IDV Solutions Releases Visual Fusion 5.0: Brings Greater Insight, Productivity, and Agility to the BI Market

LANSING, MI, October 28, 2010 (Press-News.org) IDV Solutions today released Visual Fusion 5.0, innovative business intelligence software that unites data sources in a web-based, visual context for better insight and understanding. The new visualization, interaction, and application-building capabilities in this 5.0 release highlight the main value points Visual Fusion brings to the enterprise: enhanced insight, increased productivity, and business agility.

Visual Fusion is used by the Global 2000 and government to rapidly create applications that empower users with greater visual context and deep interactivity. IDV customers regularly report strong ROI from their Visual Fusion investment in the form of revenue creation, operational savings, and strategic value. Visual Fusion has solved a wide variety of problems in areas like marketing, supply chain, security, asset tracking, situational awareness, counter-terrorism, asset performance, and crisis response.

Visual Fusion 5.0 delivers new capabilities to the market around two primary goals: empower the business user to gain more insight from data, and make it easier to build great BI applications quickly. Maps, timelines, charts, graphs, and other analytics work together in a coordinated environment to put all relevant data in a rich, full context. These interactive elements are both dynamic, responding instantly to user interaction, and flexible, applying to any data attribute. High quality user experience has long been the differentiator for Visual Fusion in the marketplace, and the 5.0 release extends this lead.

Some of the other feature highlights in this release include:
- new analysis tools that offer powerful data slicing capability
- authoring & contribution tools for creating and updating content in any internal data store
- collaboration & reporting tools that facilitate sharing and working together
- action tools that improve productivity

The new drawing and editing tools are of special note, giving the business user the power to create and maintain spatial data without the overhead of traditional GIS software. All of these capabilities are available out of the box and can be implemented in minutes to build powerful business intelligence tools emphasizing interactivity and data visualization.

"Leaders look to business intelligence to give them insight, but often it just weighs them down with clunky interfaces or fixed displays. Visual Fusion 5.0 gives proper recognition to the importance of visual, intuitive user experiences for business intelligence applications," says Ian Clemens, IDV Solutions CTO. "Our customers enjoy working with Visual Fusion and gain value from it; that remains our priority."

This new release of Visual Fusion continues to push the envelope in SharePoint integration as well. Visual Fusion geospatially-enables SharePoint 2010 functionality--like Lists, Search, and Alerting--and takes advantage of SharePoint's broad infrastructure for content management, security, and rapid application development. New Visual Fusion applications can be built in minutes within SharePoint, utilizing site templates, workflow, and Visual Fusion Ribbons and GUIs suitable for anyone in an organization. No other BI, geospatial, data visualization, or mashup product takes advantage of SharePoint the way Visual Fusion does.

About IDV Solutions
IDV Solutions is a business intelligence software company committed to helping organizations gain more insight from data. With over 800,000 users of our products, IDV has achieved a reputation for quality and innovation with leading commercial and government customers. For more information, please visit www.idvsolutions.com.