Altova is a commercial software development company with headquarters in

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, that produces integrated

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing data. It defines a set of rules for encoding electronic document, documents in a format that is both human-readable and Machine-r ...

JSON JSON (JavaScript Object Notation, pronounced or ) is an open standard file format and electronic data interchange, data interchange format that uses Human-readable medium and data, human-readable text to store and transmit data objects consi ...

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and a ...

, UML, and

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software development tools.

Company

Altova was founded in 1992 as an XML development software company. Its software is used by more than 4 million users and more than 100,000 companies globally. The first product was XMLSpy, and around the year 2000, Altova began to develop new tools to augment XMLSpy and expand into new areas of software development. The CEO and president of Altova is Alexander Falk, who has explained that the development of Altova software has occurred through the inclusion of features most requested by the users of previous program incarnations. Falk is also the inventor behind Altova's patents. Altova software attempts to increase the efficiency of program use in order to reduce the amount of time needed for users to learn database software and other tasks such as query execution. Examples of Altova software includes the

editor XMLSpy, and MapForce, a data mapping tool. Altova has also added XBRL capable programs to its XML software line, including development tools. In addition, they have included

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capabilities to their software. Most recently, the company has introduced a mobile development environment called MobileTogether for developing cross-platform enterprise mobile solutions. At the beginning of 2014, the company claimed to have more than 4.6 million users of its software.

Programs

* XMLSpy—

XML editor An XML editor is a markup language editor with added functionality to facilitate the editing of XML. This can be done using a plain text editor, with all the code visible, but XML editors have added facilities like tag completion and menus and bu ...

for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging

technologies * MapForce—any-to-any graphical

data mapping In computing and data management, data mapping is the process of creating data element mappings between two distinct data models. Data mapping is used as a first step for a wide variety of data integration tasks, including: * Data transforma ...

, conversion, and integration tool ** MapForce FlexText—graphical utility for parsing flat files * StyleVision—multipurpose visual XSLT stylesheet design, multi-channel publishing, and report building tool * UModel— UML modeling tool *

DatabaseSpy DatabaseSpy is a multi-database query, design, and database comparison tool from Altova, the creator of XMLSpy. DatabaseSpy connects to many major relational databases, facilitating SQL querying, database structure design, database content ...

—multi-database

, query, and design tool * DiffDog—XML-aware file, directory, and database differencing tool * SchemaAgent — graphical

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XSLT XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) is a language originally designed for transforming XML documents into other XML documents, or other formats such as HTML for web pages, plain text, or XSL Formatting Objects. These formats c ...

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and management tool * Authentic—

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XML authoring tool and database content editor * MissionKit—Altova's integrated suite of XML, SQL, and UML software tools * MobileTogether—Cross-platform mobile development environment for native apps for the enterprise * FlowForce Server—Server software for managing automation of business processes * RaptorXML Server—XML and XBRL server with support for

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validation, and

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XQuery XQuery (XML Query) is a query language and functional programming language designed to query and transform collections of structured and unstructured data, primarily in the form of XML. It also supports text data and, through implementation-sp ...

processing

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External links

Altova Web site
Development software companies Software companies of Austria

Company

Programs

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