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Visual i/o Announces Industry-First 100% Cloud-Based, Enterprise Class Business Analytics Solution
100% Browser-based solution makes visual data analysis easily accessible to decision makers to eliminate the report-review-report bottleneck
BOSTON, MA— July 7, 2009 — Visual i/o (www.visual-io.com) today announced an industry-first, cloud-based Software-as-Service (SaaS) solution that allows employees and managers throughout an enterprise to simultaneously access, visualize, analyze and collaborate with one another on essential data.
Visual i/o delivers an immersive interactive data analysis experience that shortens the time normally required by business teams to analyze crucial company data for decision making. Visual i/o facilitates an ongoing dialog with data — to visually identify revealing statuses, trends, thresholds, and significance that are buried within large data sets and hard to find.
“Visual i/o’s mission is to redefine BI by integrating the data reporting and analysis process in a shared set of data visualization resources that are easy to use for both analysts and management alike. Current products on the market rely on client-installable software which limits performance and deployability. Visual i/o is the first company to deliver a 100% enterprise-class, browser-based solution — none of our competitors can make that claim today,” said Angela Shen-Hsieh co-founder of Visual i/o.
Traditional BI approaches for data reporting, analysis and presentation are limited because the reports are largely static, making it hard for teams to interactively analyze, discuss and evaluate data at the fast pace businesses operate. Many data graphing and sharing products fall short because of limited data interaction and inflexible analysis options.
“The old-fashioned method of generating and publishing BI reports with no way of performing interactive analysis just amplifies the broken report-question-report cycle that puts a drag on implementing enterprise performance initiatives. Visual i/o fixes that problem by eliminating the information gap between analysts and decision makers—through an immersive approach that lets all participate and contribute as part of an interactive cycle of data access, visualization, analysis, and collaboration with a powerful set of tools useable by managers and analysts alike” said Shen-Hsieh.
Visual i/o software removes barriers to enterprise interaction and data-driven decision making by delivering continuous, on-demand business insight with these benefits:
- Accessible Via the Cloud
- Immersive Through a data-interactive visual interface
- Immediate Over broadband Web connection
- Dynamic Interact with enterprise databases, BI suites, Web data stores
- Scaleable Enterprise-grade large data set capability and 1000’s of simultaneous users
- Collaborative Connect and share analysis and insights with colleagues
- Revealing Make better decisions
Visual i/o provides executives, managers, analysts with an interactive visual analysis tool to view data across multiple dimensions, decision points and milestones per project with drill-down capabilities to provide a deeper understanding of the underlying data. Business users (i.e. managers) now have greater flexibility to easily generate data visualizations (e.g. scatterplots, Gantt charts, and others) by various parameters, on an ad hoc basis, without having to go back to their in-house analysts to create reports.
Visual i/o Features:
· Cloud Computing Delivery enables lightning fast deployments and system upgrades with zero impact on IT
· Group Collaboration Capabilities shorten the time it takes to create, circulate, comment on, and analyze reports and analysis.
· Web-based Data Visualization Builder makes it extremely easy to add expanded or new reports to Visual i/o’s shared workspaces.
· Enterprise-Class Data Handling delivers the capability to work with very large data sets required by enterprise class applications.
· Intuitive User Interfaces provide highly interactive visualizations (Gantt charts, bubble charts, heat maps) of complex data contained within enterprise databases
· Easy-to-use Controls and Filters allow users to interactively investigate data in real time so that key results are immediately apparent. Data is made dynamically accessible and reports easily shared with groups of authorized users.
· Packages Industry-Relevant Templates and expertise (e.g., pharmaceutical portfolio management, sales team forecast) for domain relevance and quick productivity.
· Rich, Web-based Experience for tracking time flows and trends, exploring patterns in data, and filtering/highlighting based on user requirements.
Visual i/o Benefits:
· Shortens the reporting-analysis cycle for enterprise performance analysis by up to 80% compared to existing BI tools
· Powerful interactive visual analysis empowers business users and managers to easily understand complex data
· Comprehensive creation and customization capabilities let analysts construct and share sophisticated analysis in an interactive visual format useable by managers and executives (as well as analysts).
· Reduces manual reporting processes through self-service capabilities using Visual i/o’s shared workspace capability
· Easy integration with legacy software suites for ongoing ROI
· Present complex data in digestible, usable formats for executives, management, business end users and even consumers.
· Facilitate faster, more-informed exploration and refinement of data, and better decision making.
About Visual i/o
Visual i/o provides the industry’s first cloud-based, enterprise class, immersive business analytics and visualization solution in order to maximize organizational decision-making and performance. Leading pharmaceutical, software and financial services companies use Visual i/o to interact dynamically and visually with their data for revealing business insights. The company’s proven solutions and consulting services enable organizations to present and understand complex data in digestible, meaningful formats for executives, management and end users, while driving faster decisions and analysis. Visit www.visual-io.com or call (617) 623-5400.
Press Contact: Patrick Rafter for Visual i/o, prafter@visual-io.com 617-901-2697 ##
Visual i/o is a trademark of Visual i/o, Inc. References to other companies and their products use trademarks owned by the respective companies and are for reference purposes only. Copyright © 1998-2009, Visual i/o, Incorporated and its licensors. All rights reserved.
