Alexander Falk
@afalk.bsky.social
Entrepreneur. Investor. Co-founder & CEO of Altova. Co-creator of XMLSpy. District Rotary Foundation Chair 2024-27 of Rotary District 7930.
As a member of both XBRL International and XBRL US and holder of several XBRL Certified Software designations, we've now applied our decades of XBRL experience to creating the most modern and user-friendly visual XBRL Tagging solution in the cloud for ESEF and US GAAP financial reporting.
September 2, 2025 at 7:35 PM
As a member of both XBRL International and XBRL US and holder of several XBRL Certified Software designations, we've now applied our decades of XBRL experience to creating the most modern and user-friendly visual XBRL Tagging solution in the cloud for ESEF and US GAAP financial reporting.
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Unlock Shopify data with new support in MapForce: This tutorial shows how to automate data export from Shopify using its GraphQL APIs—so you can seamlessly integrate it into other systems, ETL pipelines, and automated workflows.
www.altova.com/blog/exporti...
www.altova.com/blog/exporti...
Exporting Products from Shopify as CSV
Graphical tools in MapForce make it easy to export data from Shopify and write it to other formats like XML, databases, or Excel.
www.altova.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Unlock Shopify data with new support in MapForce: This tutorial shows how to automate data export from Shopify using its GraphQL APIs—so you can seamlessly integrate it into other systems, ETL pipelines, and automated workflows.
www.altova.com/blog/exporti...
www.altova.com/blog/exporti...
We're delighted to announce version 2025r2 of our @altova.bsky.social line of developer, data integration, and regulatory tools, which include new features in XMLSpy, MapForce, and RaptorXML Server, including Shopify/GraphQL Support, OpenAPI features, YAML tools, and ESEF Reporting Manual support 🧵
March 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
We're delighted to announce version 2025r2 of our @altova.bsky.social line of developer, data integration, and regulatory tools, which include new features in XMLSpy, MapForce, and RaptorXML Server, including Shopify/GraphQL Support, OpenAPI features, YAML tools, and ESEF Reporting Manual support 🧵
I had the opportunity this past week to catch up with my friend Matthias Troyer, who spent two decades as professor for computational physics at ETH Zürich and currently is a Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President of Quantum Computing at Microsoft.
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March 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I had the opportunity this past week to catch up with my friend Matthias Troyer, who spent two decades as professor for computational physics at ETH Zürich and currently is a Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President of Quantum Computing at Microsoft.
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ETL, which stands for Extract, Transform, Load, is a critical process in data integration and management. It involves extracting data from various sources, transforming it into a usable format through cleansing, aggregation, and conversion, and finally loading it into a target SQL database.
February 17, 2025 at 12:03 AM
ETL, which stands for Extract, Transform, Load, is a critical process in data integration and management. It involves extracting data from various sources, transforming it into a usable format through cleansing, aggregation, and conversion, and finally loading it into a target SQL database.
Watch our new MapForce tutorial video:
ETL Basics - How to Import, Clean up, and Transform data from CSV files into a Database
youtu.be/ONb97UUNrxE
ETL Basics - How to Import, Clean up, and Transform data from CSV files into a Database
youtu.be/ONb97UUNrxE
ETL Basics: How to Import CSV Data into a Database
YouTube video by Altova
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January 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Watch our new MapForce tutorial video:
ETL Basics - How to Import, Clean up, and Transform data from CSV files into a Database
youtu.be/ONb97UUNrxE
ETL Basics - How to Import, Clean up, and Transform data from CSV files into a Database
youtu.be/ONb97UUNrxE
Good morning sunshine
January 2, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Good morning sunshine
Happy New Year 45²
December 31, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Happy New Year 45²
Jakob Lena Knebl & Markus Pires Mata:
LUCKY LADY, 2023
LUCKY LADY, 2023
December 28, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Jakob Lena Knebl & Markus Pires Mata:
LUCKY LADY, 2023
LUCKY LADY, 2023
On the RailJetX to Vienna... 🚄
December 28, 2024 at 9:47 AM
On the RailJetX to Vienna... 🚄
In Linz beginnts...
December 28, 2024 at 9:43 AM
In Linz beginnts...
Train is ½ hour late...
December 28, 2024 at 9:42 AM
Train is ½ hour late...
We’ve just released something very cool: the ability to easily run Altova server products in Docker. We are now providing a project on GitHub that provides:
- Pre-configured `compose.yaml` file and `Dockerfile` for all products
- An automated setup process for creating Docker images and containers
- Pre-configured `compose.yaml` file and `Dockerfile` for all products
- An automated setup process for creating Docker images and containers
December 19, 2024 at 3:04 PM
We’ve just released something very cool: the ability to easily run Altova server products in Docker. We are now providing a project on GitHub that provides:
- Pre-configured `compose.yaml` file and `Dockerfile` for all products
- An automated setup process for creating Docker images and containers
- Pre-configured `compose.yaml` file and `Dockerfile` for all products
- An automated setup process for creating Docker images and containers
The PDF Extractor in the latest MapForce version 2025 now includes a text search functionality that allows you to pinpoint precisely where you want to start extracting #data, such as tables, from a #PDF document for your ETL processes:
www.altova.com/blog/text-se...
www.altova.com/blog/text-se...
