Altova is a commercial software development company with headquarters in Beverly, MA, United States and Vienna, Austria, that produces integrated XML, JSON, database, UML, and data management software development tools.

[2] The CEO and president of Altova is Alexander Falk,[3] 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] 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[6] and other tasks such as query execution.

[7] Examples of Altova software includes the XML editor XMLSpy,[8] and MapForce, a data mapping tool.

[9][10] Altova has also added XBRL capable programs to its XML software line,[11] including development tools.