Visual Fusion is enterprise mash-up software that allows users to create interactive applications using maps, timelines, and charts to visualize and explore enterprise data. The upcoming version 5.0 will include enhanced integration with SharePoint 2010, new charting and graphing capabilities, drawing tools to create and edit spatial data, and improved querying functionality. It enables users to build solutions for security management, asset management, retail analysis, supply chain management, and situational awareness with minimal IT resources or coding.
2. What is Visual Fusion? 2 BACKGROUND Visual Fusion is enterprise mash-up software for creating interactive, visual applications utilizing the power of SharePoint®.
3. BACKGROUND What makes Visual Fusion beneficial to your business? Visual Fusion puts your data in the full context of location, time, and analytics for enhanced understanding and insight. It uses a map, timeline, and charts as the primary metaphors for interacting with, exploring, and viewing enterprise information. 3
4. Mashups in Minutes Create an unlimited number of enterprise mashups with minimal time to deployment and minimal drain on IT resources. 4 BACKGROUND Build solutions to address just about any business problem, including: Security Management Asset Management Retail Analysis Supply Chain Management Situational Awareness
5. Visual Fusion 5.0 Coming soon: The October release of Visual Fusion 5.0 New features & capabilities: SharePoint 2010 Integration Support for storing lines & polygons in a SharePoint List Geo-alerts on any SharePoint List Out of the box charts & graphs fully integrated with map & timeline Drawing tools to create, edit, delete from your VF application interface Ad hoc and persistent labels Favorites and permalinks No code spatial queries and quick query from any polygon Data feed and data item action menus And much, much more! 5
6. New Feature: Data Creation 6 Drawing Tool Easy to use; allows the user to create spatial data by drawing points, lines and areas near or around a single point or set of data points.
7. 7 For more on VF 5.0 User Experience, visit the User Experience Blog: http://uxblog.idvsolutions.com
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Visual Fusion is enterprise mashup software for creating interactive, visual applications utilizing the power of SharePoint, built by IDV Solutions. Visit www.idvsolutions.com to learn more about Visual Fusion.
Visual Fusion Suite is an enterprise mash-up platform with everything you need to build interactive data visualizations in SharePoint. Visual Fusion Suite integrates enterprise information, Web services, and unmanaged workgroup files into a single interactive picture, and presents them in the context of location, time, and other visualizations. Communicate the big picture immediately, and allow users to discover, contribute, collaborate, and act. Visual Fusion Suite is made up of a set of component products and technologies which work together for creating business-focused applications that have proven to drive high rates of ROI for a diverse cast of customers. The Suite includes Visual Fusion Experience (VFX), Visual Fusion Server (VFS), Data Connectors, Developer SDK, and Visual Fusion Tile Server (VFTS)Visual Fusion’s key capabilities are: • CONNECT to virtually any data source within the enterprise or on the Web.• VISUALIZE information in meaningful context such as interactive maps, charts, and timelines.• CREAT E custom variables and hotspots to alert users to important information.• PROVIDE permission-based publishing and workflow integration, so people have access tothe information and collaboration tools they need.• ENABLE contribution from individuals in real time through applications like SharePoint orthrough any mobile device email.Visual Fusion’s key benefits are:• INSIGHT - interact with more meaningful data by seeing it in the context of location, time, orother framework• ACTION – integrate with workflow and act decisively based on visual data integration andbusiness intelligence• PRODUCTIVITY - spend less time finding and compiling information and more time in analysisand discovery• AGILITY – respond quickly to business needs with rapid application development• FLEXIBILITY - apply to just about any business problem; extends to precisely meet uniquebusiness needs• VALUE - extend the value of previous investments in data and systems with a powerful tool thatanyone can use
One of the main tenants of Visual Fusion is to geo-enable SharePoint so that business users can create and manage their own spatial data from within their friendly and familiar lists and libraries. Allowing for the creation of a geographic component in an intuitive and accessible portal is an empowering feature, and one that gives a break to GIS specialists who would previously be tapped to generate the stuff by proxy.In previous versions, users could use Visual Fusion's visual geocoder to pin a geographic coordinate to their list or library item and, therefore, be able to work with it on a map.But often a pin is not enough, because the phenomena we are interested in representing is more complex than that.Visual Fusion 5.0 (available Fall, 2010) extends the visual geocoder to include a rich set of map drawing tools. Now, if your data item is more like a set of building footprints for a campus, series of business territories, airport perimeters, a network of shipping lanes, a flight-plan, or anything where a dot just won't do, then you are in business!Also, since these draw tools are in SharePoint, you can still take advantage of all the trusty ActiveDirectory, collaboration, and change tracking features. What's more, you'll be able to work with this data in the context of live web feeds, enterprise databases, and your existing GIS infrastructure.