Release 5.0 of the Progress(R) DataDirect(R) Data Integration Suite Provides Out-of-the-Box Support for IATA Cargo Interchange Message Procedures for Uniformity, Accuracy and Economy of Cargo Data
BEDFORD, MA, Oct. 19, 2009 (Marketwire) --
BEDFORD, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 10/19/09 -- Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), announces the latest release of the Progress® DataDirect® Data Integration Suite featuring updated support for industry standards and new features for automating and simplifying Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) processing for a variety of commercial industries. Now included in release 5.0 of the DataDirect Data Integration Suite is conformity with the latest standard for cargo data-exchange automation developed by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), its member airlines and the Air Transport Association of America (ATA).
Designed to meet the data transformation and aggregation needs of developers, the DataDirect Data Integration Suite contains XML-component technologies for data integration and service-oriented environments including DataDirect XQuery®, DataDirect XML Converters® and Stylus Studio®. Release 5.0 of the robust, highly flexible, single installation features new functionality to help reduce the need for manual coding and accelerate the delivery of mission-critical information to enterprise-applications and throughout trading partner networks.
Cargo data-exchange automation between airlines and other parties works efficiently only if universal messaging procedures are applied. To support a paper-free environment and the uniformity, accuracy and economy of cargo data exchange, IATA has created the Cargo Interchange Message Procedures (Cargo-IMP). This official message source supports specifications concerning space allocation, air waybill, flight manifest, accounting, status, discrepancy, embargo, customs, CASS billing, dangerous goods, allotments and surface transportation.
Using DataDirect XML Converters, the easily embeddable, high-performance Java(TM) and .NET components available in the DataDirect Data Integration Suite products, developers working in the transportation and logistics industry can now covert IATA Cargo-IMP transactions into ready-to-use XML for accelerated processing, improved application performance and streamlined information-sharing between the airlines and business partners. Release 5.0 of the DataDirect Data Integration Suite supports all message types in the IATA Cargo-IMP Manual 27th Edition.
In addition to IATA Cargo-IMP, the DataDirect Data Integration Suite offers bi-directional, streaming conversion for myriad legacy EDI and flat-file types into XML and supports a wide variety of published EDI standards including: EDIFACT, HL7, IATA (PADIS), IATA Cargo-FACT, ASC X12, EANCOM, Edig@s, TRADACOMS, NCPDP and HIPAA.
