Corteza

A solution stack for a sustainable future.

By empowering people and organizations anywhere in the world to control and share their data and the applications they build with it without giving up their digital freedom, Corteza aims to increase humankind’s ability to respond quickly and effectively to the varied challenges the world faces and, in so doing, give the world a platform to overcome these challenges and work itself towards a sustainable future.

Corteza is a 100% open-source, fully standardized low-code app development, business process, integration and data harmonization platform.

Corteza’s backend is built in Golang, the multi-threaded computing language developed by Google to build and manage its application infrastructure. Its front end is written in Vue.js, a lightweight JavaScript framework. Corteza uses W3C standards and formats wherever possible and all Corteza components are accessible via RestAPI. Corteza is cloud-native and deploys via Docker containers.

Corteza is licensed under an Apache 2.0 license and is, and always will be, freely available to all.

Corteza was created by Planet Crust, which continues to maintain and develop Corteza and is Corteza’s primary contributor. Planet Crust offers support and development services for Corteza.

Aire is an AI-powered data model builder that makes building apps on Corteza faster and easier than ever. Get an Aire subscription to export your config files and import them into your own instance of Corteza.

Latest Releases

Release

Corteza 2021.3.5 released

Corteza 2021.3.5 has been released, and includes the following updates and improvements: Server Fixed federation structure sync, added a response wrapper to API response Added manipulation functions for KV and KV-like types for setting values with dynamic keys Fixed filtering with multi-value field Improved workflow error handling

Corteza 2021.3.4 released

Corteza 2021.3.4 has been released, and includes the following updates and improvements: Server Data import: Resolved CSV size limitation issue Auth: Fixed session lifetime when doing external authentication SCIM: Improved SCIM support (removing role/group members)

Corteza 2021.3.3 released

Corteza 2021.3.3 has been released, and includes the following updates and improvements: Auth Several fixes Workflow Workflow cross canvas copying Added import & export functionality, allowing you to import and export complete workflows

100% Open-Source Low-Code Platform

Rapid Application Development. Business Process Worflows. Integration Management. Data Hamonization.

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Corteza Platform

Corteza makes it easy to build native web apps and expand your third-party software ecosystem with complete flexibility, freedom and control over your platform and everything you build on it.

Connect with any record data source

Integrate with data from any machine-readable system or database, regardless of format, across and between instances.

Control everything you build

Export and import complete app configurations, workflows and record data without limits. Claim copyright over your config files and issue binaries as proprietary software.

Transform your data

Transform all data into a standardized JSON format to create data models for app and worflows or to federate out.

Retain full ownership rights

Use, modify, distribute or sell Corteza or apps built with it under your own license and trademark for free with no obligation to publish your modified code.

Build unlimited apps

Create unlimited web applications and process workflows using block-based tools and Javascript automations in a fraction of the time of traditional coding.

Access all of Corteza’s code

Corteza is 100% open source. Every single piece of Corteza code is published and can be reviewed at https://github.com/cortezaproject.

Deploy and redeploy

Deploy applications and workflows instantly, iterate and redeploy as much as you want.

Free forever

All Corteza code is contributed to the Commons Conservancy Software Foundation so that access to Corteza can never be taken away from you.

Start with Corteza today

Try out Corteza for free, on-premise or in the cloud.

The Corteza project is owned and operated by the Commons Conservancy Foundation, a foundation established under the law of The Netherlands and home for technology efforts in the public interest.

The NGI Zero Discovery Fund has funded the work on Corteza Record Federation and is funding Corteza Discovery.

NGI Zero is a joint not-for-profit effort by 13 organisations, led by the NLnet foundation.

NGI Zero is made possible with financial support from the European Commission‘s Next Generation Internet programme.