Data Mapping and Transformation Facilities

TIBCO Adapter must work with an application-independent transformation engine to provide full adapter functionality:

The primary functionality of TIBCO Adapter is to retrieve data from and export data to a source or target application. An adapter changes the format of the data so that other applications can access the data. Though the data model of a source application might be complicated, the adapter retains much of the source information and makes it easy to access that information.
However, the adapter does not change the content of the data, so two applications might still be incompatible. For example, the name and address of a customer might be stored in five fields in one ERP application and in six fields in another. In this case, you must perform content conversion by using a separate tool.

To meet the requirements of content conversion, TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks provides a graphic interface for data mapping and transformation. The GUI includes a set of tools, such as XPath formula builder, XSLT statement editor, coercions dialog, and so on, with which you can drag functions and data elements to create and modify data transformation rules.