POSTED BY prafter ON July 7th, 2009.
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Interactive data visualization and search augments Cognos BI for faster and better business analysis, reporting and decision-making
ORLANDO, FL— June 2, 2009 — Visual i/o (www.visual-io.com) unveiled the newest generation of its enterprise software for interactive visual analysis and business intelligence at the IBM Cognos Forum (http://www.cognos.com/cognosforum), which took place in Orlando, FL—May 12-15, 2009.
Through its new product, Visual i/o also introduces an industry-first “Visual Search” capability delivering unprecedented integration of business intelligence with data search functionalities. The new software was demonstrated for the first time in public during Cognos Forum at Booth 32 on the expo floor.
Visual i/o’s new software adds unprecedented capabilities and powerful functionality for business intelligence and performance management professionals using Cognos products. Visual i/o meets strong Cognos customer demand for high-performance visualization for both structured database data and unstructured Web content.
“As a presentation layer technology, Visual i/o’s products and components reside on top of multiple data sources and the Cognos architecture to provide intuitive and highly interactive user interfaces,” said Angela Shen-Hsieh, founder of Visual i/o.
“Many of our customers use Cognos products. Users in life sciences, pharmaceuticals, financial services, and government sectors can leverage and extend the robust capabilities of their Cognos products with powerful and insightful data visualizations offered by Visual i/o. Our proven technology solutions and consulting services enable Cognos enterprise customers to present complex data in digestible, usable formats for executives, management, business end users and consumers.”
Visual i/o + Cognos Helps Business Better See and Understand Data:
Visual i/o business analysis components are optimized to run with IBM Cognos 8 Business Intelligence. Its visualizations are presented within the Cognos Connection Portal to provide a security model and single application server for Web-based users. The Cognos-Visual i/o combination lets users draw on data across all enterprise sources to create their own views of trusted performance information and explore it when and how it suits them best.
The visualizations request data through Cognos reports – both automatic/scheduled and on-demand ad hoc reporting. The XML output is then formatted into user-friendly views.
Visual i/o provides executives and managers with an interactive visual analysis tool to view data across multiple dimensions, decision points and milestones per project with drill-down capabilities to provide a deeper understanding of the underlying data. Users now have greater flexibility to generate data visualizations (e.g. Gantt charts) by various parameters, on an ad hoc basis, depending on changing needs, without having to put in a request to an in-house IT/ technical team to update the reports.
Visual i/o delivers essential software functionalities for management productivity (integrating Business Intelligence, Analytics, Budgeting and Planning, Dashboarding, and more):
Visual i/o Features
· Provides interactive views (Gantt charts, bubble charts, heat maps) of complex data contained within Cognos databases
· Easy-to-use controls and filters allow users to interactively investigate data in real time so that key results are immediately apparent. Structured and unstructured data is made dynamically accessible and reports easily shared with groups of authorized users.
· Packages industry-relevant templates and expertise (e.g., pharmaceutical portfolio management, sales team forecast) for domain relevance and quick productivity.
· Provides a rich, Web-based experience for tracking time flows and trends, exploring patterns in data, and filtering/highlighting based on user requirements.
Visual i/o Benefits:
· Facilitates faster, more-informed exploration and refinement of data, and better decision-making.
· Powerful interactive analysis empowers business users to easily understand complex data
· Reduces manual reporting processes through self-service capabilities.
· Extends existing Cognos investments.
· Integrates easily within the Cognos environment.
The combination of Visual i/o with Cognos 8 V.4 delivers a powerful solution for the integration of dynamic Data Visualization, Business Intelligence (BI) Enterprise Search and Retrieval (ESR) — to go beyond stand-alone offerings from other vendors including TIBCO Spotfire, Information Builders, Jaspersoft, SAS, Oracle and QlikView.
As its name suggests, Visual i/o is a venture-backed data visualization software company enabling business users and consumers to easily and interactively access, interpret and learn from information they work with everyday. Visual i/o’s focus is on “the last 18 inches”—getting data from the computer screen into the human mind—bridging the divide between raw data and actionable meaning through an entirely new graphical way to navigate and interpret data.
About Visual i/o
Visual i/o develops interactive visual analysis solutions that provide comprehensive views into the state of business operations to maximize organizational decision-making. Leading pharmaceutical, software and financial services companies use Visual i/o to interact dynamically and visually with their data for revealing business insights. The company’s proven data visualization software (http://www.visual-io.com/solutions) solutions and consulting services enable organizations to present complex data in digestible, meaningful formats for executives, management and end users, while driving faster decisions and analysis Visit www.visual-io.com or call (617) 623-5400.
Press Contact: Patrick Rafter for Visual i/o, prafter@visual-io.com
617-901-2697
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Visual i/o is a trademark of Visual i/o, Inc. References to other companies and their products use trademarks owned by the respective companies and are for reference purposes only. Copyright © 1998-2009, Visual i/o, Incorporated and its licensors. All rights reserved.
POSTED BY prafter ON June 2nd, 2009.
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POSTED BY admin ON February 10th, 2009.
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