OpenViz - Innovative Data Visualization Software

OpenViz is a multifunction API that serves as a rich canvas for the development of intelligent and interactive data visualizations that have an intimate relationship with both the underlying data and the end user. OpenViz is a collection of data visualization, data analysis and data management techniques that can be integrated into any software solution, enabling any type and quantity of data to be expressed as highly interactive 2D and 3D presentations that can be easily distributed via the Web and added to new or existing applications.

OpenViz is the centerpiece of the AVS strategy to empower product managers, software developers and solution designers to conceive and deploy game-changing interactive data visualizations for every industry, integrating the power of advanced analytics, Big Data and other important drivers of OEM and Enterprise solution strategies.

For many ISV and OEM product teams, some of the biggest barriers to developing an innovative data visualization strategy have been the limits imposed by off-the-shelf charting packages.

Advanced annotation, axis layout, conditional trendlines, rule-based transparencies, dynamic chart-in-chart tooltips, internationalization and icon-based legends are just a few of the impossibilities with most unsophisticated charting packages that aren’t pure data visualization systems.

The OpenViz API was created specifically for use by ISV and OEM teams committed to differentiating their value proposition with highly effective visualization features that accent the underlying data and eclipse the generic look and feel of commodity charts.

As data becomes larger and more complex the need to embrace non-traditional methods of visualization is essential for any long-term product strategy. Switching graphics platforms or vendors every few release cycles is impractical and inefficient. OpenViz has a ten-year release history of providing distinctive user experience to many types of OEM clients.

The OpenViz API consists of a flexible data management pipeline that feeds many millions of in-memory data points into a high performance rendering engine for scalable graphics generation.

The pipeline is an effective way to capture a large query and/or build a sizable array of disparate values from any combination of static or real-time inputs and frees an application from being dependent on highly aggregated or pre-calculated data strings that are the only connection between data and a visualization.

A large selection of OpenViz components enable a variety of statistical, computational and data management functions that radically innovate the range options available to a product team seeking to synchronize a proprietary business process, algorithm or workflow with interactive components of a user interface.

Each time that an end user interacts with an application through a server-side AJAX (or Java or .NET client-side) element such as a slider, gesture, region selector or click-to-drill action, the OpenViz data management pipeline responds with a dynamic generation of refreshed in-memory values that are pushed to the OpenViz graphics renderer.

Flexible API
OpenViz is a powerful API that provides fine-grain access to a rich set of features and enables the development of proprietary data visualizations to any specification. OpenViz allows software makers to create unique look-and-feel properties for any data visualization and seamlessly weave them into long lifecycle multi-product strategies.

Built-in analytics
Utilize a selection of built-in standard analytics procedures or incorporate proprietary models and formulas. Highly interactive features such as filtering, sampling and thresholding distinguish OpenViz from static data visualization tools and support pre/post-processed data and offload burdensome tasks from other systems.

Server, Cloud or Desktop
OpenViz offers a wide range of browser and desktop deployment options that support multi-platform requirements at leading ISVs and enterprises. One application can easily support multiple modes of deployment and thousands of simultaneous logins—all from a common code base.

Real time rendering
Whether a solution demands up-to-the-second or up-to-the-hour data updating, OpenViz processes and visualizes real-time data to any specification. The OpenViz API permits multiple data streams to be easily manipulated and visualized for deployment on all contemporary platforms and devices.

Hundreds of techniques
OpenViz is a collection of controls and classes that provide data access, data manipulation, data visualization and data management. Techniques are easily combined to create distinctive and highly interactive visualizations. From a library of 100+ techniques it is possible to create extremely rich visual “scenes” that do much more than just present data—they manage the entire end-to-end user experience for all types of solutions.

Advanced interactivity
Interactivity to OpenViz means much more than mouse-clicks and slider-drags. Every OpenViz graphic is a representation of live data that can be exploited and re-rendered on-the-fly based on a wide range of user interactions. OpenViz lets the data do the talking through a versatile set of interactive techniques that users quickly embrace. The “live data” approach of OpenViz makes applications soar in popularity, performance and effectiveness.

Ultra-high performance
OpenViz reads data faster, calculates faster and renders faster than any other BI data visualization system. This, in turn, makes applications run faster and dramatically improves user experience. Speed counts in today’s demanding application marketplace and OpenViz provides unsurpassed performance in all areas of commercial software development.

In-memory processing
Send large and complex data queries and streams to conventional memory where users can undertake sophisticated algorithmic and application processes without support from any other system. OpenViz is capable of processing extremely demanding, mission-critical simulation and predictive models with exceptional performance and agility.

Any data format or model
OpenViz exploits any type of data or data model, either directly from table/cube/warehouse, as dynamic streams or as in-memory variables. This flexibility allows disparate data formats to be intelligently integrated on the fly and instantly converted into highly interactive graphics for web or desktop deployment.

Java/Microsoft
Regardless of your development or deployment environment, OpenViz fully serves the needs of every constituent in the software development supply chain. OpenViz supports all editions of Java and Microsoft .NET/Active X/COM to create a robust data visualization toolset for any and every application requirement.