Altova
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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 XMLSpy although they have recently broadened their product line to include data integration, UML, and Web services development tools and removed their free XMLSpy Home Edition (making all their products require a purchased license after a free 30-day trial).
Altova’s products include:
- XMLSpy — XML editor for modeling, editing, transforming, and debugging XML technologies
- MapForce — graphical data mapping and Web services implementation tool
- MapForce FlexText — graphical utility for parsing flat files
- StyleVision — visual stylesheet design tool
- SemanticWorks — visual RDF and OWL editor
- SchemaAgent — graphical schema management tool
- Authentic — free XML / database content editor for non-technical users
- UModel — UML modeling tool
- DatabaseSpy — multi-database data management, query, and design tool
- DiffDog — XML file and directory differencing tool
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[edit] Pros of Altova products
- Altova’s products have a reputation of being highly graphical and responsive, allowing non-technical staff to use these tools
- 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, OWL.
- Recent versions allow non-programmers (PMs, BAs) to graphically build Web services.
- Altova product generate code in multiple formats (XSLT, XQuery, Java, C++, and C#) that run on many different operating systems.
- Altova offers free, instructor-led online training on its tools and supported technologies, as well as extensive documentation and online help.
[edit] Cons of Altova products
- The product line has become complex consisting of 9 different products. Organizations must carefully understand the costs and benefits of each Altova product and the role each team member will play in a project.
