New business intelligence tool from VN

"Visual Numerics has a well-established history of providing data analysis and advanced visualization tools to people who need to turn raw data into meaningful information," said Don Kainer, Visual Numerics' vice president of marketing and product development. "These same demands are prevalent in the business intelligence market, where people must often make sense of a deluge of corporate data found at EIPs. Until now, this data has been analyzed by studying tabular data. We believe we have a better solution for the person analyzing the data."

Kainer continued, "Instead of studying rows and columns of numbers looking for patterns, trends and anomalies, users can apply iDecision's powerful visualization and analytical techniques to drill into the data. The resulting graphical output, which may include mapping and multi-dimensional views, improves the decision-making process by making it faster, easier and more accurate."

The data visualization engine of iDecision is Visual Numerics' JWAVE product. JWAVE is an enterprise computing solution that uses network technologies, including Java, JavaBeans components and HTML, to rapidly develop and deploy applications throughout an organization via the Internet or an intranet. Scalable from the desktop to the enterprise, these JWAVE applications let users visually interpret large, complex datasets.

iDecision supports the following operating systems: Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64 and AIX), Linux and Windows NT.