It has been developed by the International Mathematics Co-operation (IMC), a non-profit organization that works to advance mathematical development throughout the world. Maple is considered to be one of the most powerful object-oriented scripting languages on the market today. One of the great things about Maple is that it allows its users to be highly creative in the use of its tools and the presentations of its results. The use of symbols in Maple makes it very easy to express complex patterns in a way that can be understood by the typical user. A major strength of Maple is that it provides an easy environment for expressing mathematical expressions and also for representing and manipulating objects in a symbolic form.

Maple is widely used in the fields of business and product development, because of its strong support for symbolism. As a user of Maple, you will enjoy a rich range of capabilities that allow for an easy development and deployment of applications. It covers many areas of technological computing, including numerical analysis, symbolic mathematics, statistical computing, web programming, data analysis, and others. Maple is a strong multi-paradigm and symbolic computing language and a versatile application environment.