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Microsoft's business-intelligence suite: free Windows Power BI Desktop for modeling and reports, and the Power BI service in Microsoft Fabric for sharing

Open-source learning management system used by universities and schools for courses, assignments, quizzes, grading and forums, self-hosted or via MoodleCloud

React framework from Vercel for full-stack web applications with file-based routing, server components, server-side rendering, static generation and API route handlers

JavaScript data notebooks and the open-source Observable Framework static-site generator for data apps, from the maintainers of D3 and Plot

Modular open-source business suite (CRM, invoicing, accounting, inventory, website, HR) with an LGPL community edition and a hosted or licensed enterprise edition

Open catalog of the global research system: works, authors, sources, institutions and topics under CC0, served by a REST API, web app and S3 snapshot

Collaboratively edited world map database released under the ODbL, with planet files, an editing API and derived tiles and extracts

Free, open-source research management platform from the Center for Open Science for projects, preregistrations, registries, preprint services and linking outputs across storage providers

Collaborative online LaTeX editor with real-time co-editing, templates and reference-manager sync, available as a hosted service and an AGPL self-hosted edition

MIT-licensed interactive charting libraries for Python (plotly.py), JavaScript (plotly.js) and R, plus the Dash framework for analytical web apps

Open-source computational notebook ecosystem: the .ipynb format, kernels for Python, R and Julia, JupyterLab and Notebook interfaces and JupyterHub

Algorithmic trading platform built on the open-source LEAN engine, with cloud backtesting, research notebooks and brokerage-connected live trading

Component-based JavaScript library for building user interfaces, created at Meta, with hooks, a declarative rendering model and server components

Posit's open-source integrated development environment for R, with console, editor, plots, environment panes, Quarto/R Markdown authoring and Python via reticulate

Open-source backend platform built around a dedicated PostgreSQL database with auto-generated APIs, authentication, file storage, realtime subscriptions and edge functions

Salesforce's visual analytics platform: Tableau Desktop authoring (now with a free edition), Tableau Cloud and Server for sharing, and Tableau Next for CRM analytics

Statically typed superset of JavaScript from Microsoft that compiles to plain JavaScript and powers editor tooling across the web ecosystem

Markup-based typesetting system with an Apache-2.0 compiler written in Rust and a collaborative web app, positioned as a faster, simpler alternative to LaTeX

ML experiment tracking, sweeps, artifacts and model registry plus Weave for LLM tracing and evaluation, now sold by CoreWeave within its Forge platform with a free academic tier

Wolfram Research's proprietary technical computing system built on the Wolfram Language, with notebooks, symbolic and numeric computation, visualization, machine learning and curated data

Free general-purpose research repository operated by CERN that assigns DOIs to datasets, software, papers and other outputs, with a REST API, OAI-PMH, GitHub release archiving and CC0 metadata

Free, open-source reference manager with browser connectors, word-processor plugins, a PDF reader, group libraries and optional paid file storage