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ALTOVA RECOGNIZED AS SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT INDUSTRY LEADER AND INNOVATOR FOR THE FIFTH CONSECUTIVE YEAR BEVERLY, Mass., July 25, 2007 – Altova® (www.altova.com), creator of XMLSpy® and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, today announced that it has been named to the 2007 SD Times 100 list of leaders and innovators in the software development industry. The company was honored in the Tools and Environments category for the fifth consecutive year. In its award citation, SD Times states that XMLSpy is still awesome, but the vision has expanded to include transformation, query, Web services and application design.
According to David Rubinstein, Editor-in-Chief of SD Times, “The winners of this year’s SD Times 100 awards have demonstrated their leadership in shaping the software development industry. We took into account each nominee’s products and services, its reputation among development managers, and the new ideas it brought out. These select individuals and organizations are the ones we’ve identified as helping to move the art of development forward.”
“Altova is known for top software tools and for constantly introducing useful new capabilities for developers and data management pros,” said Alexander Falk, President and CEO for Altova. “From our support for Open XML in XMLSpy and Web services data integration in MapForce to all 13 UML 2.1 diagrams in UModel and even a brand new database query and design tool called DatabaseSpy, Altova is delivering a lot of value this year. It is an honor to be recognized by the editors at SD Times for these accomplishments, and it’s especially rewarding to have made this prestigious list for the fifth year in a row! ”
The fifth annual SD Times 100 is featured in the June 1, 2007 issue of BZ Media’s SD Times. The complete awards details are also available online at: http://www.sdtimes.com.
Complimenting the SD Times 100, Altova has won a number of product awards recently. Altova XMLSpy won the Best of Microsoft Tech*Ed award in the Developer Tools and Technologies category, and XMLSpy was also honored with Readers’ Choice awards from both Visual Studio Magazine and asp.netPRO Magazine. Additionally, AltovaXML was named the Best XSLT Processor in SOA World Magazine’s Readers’ Choice awards, and Altova products were honored in several other categories as well. A complete list of Altova awards can be found at: http://www.altova.com/awards
About BZ Media LLC
BZ Media LLC (www.bzmedia.com) is a New York-based media company combining the best of print and Internet publishing with industry-leading technical conferences and expositions. BZ Media’s SD Times (www.sdtimes.com) is the twice monthly newspaper of record for the software development industry. SD Times reaches more than 55,000 subscribers in 131 countries.
About Altova
Altova accelerates application development and data management projects with software and solutions that enhance productivity and maximize results. As an innovative, customer-focused company and the creator of XMLSpy and other leading XML, data management, UML, and Web services tools, Altova is the choice of over 3 million clients worldwide, including more than 91 percent of the Fortune 500 companies. Enabling customers ranging from vast development teams in the world’s largest organizations to progressive one-person shops, Altova’s line of software tools fulfills a broad spectrum of business needs. Altova is an active member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Object Management Group (OMG) and is committed to delivering standards-based platform-independent solutions that are powerful, affordable, and easy to use. Altova was founded in 1992 and has headquarters in Beverly, Massachusetts and Vienna, Austria. Visit Altova on the Web at: http://www.altova.com
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