1992 headquarters beverly ma and vienna austria area served worldwide key people alexander falk website altova homepage founded in 1992 altova is a commercial software development company with headquarters in beverly ma united states and vienna austria that produces integrated xml database uml and data management software development tools . contents 1 company 2 programs 3 awards 4 see also 5 references 6 external links company edit altova was founded in 1992 as an xml development software company . 1 its software is used by more than 4 million users 1 and more than 100 000 companies globally 2 including 91 % of all fortune 500 companies . 3 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 . 2 the ceo and president of altova is alexander falk 4 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 . 5 falk is also the inventor behind altova s patents . 6 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 7 and other tasks such as query execution . 8 examples of altova software includes the xml editor xmlspy 9 and mapforce a data mapping tool . 10 11 altova has also added xbrl capable programs to its xml software line 12 including development tools . 13 in addition they have included web services description language 14 project management and unified modeling language capabilities to their software . 15 most recently the company has introduced a mobile development environment called mobiletogether for developing cross platform enterprise mobile solutions . 16 programs edit xmlspy xml editor for modeling editing transforming and debugging xml technologies 17 mapforce any to any graphical data mapping conversion and integration tool 17 mapforce flextext graphical utility for parsing flat files stylevision multipurpose visual xslt stylesheet design multi channel publishing and report building tool 18 umodel uml modeling tool 19 databasespy multi database data management query and design tool 7 diffdog xml aware file directory and database differencing tool 10 schemaagent graphical xml schema xslt wsdl and management tool 17 authentic wysiwyg xml authoring tool and database content editor 20 missionkit altova s integrated suite of xml sql and uml software tools 10 mobiletogether cross platform mobile development environment for native apps for the enterprise 16 flowforce server server software for managing automation of business processes 21 raptorxml server xml and xbrl server with support for xml validation xbrl validation and xslt and xquery processing 22 awards edit named to the sd times 100 six times including in 2010 23 2009 gartner cool vendor in application development 24 2009 visual studio magazine readers choice award winner 25 2009 windows it pro magazine editor s best developmental tool silver award 26 2007 windows it pro magazine best of connections award office category 27 2001 2003 2004 2009 2014 jolt product excellence & productivity awards 28 see also edit xmlspy references edit a b ilija u a july 28 2009 . an interview with altova . xbrl blog magazine . retrieved february 6 2013 . a b alex woodie march 2 2010 . altova adds db2 400 support to xml development . it jungle . retrieved february 6 2013 . altova . crunchbase . retrieved february 6 2013 . altova adds support for health and financial industry specific regulatory standards . database trends and applications . october 28 2009 . retrieved february 6 2013 . michael desmond november 11 2009 . altova updates missionkit suite . visual studio magazine . retrieved february 6 2013 . patent us 7200816 . april 3 2007 . retrieved february 6 2013 . a b sean mccown april 9 2007 . altova databasespy makes dbs user friendly . infoworld . retrieved february 6 2013 . scott mitchell october 2007 . manage databases easier ftp and clustered caching . msdn magazine . retrieved february 6 2013 . john k. waters may 15 2008 . javaone wrap up new products from dotfx canoo coverity infragistics more . application development trends . retrieved february 6 2013 . a b c adrian bridgwater february 22 2011 . altova aims for eye catching xml power . dr. dobb s journal . retrieved february 6 2013 . jeff levinson august 28 2008 . performing comparisons with team foundation server . visual studio magazine . retrieved february 6 2013 . ken cox march 1 2009 . altova missionkit boasts xbrl savvy . visual studio magazine . retrieved february 6 2013 . joab jackson may 19 2009 . nevada tags financial data . gcn magazine . retrieved february 6 2013 . news briefs . sd times . december 1 2009 . retrieved february 6 2013 . t. michael testi february 10 2010 . software review umodel 2010 from altova . retrieved february 6 2013 . a b david ramel may 20 2014 . mobile development product watch cross platform is king . adt magazine . retrieved september 22 2014 . a b c altova simplifies building web services . computerwoche . february 15 2006 . retrieved february 6 2013 . david utter june 27 2006 . three is the magic xml number . webpronews . retrieved february 6 2013 . john dorsey september 13 2007 . altova tools add ooxml and improved database support . dr. dobb s journal . retrieved february 6 2013 . adrian bridgwater september 24 2012 . altova conjures up xml alchemy . dr. dobb s journal . retrieved february 6 2013 . andrew nusca april 30 2013 . altova debuts enterprise server software trio . zdnet . retrieved august 27 2013 . david rubinstein april 24 2013 . altova announces raptorxml validation server . sd times . retrieved august 27 2013 . the sd times 100 2010 a noble gathering of leaders . the sd times 100 2010 a noble gathering of leaders cool vendors in application development new tools . gartner report . 2009 . in depth 2009 readers choice awards . visual studio magazine . august 1 2009 . retrieved february 6 2013 . 2009 windows it pro editors best and community choice awards . windows it pro magazine . november 19 2009 . retrieved february 6 2013 . amy eisenberg november 7 2007 . best of connections 2007 winners . windows it pro magazine . jolt product excellence & productivity awards . retrieved february 6 2013 . external links edit altova web site description of altova xmlspy german retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title altova & oldid 744168100 categories development software companiessoftware companies of austria navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload 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