The Apatar Team announced the Parse E-mail Body function, which outputs the text of an e-mail body, removing the headers and other system information. The function may be of use, for instance, when migrating contact e-mail history from one CRM system to another or saving customer messages in a legible form. Users also may find it easy to configure the access to a desired mail box and choose the type of messages to be processed (incoming or outcoming).

The Apatar Team launched the Apatar Community Awards (ACA) program that will be held annually in the following three nominations: Top Apatar Developer, Top Datamap Contributor, and Top Forum Member. The awards, created to pay tribute to the efforts and input of Apatar community, will be decided based on the number of features, datamaps, and posts submitted by the most active community members.

Apatar, Inc., the leading provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, officially announced a new blog on the current problems and issues in the world of data integration. Ms. Alena Semeshko, Data Integration Evangelist at Apatar, provides news, tips, ideas, opinions, and thoughts on data integration, mashups, ETL, data quality, application integration (EAI), data management, business intelligence, etc. The readers will also find practical advice on the most controversial issues along with the most up-to-date information on Apatar’s progress.