Visual Insights Announces Beta Release of
Data Visualization Software for ActiveX Developers
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Visual Insights, a venture of Lucent Technologies, has announced the beta release of a set of interactive and linked data visualization software for the Microsoft ActiveX developer market. This component set will allow software developers to create more flexible, animated ways to display trends in vast stores of information. Based on the COM/ActiveX control architecture from Microsoft, the Visualization Components software allows users to incorporate visualization information into existing data mining and analysis applications and to create new stand-alone visualization applications.
Initially, 10 visualization tools will be offered in ActiveX controls. Some examples of these tools are Data Constellations, Parabox, Data Sheet, and Time Table. The Data Constellations program shows relationships and affinities between data items. Parabox shows the effects of multiple variables on a single data item. Other tools provide traditional methods of analysis, such as animated bar charts, pie charts, and line charts.
Additional visualization components will be available during third quarter 1998.
"Visualization Components for ActiveX software provides companies with an easy, cost-effective way to combine the industry's most powerful data visualization tools with their own applications," said Doug Cogswell, president and chief executive officer of Visual Insights. "By integrating our visualization software into their products, companies can help their own customers extract tremendous competitive advantages from the mountains of business data that they own."
Visual Insights software speeds and improves analysis of business intelligence by displaying large volumes of data in intuitive graphical formats. The software is designed for use in data-intensive applications, such as Year 2000 detection and analysis, corporate network and systems management, and customer behavior modeling and prediction.
With the Visualization Components software, all views share color, are linked, are resizable, and share a common data pool. In addition, all views support animation from the Bar Chart component. "The release of Visualization Components marks another step toward more widely available software for complex visual analysis applications, "said Erik Thomsen, a cofounder of Dimensional Systems. "Visual Insights is a data visualization company to watch. They offer complete visual analysis environments for a variety of business applications. Its offer of ActiveX components can be easily integrated into existing data mining and OLAP programs."
Visual Insights Visualization Components are priced depending on the value of the applications to which they are related.
Visual Insights, headquartered at Naperville, Illinois, is a wholly owned venture of Lucent. Its software solutions are in use today in telecommunications, consumer marketing, fraud, and software development applications. Its web site is http://www.visualinsights.com Lucent Technologies, headquartered at Murray Hill, New Jersey, designs, builds, and delivers a wide range of public and private networks, communications systems and software, data networking systems, business telephone systems and microelectronic components. Bell Laboratories is its research and development arm. For further information on Lucent Technologies, visit the web site at http://www.lucent.com