VISUAL MINING ANNOUNCES DECISION.CONTROL, THE FIRST CORPORATE DECISION PORTAL SOLUTION
Visual Mining, Inc. has announced its entry into the enterprise portal market with Decision.Control. While other companies are in this market space providing static information, Visual Mining is offering a corporate decision portal allowing users to not only access their data but the ability to drill down into the information and change some of the variables to achieve different results. This is the first solution to give enterprise users the ability to create personalized views of corporate information and interact with the information in real time with the same comfort that they have searching the Web.
The Decision.Control corporate decision portal gives users the power to search, create, manage, and present customized desktop views of information from corporate data stores without needing to understand data structures or learn new reporting tools. Decision.Control presents the information to users in real-time with dynamically generated charts, graphs, and reports, while allowing them to drill down or drill through the information to find the answers they need to make informed business decisions.
"Given the demand for immediate, accurate decision-making, it's well recognized that today's enterprise user needs a customized workspace in which he or she can gather and process complex information from the whole gamut of corporate information sources," said Dave Folger, analyst at the META Group. "Corporate decision portals, as opposed to publishing or operational portals, recognize this need and gives end-users, not business intelligence workers, the tools they need to quickly compile information, build dynamic graphs, and create personalized views. By giving enterprise workers the ability to easily drill down into internal and external sources of information and gather data in real-time relevant to their own projects, decision portals give the entire organization the ability to run more efficiently."
Decision.Control responds to the mounting pressure being placed on the IT organizations of Fortune 1000 companies by enterprise users to make corporate information easily accessible. Decision.Control's powerful functionality and ease-of-use ensure high rates of adoption by enterprise users, giving them full capabilities to customize their own views of corporate information and "surf" internal and external data with the same dynamic quality and browser interface they experience on the Web. Decision.Control can significantly reduce IT's burden of fulfilling users' requests for data analysis freeing IT departments to focus on the technology issues affecting corporate competitiveness.
Decision.Control not only puts the power to make better decisions faster in the hands of enterprise users, it also provides sound means to leverage an organization's ongoing investments in business intelligence, data warehouses, and content management tools because it openly and independently aggregates information from all data sources. The ease of use also reduces the cost per seat through lower training costs and reduced analyst costs since end-users now have easy access to their own information.
"Decision.Control answers the Fortune 1000's need to dynamically deploy corporate information to an ever-widening audience," said Tom Dailey, president and CEO, Visual Mining, Inc. "Today's business decisions are made in response to lighting-fast changes in the marketplace, so naturally businesses want to put as much up-to-the-minute information as possible in the hands of decision-makers. While many corporate portal companies claim to give control to the enterprise users, they still must filter requests through IT staff. Only Decision.Control truly gives end-users the ability to create their own views, form their own queries, and mine their own data to help them make decisions.
"To make sure that we continue to offer the functions that corporations are looking for," continued Dailey, "Visual Mining is creating an Advisory Council with Fortune 1000 companies across vertical markets for a cross-section of users needs. The only way to ensure that we continue to develop the best products in the market is to stay in touch with the real-world problems of large corporations."
Decision.Control consists of two fundamental components - product and professional services. First, a browser-based, client server application providing the 97 percent of users who shy away from business intelligence tools the ability to create fully interactive views of corporate information at their desktops. Second, a professional services component that includes a visualization audit and definition and implementation of customized views for the enterprise, conducted by Visual Mining, Inc.'s consultants.
Decision.Control is a corporate decision portal solution comprising both professional services and software products. The visualization audit is priced at $18,000. The client-side and server-side software are priced on a subscription and site license basis. Decision.Control will become commercially available September 1, 1999.
Based in Rockville, Maryland, Visual Mining, Inc. is an innovative technology company delivering corporate decision portals that allow end-users to navigate multiple, large corporate databases with a standard Web-browser interface. Founded in 1996, the company earned acclaim for developing the first Java-based charting package that enables users to easily build, share, and maintain online charts. Today the company offers a range of visualization products and services that take the wealth of information in corporate databases and make it meaningful and accessible to users throughout the company. Visual Mining also provides consulting, education and support services to its customers worldwide including Fortune 1000 companies such as Chevron, Deloitte & Touche, Federal Express, Ford, General Mills, IBM, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, and Thompson Financial Services. For more information about Visual Mining and Decision.Control, please visit http://www.visualmining.com or contact Visual Mining at 800-308-0731.