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Various development, acceptance and production; database, application and web servers

Application server is an operating-system, web-server, or infrastructure platform used to run applications, services, and development workflows.

It is commonly used as an operating environment or server platform for running applications, services, and development workflows.

Drupal

Drupal is an open-source CMS and web platform for building structured, content-rich websites and digital experiences with modules, themes, user permissions, taxonomies, and content workflows.

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Joomla

Joomla is an open-source CMS and web publishing platform for building and managing websites with templates, extensions, users, menus, content, and site administration workflows.

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Axis LMS by Atrixware

Axis LMS by Atrixware is Atrixware's learning management system for creating, managing, delivering, and tracking online training. It supports LMS administration, courses, reporting, certificates, instructor-led training, SCORM content, and training operations for organizations.

Axis LMS by Atrixware belongs under Learning Management Systems as a niche LMS platform. The prior generic Atrixware label was normalized to the current product-facing LMS identity while preserving the existing record and relationships.

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Litmos

Litmos is a cloud-based learning management system for delivering, managing, tracking, and reporting on corporate training. It is commonly used for employee onboarding, compliance, partner training, customer education, and skills development.

Litmos belongs under Learning Management Systems because it is a true LMS platform focused on learning delivery, administration, and reporting.

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Inquisiq

Inquisiq is a learning management system for building, delivering, administering, and tracking online and blended training programs. It supports course management, learner administration, reporting, and standards-based content delivery.

Inquisiq belongs under Learning Management Systems because it is an LMS platform. The prior database spelling, Inquisic, was normalized to the current product spelling while preserving the existing record and relationships.

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Absorb LMS

Absorb LMS is a cloud-based learning management system for enterprise training, compliance learning, onboarding, upskilling, and external learning programs. It supports course delivery, learner portals, administration, reporting, and integrations with business systems.

Absorb LMS belongs under Learning Management Systems because it is a true LMS platform. The prior database name, Absorb, was normalized to Absorb LMS for recruiter clarity.

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Articulate Studio

Articulate Studio is the PowerPoint-based classic Articulate authoring suite historically used to convert slide decks into eLearning courses. It is retained under Articulate and Legacy because Articulate has announced end of support for Studio 360 on December 31, 2026, while its product lineage remains useful in historical instructional-design portfolios.

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Audacity

Audacity is a free, open-source, multi-track audio editor and recorder.

It supports content development through recording, editing, cleanup, and export of narration, interviews, podcasts, and training audio assets.

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Adobe Audition

Adobe Audition is Adobe's audio recording, editing, restoration, and mixing application. It supports narration cleanup, podcast-style production, video sound workflows, and training-media audio where clear spoken content is important.

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Author-it

Author-it is a component content management system (CCMS) for structured, reusable, governed, multilingual content.

  • Relevant to technical writing for single-source authoring, content reuse, localization, governance, and enterprise documentation operations.
  • Its strongest homes are Technical Writing & Authoring Tools and Knowledge Management & Content Management Solutions.

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Brainshark

Brainshark is a sales readiness and training platform now associated with Bigtincan Readiness, used for onboarding, coaching, knowledge reinforcement, readiness analytics, and training-content delivery.

For technical training and facilitation, Brainshark is relevant when teams need structured learning content, learner progress visibility, reinforcement activities, and readiness reporting for distributed enterprise audiences.

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Breeze

Macromedia Breeze is software used to create information and general presentations, online training materials, web conferencing, learning modules, and user desktop sharing.

Camtasia

Camtasia is TechSmith's screen recording and video-editing application for creating instructional videos, software demonstrations, tutorials, narrated training media, and polished visual communications. It belongs in TechSmith and learning-media workflows because it connects recording, editing, audio, callouts, and publication into a practical production tool.

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Doc-to-Help

Doc-to-Help is a help-authoring and documentation publishing tool historically used to convert source content into online help and manual outputs.

  • Relevant as a limited supporting / historical technical-writing tool because it reflects legacy help-authoring experience and publishing workflows.
  • Its stronger long-term homes are Knowledge Management and Legacy & Historical Technologies.

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FreeHand

Adobe FreeHand (formerly Macromedia Freehand) is a computer application for creating two-dimensional vector graphics that are oriented primarily to professional illustration, desktop publishing and content creation for the Web.

MadCap Flare

MadCap Flare is a technical documentation and help-authoring platform used to create, manage, review, translate, and publish professional content.

  • Relevant to technical writing for online help, knowledge bases, product documentation, single-sourcing, review workflows, and multi-channel publishing.
  • It also fits knowledge-management contexts where governed documentation is reused across channels.

