May 16, 2008, Chicopee, MA – Apatar team announced the ability to set custom date and time formats within Apatar Open Source Data Integration application. With this new feature, Apatar users can write and compare records of date and time formats that differ from their default system settings or other user formats. As a result, Apatar provides users with more compatibility and flexibility during integration of data that contans date and time records, especially within cross-cultural environments and applications. One does not need to know the exact format of date and time stored in the database or stick to the formats defined by other users. Instead, Apatar users can work with dates and time records using the formats that are common within their native countries or regions.

Date and Time Settings user guide:

http://apatarforge.org/wiki/display/AUG/Date+and+Time+Settings

Apatar Benefits

- Reduced integration and maintenance costs
- Improve data quality
- Shorten implementation time
- Eliminate custom coding
- Synchronization across multiple interfaces (on-premises, on-demand, mobile)
- The ability to personalize RSS feeds for workgroup collaboration, opportunity tracking, business and competitive intelligence, and project management
- No custom coding!
- The ability to create, publish, share, and re-use data transformations and output to RSS feeds by monitoring keywords and URLs for both internal and external systems

General Features

- Visual job designer and mapping enable non-developers to design and perform data transformations.
- Aggregating and reading RSS content
- Connectivity to Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL, Sybase, Microsoft Access, PostgreSQL, InstantDB, BorlandJDataStore, Csv, Qed, HSQL, Compiere ERP, SalesForce.com, SugarCRM, Goldmine, Microsoft Excel, XML, RSS, ATOM, FTP, POP3, LDAP, Autodesk Buzzsaw, WebDav, any JDBC data sources, Amazon S3, Flickr, EnterpriseDB, Dbase, StrikeIron Web Services
- Job scheduler
- Single interface to manage all your integration projects
- Flexible deployment options
- Bi-directional integration
- Platform-independent, runs from Windows and Linux; 100% Java-based
- Easy customization, source code included
- Real-time e-mail, phone number, and postal address verification
- Flexible custom date and time settings

About Apatar

Apatar is the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market. With powerful Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) capabilities, Apatar enables its users to easily link information between databases (such as MySQL, Microsoft SQL, Oracle), applications (Salesforce.com, SugarCRM), and the top Web 2.0 destinations (Flickr, Amazon S3). Apatar provides support, training, and consulting services for its integration solutions. Headquartered in Western Massachusetts, Apatar operates a development center in Minsk, Belarus. Apatar is currently used by 3000+ organizations and individuals worldwide. For more on Apatar, please visit www.apatar.com and www.apatarforge.org.