PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
From: Crystal Software Australia http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au
Contact: Simon Carter, +61-3 9888-3104, mail@crystalsoftware.com.au
Date: 18th August 2000
CUT TIME MANUALLY FIXING DATA / TEXT!
Melbourne, Australia - August 18, 2000 - Crystal Software
Corporation has announced TextPipe 5.1, an update of its text cleansing and
transformation workbench for data warehousing, web site maintenance and
electronic text processing.
TextPipe solves common data cleansing problems with exact
matching, pattern matching, sounds-like matching and New edit distance matching
to cleanse typographical errors. Edit distance matching replaces a target word
when the number of character swaps, inserts or deletes from a selected word is
below a chosen threshold. Improve data quality in data loading tasks with
cleansing scripts defined in VBScript and JScript.
TextPipe automates complex text changes and reformatting
across entire web sites, source code and text or binary files over 2GB. All
transformation changes are documented in detailed audit logs.
New 'Shallow' XML parsing manipulates XML files larger than
available memory, and allows search and replace in text subsets like line
ranges, column ranges, CSV fields, tab-delimited fields, lines matching a
pattern, search results etc.
Extract data from ADO/ODBC data sources in XML, fixed width,
CSV or tab delimited format, transform it and insert into second database. Fix
DOS, Mac, Unix and Mainframe end-of-lines, sort, split, merge and much
more.
TextPipe is a low cost alternative to complicated and
time-consuming hand-coded solutions. Developers can rapidly design, test and
re-use transformations for complex collections of irregular data.
AVAILABILITY
TextPipe costs $70 for a single-user version, and a free
30-day evaluation edition is also available for download. Volume discounts and
Company, Site and Educational editions are also available.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
TextPipe requires Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and 16MB of memory.
The download file is 2.2 MB. Installation requires 3 MB disk space.
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Founded in 1990, Crystal Software Corporation has its
headquarters in Melbourne, Australia. The company sells directly to VARs and
companies over the Internet and via fax and mail order. Crystal Software's
technology is also licensed to strategic partners within Australia. Its charter
is to provide IT professionals with time saving data analysis tools. It has
developed eight commercial software titles. For more information visit www.crystalsoftware.com.au
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Editors: Review copies are available on request. Evaluation copies can be
downloaded from http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/textpipepro.exe
Screen shot: http://www.crystalsoftware.com.au/images/textpipe_screen.gif
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