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Ovation

Ovation is a presentation-practice and speaking-simulation platform used for rehearsing presentations, interviews, roleplay, and difficult conversations with responsive AI avatars and coaching-style feedback. It fits technical training and facilitation better than Miscellaneous because its professional value is presentation rehearsal, communication practice, and learner feedback.

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Quadralay WebWorks

Quadralay WebWorks is a legacy documentation publishing tool associated with transforming authored content into online help and web-based documentation.

  • Relevant as a limited historical technical-writing tool for help publishing and legacy documentation delivery workflows.
  • It should remain in Legacy & Historical Technologies and Knowledge Management while appearing late in Skill 18 only as supporting context.

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uPerform

uPerform is a just-in-time training and performance support platform for creating and delivering software training content at enterprise scale.

It is especially useful for technical enablement because authors can record procedures and publish guides, videos, and step-by-step simulation materials for application rollouts and workflow support.

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xMetaL

xMetaL is an XML authoring environment used for structured content, DITA authoring, and enterprise documentation workflows.

  • Relevant to technical writing for schema-guided authoring, reusable XML content, standards-aligned documentation, and structured publishing.
  • It belongs with DITA / XML tools and knowledge-management platforms.

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Webex

Webex is Cisco's collaboration suite for meetings, webinars, calling, events, and hybrid work experiences.

It belongs in technical training because Webex Meetings, Webex Webinars, and Webex Training support live demonstrations, interactive virtual classrooms, audience engagement, recordings, and scalable session delivery.

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Lectora

Lectora is an eLearning authoring tool from ELB Learning used to create accessible, interactive online learning content.

It is relevant for technical training teams that need standards-based course output, accessibility support, collaborative development, and structured learning-content production.

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Oxygen XML Editor

Oxygen XML Editor is a professional XML editor used for XML authoring, validation, transformation, schema work, structured content, documentation publishing, and data integration workflows.

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UPK User Productivity Kit

Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) is a legacy enterprise content-development, software-simulation, and performance-support platform for documenting application procedures and supporting user adoption.

Although UPK is no longer a modern flagship platform, it remains meaningful historical technical-training experience because it was used for enterprise application rollouts, guided procedures, simulations, and job aids.

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Citrix GoToMeeting

GoToMeeting is a web-hosted service created by Citrix Systems. It is an online meeting, desktop sharing, and video conferencing software that enables the user to meet with other computer users, customers, clients or colleagues via the Internet in real time.

Cisco WebEx Meeting Center

WebEx Communications Inc. is a Cisco acquisition that provides on-demand collaboration, online meeting, web conferencing and videoconferencing applications. Its products include Meeting CenterTraining Center,Event CenterSupport CenterSales CenterMeetMeNowPCNowWebEx AIM Pro Business EditionWebEx WebOffice, and WebEx Connect. All WebEx products are part of the Cisco collaboration portfolio.

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Skype

Skype is a communication, collaboration, meeting, or knowledge-management tool used to support team workflows.

It is commonly used to coordinate communication, meetings, projects, knowledge sharing, or team workflows.

TeamViewer

TeamViewer is a remote access and remote support platform for connecting to computers, assisting users, troubleshooting issues, and supporting distributed work environments. It supports screen sharing, remote control, file transfer, and managed remote-support workflows.

TeamViewer belongs under Collaboration, Conferencing & Communication Tools as a remote support and remote access capability, distinct from meeting platforms and team messaging tools.

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AT&T Connect

AT&T Connect is a Web Conferencing platform offering integrated online web meeting solutions and enabling virtual meetings.

HCL Sametime

HCL Sametime is an enterprise real-time communication platform for secure chat, meetings, audio, video, and related collaboration workflows. It continues the Sametime product lineage formerly associated with IBM.

HCL Sametime belongs under Collaboration, Conferencing & Communication Tools because it supports secure enterprise messaging and meetings. The former IBM Sametime record was normalized to the current HCL product name while retaining historical portfolio value.

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ASP - Active Server Pages

ASP - Active Server Pages also known as Classic ASP, is Microsoft's legacy server-side scripting environment for dynamic web pages on IIS. It is preserved as historical web-development and scripting experience rather than a current Skill 29 technology.

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PHP

PHP is a server-side scripting and programming language used for dynamic websites, web applications, CMS platforms, forms, and database-backed application logic. It remains in Skill 28 because it is a genuine programming language as well as a Web Development technology.

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Java

Java is a general-purpose programming language and runtime platform used for enterprise applications, services, tools, and cross-platform development. It belongs under Programming, Scripting & Markup as a core programming language.

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