily Altova MissionKit tools have lots of functionality to help you adapt to every situation. For instance, we recently created a MapForce mapping project that consumed elevation data from a Web service to help refine information tracked by GPS devices. Everything was working as planned until some data arrived in a new format and caused the mapping to fail. Read on to learn how we troubleshot the problem and ultimately solved it using a combination of two MissionKit tools: XMLSpy and MapForce. User-defined functions in MapForce help you adapt to changing data A Relational View of the PMBOK Since Altova MetaTeam is a powerful project management tool designed to support standards and methodologies, we encourage our team members to be certified as Project Management Professionals (PMP). Anyone familiar with the PMP certification process knows this is no easy feat. The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), the leading project management standard, is a long, complex document containing a staggering amount of critical-to-know information that can be difficult to navigate and cross-reference. Fortunately, the content is linked in some very relationally-oriented ways. To help make studying more efficient, we created an in-house tool for working with the PMBOK using, you guessed it, DatabaseSpy. Check out the article to learn how DatabaseSpy helped it all come together. You can access the database we created, too.
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