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They develop and distribute software products concerned with [[numerical analysis]], [[business intelligence]] and data distribution.

The company's main software products is the [[World Programming System]] (WPS or WPS Analytics).<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldprogramming.com/about_us/company |title=www.worldprogramming.com/about_us/company |accessdate=2 June 2016 |author=World Programming Ltd |date=2 June 2016}}</ref> The software was the subject of [[SAS Institute lawsuit with World Programming|a lawsuit by SAS Institute]]. The [[European Court of Justice|EU Court of Justice]] ruled in favor of World Programming, stating that the copyright protection does not extend to the software functionality, the programming language used and the format of the data files used by the program. It stated that there is no copyright infringement when a company which does not have access to the source code of a program studies, observes and tests that program to create another program with the same functionality.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-02/copyright-can-t-block-software-reverse-engineering-court.html | title = Copyright Can't Block Software Reverse Engineering: Court | author = Aoife White | publisher = Bloomberg | date = 2012-05-02 | accessdate = 2012-05-02 }}</ref>

[[WPS Analytics]] is unique in it's ability to bring together a variety of coding languages under one platform. Their recently released WPS HUB provides centralised user management including data access credentials.

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