World Programming is a private limited company headquartered in the
UK.
They tend to develop and distribute software products concerned with
numerical analysis
Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of numerical methods th ...
,
business intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) comprises the strategies and technologies used by enterprises for the data analysis and management of business information. Common functions of business intelligence technologies include reporting, online analytical pr ...
and data distribution.
The company's main software products is the
World Programming System
The World Programming System, also known as WPS Analytics or WPS, is a software product developed by a company called World Programming (acquired by Altair Engineering).
WPS Analytics supports users of mixed ability to access and process data ...
(WPS or WPS Analytics). The software was the subject of
a lawsuit by SAS Institute. The
EU Court of Justice ruled in favor of World Programming, stating that the copyright protection does not extend to the software functionality, the programming language used, and the format of the data files used by the program. It stated that there is no copyright infringement, when a company which does not have access to the source code of a program studies, observes and tests that program to create another program with the same functionality.
In December 2021,
Altair Engineering announced that it would acquire World Programming on 15th December 2021.
[{{cite news , url = https://www.altair.com/newsroom/news-releases/altair-acquires-world-programming-to-advance-organizations-digital-transformation/ , title = Altair Acquires World Programming to Advance Organizations’ Digital Transformation , author = Altair Newsroom, publisher = Altair Engineering , date = 2021-12-15 , accessdate = 2021-12-15 ]
References
Software companies of the United Kingdom