Altova

Founded in 1992, Altova is a commercial software development company with headquarters in Beverly, MA, USA and Vienna, Austria that produces integrated XML, UML, and data management software development tools. Their flagship product is the XMLSpy XML editor and development environment, though they have recently broadened their product line to include data integration, UML, and Web services development tools and removed their free XMLSpy Home Edition. [ [http://reddevnews.com/news/devnews/article.aspx?editorialsid=1042 "Altova Refreshes XML Suite", "Redmond Developer News"] May 2008] Their Authentic product is still available under a free license, and all other products are available for a free, 30-day trial.

Products

Altova’s products include: [ [http://www.altova.com/products.html Altova website] ]

* XMLSpy — XML editor for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML technologies
* MapForce — graphical data mapping, conversion, and integration tool
** MapForce FlexText — graphical utility for parsing flat files
* StyleVision — multipurpose visual stylesheet design tool
* UModel — UML modeling tool
* DatabaseSpy — multi-database data management, query, and design tool
* DiffDog — XML-aware file and directory differencing tool
* SchemaAgent — graphical XML Schema, XSLT, WSDL and management tool
* SemanticWorks — visual RDF and OWL editor
* Authentic — free WYSIWYG XML authoring tool and database content editor
* MissionKit - Altova's software bundle, available in a variety of different configurations

Key features of Altova products

* Altova’s products have a reputation for being highly graphical and responsive [ [http://reddevnews.com/reports/article.aspx?editorialsid=826 "Hands-On Product Report" "Redmond Developer News"] October 2007] , and are targeted toward non-technical staff as well as software developers [ [http://www.altova.com/company_overview.html Altova website] ] .
* Altova XML tools are standards-conformant with established standards released by the W3C such as XML, DTD, XML Schema, XSLT 1.0/2.0, XPath 1.0/2.0, WSDL, SOAP, XQuery, XHTML, RDF, and OWL. [ [http://www.altova.com/XSLT_XPath_XQuery_020707.html Altova website] ]
* Altova products generate code in multiple formats (XSLT, XQuery, Java, C++, and C#) that run on many different operating systems. [ [http://webservices.sys-con.com/read/114129.htm Product Review: Altova Enterprise Suite "SOA World Magazine"] August 2005]
* Altova has recently added support for Office Open XML, the document format used in Microsoft Office 2007, to four of its tools: XMLSpy, MapForce, StyleVision, and DiffDog. [ [http://www.xmlaficionado.com/search/label/Office%20Open%20XML "TechEd, Open XML, and HDR Photography" "XML Aficionado"] June 9, 2008]

ee also

* XML
* XML Schema
* XMLSpy
* Alexander Falk

External links

* [http://www.altova.com Altova Web site]
* [http://www.xmlaficionado.com XML Aficionado] , blog of Altova CEO, Alexander Falk

References