AVS Unveils OpenViz Business Visualization Technology For Sophisticated 2D And 3D Visual Intelligence
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (AVS), a premier global provider of data visualization technology, has announced the launch of OpenViz, the industry's most sophisticated business visualization technology for integration into Decision Support Systems applications for Independent Software Vendors and IT organizations.
OpenViz responds to the needs of business professionals who require the ability to visualize and interact with the growing volumes of data that businesses continue to capture and warehouse. OpenViz enables IT organizations and developers to Web-enable their applications today through the easy creation of lightweight applets and ActiveX controls. End users of OpenViz developed applications will now be able to interact with these reports, using the interactive charting and graphing capabilities of OpenViz, enabling better and faster business decisions.
OpenViz is a suite of components - supporting both Microsoft Common Object Model (COM) and JavaBean models - that enable developers to extend commercial and custom-developed business intelligence solutions to encompass business-class data visualization. With an OpenViz-enabled application, users can leverage sophisticated interactive visualization techniques previously found only in high-end scientific and engineering applications.
OpenViz provides the most extensive set of 2D and 3D charts available to business professionals, with unprecedented control - for virtually any type of business visualization. OpenViz also supports input of map related data used in spatial applications.
OpenViz provides business visualization - sophisticated, dynamic, interactive, and scalable 2D and 3D visual representations of multiple data types and multiple chart types. "For years, companies have been collecting terabytes of transactions, statistics, and research," said Russ Barbour, president and CEO of Advanced Visual Systems Inc. "And, while OLAP tools have helped business users analyze that data, there hasn't been an equally powerful way to visualize that data. Leveraging the power and sophistication for which AVS is acclaimed in engineering and scientific circles, OpenViz brings to the business user the ability to transform business data into visual intelligence."
OpenViz supplements its charting capabilities with visualization functionality that lets users interact with data, rather than merely view it passively. For example, users can pan, rotate, zoom in and out, change data on the fly to create "what if" scenarios, or manipulate axes and scales to create multiple displays for any data set. OpenViz also enables users to filter data by thresholds and time series, crop, highlight, select and excerpt, and drill down for relational or multidimensional analysis - all with speed-of-thought immediacy.
Other Key OpenViz Features Include:
"We are very pleased to be an early adopter of AVS' groundbreaking visualization technology," said Dave King, senior vice president of product development and chief technology officer for Comshare. "We believe that the time is right for analysts, knowledge workers, and managers to evolve from passive consumers of static graphics to interacting with images and data in meaningful ways. OpenViz will provide a significant differentiator that Comshare customers will find compelling."
OpenViz is available immediately from AVS. For additional information and pricing, call AVS at 800-728-1600.
Advanced Visual Systems Inc. (AVS) is the premier global provider of sophisticated data visualization solutions that transform massive and complex quantities of data into visual representations. The company provides solutions for developers who build customized visualization software, as well as ready-to-use applications for end users who analyze information contained in graphical representation. More than 12,000 users in 2,000 organizations around the world use AVS solutions to gain insight and competitive advantage from data. They look to AVS to reduce development costs, incorporate industry standards, and speed time to market. For more information on AVS, call 1-800-728-1600, e-mail info@avs.com or visit the AVS Web site at: http://www.avs.com.