Text Search for Precise PDF Data Extraction
When defining rules for extracting data from PDFs, it's helpful to use a text search to zero-in on specific content or patterns.
www.altova.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:48 PM
The PDF Extractor in the latest MapForce version 2025 now includes a text search functionality that allows you to pinpoint precisely where you want to start extracting #data, such as tables, from a #PDF document for your ETL processes:
www.altova.com/blog/text-se...
www.altova.com/blog/text-se...
December 31, 2023 at 2:44 PM
Midjourney v6 is really insanely good...
December 23, 2023 at 3:02 AM
Midjourney v6 is really insanely good...
We recently released two new videos demonstrating different aspects of batch-processing for data transformation/conversion tasks that need to work on large amounts of files in MapForce. Check out this blog post and the corresponding two new videos on YouTube:
www.altova.com/blog/batch-d...
www.altova.com/blog/batch-d...
How to Create Batch Data Mapping Projects
Batch-to-batch and batch-to-one are common scenarios in data integration & ETL projects. Check out these batch data mapping how-to videos.
www.altova.com
December 19, 2023 at 10:36 PM
We recently released two new videos demonstrating different aspects of batch-processing for data transformation/conversion tasks that need to work on large amounts of files in MapForce. Check out this blog post and the corresponding two new videos on YouTube:
www.altova.com/blog/batch-d...
www.altova.com/blog/batch-d...
Need some AI help while working with SQL? You can now use our AI-Assistant in DatabaseSpy to help your write SQL queries, create tables, fill them with sample data, or get complex SQL queries and error messages explained to you!
www.altova.com/blog/ai-read...
www.altova.com/blog/ai-read...
December 9, 2023 at 9:36 PM
Need some AI help while working with SQL? You can now use our AI-Assistant in DatabaseSpy to help your write SQL queries, create tables, fill them with sample data, or get complex SQL queries and error messages explained to you!
www.altova.com/blog/ai-read...
www.altova.com/blog/ai-read...
Sometimes, with the right equipment, you can take a photo of the moon not just in our dimension, but also in a parallel universe...
#multiverse #moonshadow
#multiverse #moonshadow
November 28, 2023 at 12:15 AM
Sometimes, with the right equipment, you can take a photo of the moon not just in our dimension, but also in a parallel universe...
#multiverse #moonshadow
#multiverse #moonshadow
Now that all the New England ski resorts are opening up one after the other, this scene will repeat itself in various locations this coming week... 🐻🦃⛷😆
November 16, 2023 at 11:27 PM
Now that all the New England ski resorts are opening up one after the other, this scene will repeat itself in various locations this coming week... 🐻🦃⛷😆
Check out the new 🤖 AI-Assistant in @altova.bsky.social XMLSpy 2024 for all your #XML, #JSON, Schema, etc. development needs: www.altova.com/blog/ai-tool... you can immediately utilize the new GPT-4 Turbo preview model that was just announced at the #OpenAIDevDay last week!!! 👌
November 13, 2023 at 5:26 PM
Check out the new 🤖 AI-Assistant in @altova.bsky.social XMLSpy 2024 for all your #XML, #JSON, Schema, etc. development needs: www.altova.com/blog/ai-tool... you can immediately utilize the new GPT-4 Turbo preview model that was just announced at the #OpenAIDevDay last week!!! 👌
The new Altova MapForce PDF Extractor makes it easy to define rules for extracting data from PDF files in a structured format to make it available for mapping to other formats like Excel, XML, JSON, databases, and more. Check out our new blog post and video tutorial:
www.altova.com/blog/extract...
www.altova.com/blog/extract...
Extract Data for PDF Mapping
Learn about the new MapForce PDF Extractor, a visual tool for extracting PDF data in a structured format ready for data integration and ETL.
www.altova.com
November 6, 2023 at 7:55 PM
The new Altova MapForce PDF Extractor makes it easy to define rules for extracting data from PDF files in a structured format to make it available for mapping to other formats like Excel, XML, JSON, databases, and more. Check out our new blog post and video tutorial:
www.altova.com/blog/extract...
www.altova.com/blog/extract...
Ever encountered a SQL query that someone else wrote and you now have to maintain. And when you look at it today, it makes your mind go "wtf"?
DatabaseSpy now has an AI-Assistant feature that lets you ask ChatGPT to explain any SQL query to you in plain English....
www.altova.com/databasespy/...
DatabaseSpy now has an AI-Assistant feature that lets you ask ChatGPT to explain any SQL query to you in plain English....
www.altova.com/databasespy/...
October 27, 2023 at 6:48 AM
Ever encountered a SQL query that someone else wrote and you now have to maintain. And when you look at it today, it makes your mind go "wtf"?
DatabaseSpy now has an AI-Assistant feature that lets you ask ChatGPT to explain any SQL query to you in plain English....
www.altova.com/databasespy/...
DatabaseSpy now has an AI-Assistant feature that lets you ask ChatGPT to explain any SQL query to you in plain English....
www.altova.com/databasespy/...