We are pleased to announce the production release of Astera DataMapper 2008 Professional Edition. DataMapper 2008 has been developed in close collaboration with a number of data conversion professionals from business and IT. The product has been in beta testing with select customers and the feedback regarding functionality, ease of use, and price has been very positive. Many customers tell us that the product offers substantially more functionality and usability than products costing several times more.

From a performance point of view, DataMapper 2008 is comparable to high-end ETL products. Designed from the ground up as a multi-threaded parallel processing engine, DataMapper delivers performance and scalability unmatched in its category.

The Pro Edition is intended both for business users and developers. The user interface is designed for business users and building data transfers does not require programming expertise. Smart file parsers accurately detect data types and lengths in a large majority of cases while powerful data transformation features enable you to easily create fairly complex transfers. Database writing engine provides control over database writes including updating existing records, and transaction management.

For developers, Astera DataMapper 2008 Pro brings APIs that enable you to integrate DataMapper into your applications. Moreover, you can easily add custom functions to Astera Rules Language. These custom functions can even call outside components and services. In many cases, customers have built custom libraries to implement frequently used transformations.

We are committed to continually evolving DataMapper and are working on some exciting new features for upcoming releases. Your feedback helps drives our feature selection. Please let us know the features you would like to see in future releases and, who knows, you may see them sooner than you think.
Here is a snapshot of key DataMapper features. Look here for more information. A detailed feature matrix is available here.

• Source types include files, databases and SQL Query. Destination types include files and databases
• Build maps using the interactive drag-and-drop mapping and AutoMap
  features. Use lookups and expressions for more involved mappings.
• Data Preview feature helps you validate and fix mappings before
  running transfer while Data Profiling feature provides an aggregate
  overview of your data
• Data Migration Batch helps you define multi-table data transfers between databases
• Multi-threaded data transfer engine supports high-speed data movement between all supported databases and file formats
• Schedule transfer for one-time, hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly runs
• Supports SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, and Access databases.
• File types include delimited, fixed length, and Excel. Capability to process files in over a hundred languages and encodings
• Transfer Batch helps you create a collection of transfers and run them sequentially
• A full-featured query tool provides a consistent interface across all the supported databases
• Query editor with syntax highlighting, unlimited undo/redo, and printing capability
• Control over database writes including updating existing records,
  conditional updates, transaction management, and system generated key
  options.