Apatar, Inc., which provides open-source software tools for the data-integration market, has announced connectivity to IBM DB2. The new platform-independent connector for the Apatar toolset lets developers read and write data to and from DB2 tables and improves the quality of data during integration, all without custom coding. With the new release, users can easily link DB2 information between third-party applications (such as Salesforce.com and SugarCRM), other databases (such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL, and MySQL), flat files (such as CSV/TXT), and top Web 2.0 destinations (such as Flickr, Amazon S3, and RSS feeds). Apatar relies on job scheduler and synchronization to automate the data-integration process, improves data quality with a variety of verification, filtration, and validation features, and gives users the ability to create, share, and re-use prebuilt data transformations and publish data-integration output as a custom RSS feed to ApatarForge, the online Apatar community.