Apatar Extends Customer Information with CDYNE Demographics Data

New Apatar data quality connector for CDYNE Demographics Web service enriches customer database by integrating contacts with their statistical socio-economic data

May 8, 2008, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, today officially announced the CDYNE Demographics connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. The new connector delivers statistical data about customers and allows organizations to identify the ethnic and socio-economic makeup of their current customer base or purchased marketing lists. Apatar’s CDYNE Demographics connector can be used with any contacts database to determine the age, race, income, as well as type of residence, median income, median house value, or median number of vehicles, all without coding.

Apatar Announces Validation with Regular Expressions

May 1, 2008, Chicopee, MA – Apatar team announced the ability to validate and filter data using specified regular expressions within Apatar Open Source Data Integration application. With the new Match RegExp function, Apatar users can filter out records that do not match the criteria specified by regular expressions. Users can set the rules or a template for string formats, such as e-mail addresses, phone numbers and codes, or IP addresses, to match. The new feature will be useful in determining the validity of any formatted data and ridding database of bad entries.

Apatar Maximizes Customer Data Quality Efforts with CDYNE Phone Verification

April 17, 2008, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, today officially announced the CDYNE Phone Verification connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. The new connector quickly and accurately determines the validity of any U.S. or Canadian phone number using CDYNE Web Services, all without coding. Now Apatar enables any business user to verify and filter customer phone numbers extracted from databases (such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle), files (Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, CSV/TXT files), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3, RSS feeds).

Apatar Announces Complex String Search with Regular Expressions

April 15, 2008, Chicopee, MA – Apatar team announced an ability to perform complex search within the Apatar Open Source Data Integration application using Regular Expressions. With the new RegExp function, Apatar users can specify patterns for complex string search and get substrings that match a custom Regular Expression limited by the pair of brackets. Users can also specify the rules for a set of possible strings (sentences, e-mail addresses, etc.) to match and create string substitutions. The new function can be used for validating e-mails, grouping and identifying pieces of the matching substring, and more.

Apatar Open Source Data Integration Improves the Quality of Customer Data with StrikeIron US Address Verification

April 03, 2008, Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, announced the official release of its new StrikeIron US Address Verification connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. Using StrikeIron’s US Address Verification Web service, the new feature relies on United States Postal Service-certified technology to verify, correct, and enhance any address in the United States with live data. It cleans customer data before it gets into CRM/ERP systems, databases, flat files, and RSS feeds by correcting extracted addresses, adding ZIP+4 data, specifying congressional districts, carrier routes, etc.

Apatar Enables Long Text Data Types

May 28, 2008, Chicopee, MA - Project Apatar has announced a new data type, Long Text, for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration application. The new feature enables you to use text strings of unlimited length when working with Apatar. The Long Text data type also makes Apatar compatible with other large-sized text data types, such as Long Varchar, that involve fetching more characters than regular text strings.

Apatar Announces Proxy Connection

March 17, 2008, Chicopee, MA - Apatar Open Source Data Integration project has announced proxy connection for its Salesforce.com connector. Now Apatar can successfully connect to SFDC behind a firewall. Proxy authorization is also available through Apatar, that is, you can specify your secure proxy login and password. Proxy configuration can be found in the File menu of the main Apatar application window.

Apatar to Speak on Enterprise 2.0 and Data Mashups at AJAXWorld on March 20, 2008

Renat Khasanshyn, the founder and CEO of Apatar, will present a session called, “Enterprise 2.0 and Data Mashups: Bridging the Web 2.0 Information Gap” at AJAXWorld Conference and Expo on March 20, 2008, in New York City, at the Roosevelt Hotel

February 14, 2008, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, has been selected to speak at the AJAXWorld Conference and Expo held on March 18-20, 2008, in New York City, at the Roosevelt Hotel.

Apatar Open Source Data Integration Announces Alliance with EnterpriseDB

Alliance Enables Integration of Information in EnterpriseDB Databases with Information in Other Databases, CRM/ERP Applications, Flat Files, RSS Feeds, and Top Web 2.0 Destinations Without Having to Write a Single Line of a Code

February 5, 2008, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, today announced a technology and marketing alliance with EnterpriseDB, the Oracle-compatible database company. Under the alliance, Apatar will support EnterpriseDB’s Postgres-based database products as both sources and targets of data integration initiatives.

Apatar Data Integration Improves the Quality of Customer Data with StrikeIron Email Verification

New Apatar Connector Helps Companies to Easily Clean Customer Data Before It Enters CRM/ERP Systems, Databases, Flat Files, and RSS Feeds, All Without Coding

January 21, 2008, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, today officially announced StrikeIron Email Verification connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. The new feature is designed to instantly determine the validity of an e-mail address or domain using StrikeIron Web Services.

Apatar Enables Custom SQL Queries During ETL Process

December 28, 2007 - Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc., a provider of open source data integration software, has announced an ability to perform custom SQL queries during ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load) process. This new feature gives DBAs and Apatar users more flexibility and allows to enhance ETL features that are not implemented in the native Apatar application code.

Apatar Announces Connectivity to Microsoft SQL 2005

November 21, 2007, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc. announced connectivity to Microsoft SQL 2005. The improved MS SQL connector allows now reading and writing data from/to MS SQL 2005 tables. Now Apatar enables its users to easily link Microsoft SQL 2005 information between files (CSV/TXT), databases (such as MySQL, Microsoft Access, Oracle), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3, RSS feeds).

Apatar Open Source Data Integration Announces Partnership with MySQL AB

The New Alliance Makes It Easier for Companies to Integrate MySQL-based Solutions with Other Data Sources, such as Databases, CRM/ERP Applications, Flat Files, RSS Feeds, and Top Web 2.0 Destinations

Apatar and StrikeIron to Connect Open Source with Data Quality

Apatar to add data quality capabilities to Apatar Open Source Data Integration, starting with StrikeIron’s Email and Address Verification Web services

Apatar Introduces Open Source Data Integration Solution for Salesforce.com's AppExchange

October 30, 2007, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, the open source leader in data mashup integration, today announced the availability of the Apatar Data Integration solution on salesforce.com's AppExchange, the world's first on-demand application directory. Apatar enables salesforce.com customers to simplify and accelerate their integration projects, and for a fraction of the cost than using traditional data integration solutions.

Apatar Enables Data Sync Between SFDC and 3rd Parties

October 25, 2007, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, announced data synchonization with Apatar software between SalesForce.com and 3rd-party data sources. The new feature allows users to have their SalesForce.com data synchronized with a number of databases (such as MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MS Access), applications (SugarCRM), and files (.CSV/.TXT). Using the synchronization mode, it is possible to automatically update or delete records in SFDC account, once the information is changed at the data source.

Apatar Debuts Open Source On-Demand Data Integration Offering At LinuxWorld

Chicopee, MA – Apatar, Inc., the first provider of open source, on-demand data integration software tools and services, announced today that Renat Khasanshyn, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, has been named as a finalist in the Mass Technology Leadership Council’s 2007 Technology Leadership Awards in the category of Emerging Executive of the Year.

Chicopee, MA – Apatar, Inc., the first provider of open source, on-demand data integration software tools and services, announced today that Renat Khasanshyn, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, has been named as a finalist in the Mass Technology Leadership Council’s 2007 Technology Leadership Awards in the category of Emerging Executive of the Year.

Apatar Data Integration Announces RSS Aggregation

August 8, 2007, Chicopee, MA - Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, announced Aggregation module for Apatar Open Source Data Integration software. The new feature allows aggregating data from multiple sources and enables Apatar users to easily aggregate information between RSS feeds, files (such as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, CSV/TXT files), databases (MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL, MS Access), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3).

Apatar to Host Data Mashup Contest During OSCON, July 23-27, 2007, in Portland, OR and at LinuxWorld, in San Francisco, CA, August 6-9, 2007

Chicopee, MA – Apatar, Inc, the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, today announced the official launch of the Apatar Data Mashup Contest with an Apple 80GB Video iPod as the main prize. The challenge will take place during two major open source trade shows: the O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), Portland, OR on July 23-27, 2007 and the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, CA on August 6-9, 2007.