Corda Technologies Releases PopChart Version 4.0; New 4.0 Version of Charting/Graphing Solution Ready for Web Services Including .NET and Java with Support for XML Standards.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LINDON, Utah--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 4, 2002 CORDA Technologies Inc., a Lindon-based developer of dynamic, interactive, Web-based charting and graphing solutions, Monday announced the new 4.0 Version of its PopChart server products. Corda has added many additional features to this major upgrade that increase the benefit to the IT professional as well as the end user of the charts and graphs. PopChart 4.0 is available now. PopChart 4.0 is ready for the rapidly emerging Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. market including .NET and Java with end-to-end support of XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. . Through XML, information can be easily extracted and exchanged between databases, enhancing e-commerce and business intelligence applications. PopChart 4.0 allows users to deliver and utilize charts and graphs as a Web Service. Neal Williams, chief executive officer of Corda, said, "I am excited about the new additions to our products. We have provided benefits to everyone that uses PopChart from the IT technician responsible for installation, to the IT manager responsible for implementation, to the person using the charts and graphs to understand mission critical data. "I am proud of Corda's success and continued industry-leading charting and graphing solutions." Managers today are buried with mountains of crucial data that they are expected to understand and take into account when making decisions. Visualization Using the computer to convert data into picture form. The most basic visualization is that of turning transaction data and summary information into charts and graphs. Visualization is used in computer-aided design (CAD) to render screen images into 3D models that can be viewed from all of that data is key to understanding. In PopChart 4.0, data visualization See information visualization. has been enhanced by inclusion of PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. and EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) A PostScript file format used to transfer a graphic image between applications and platforms. EPS files contain PostScript code as well as an optional preview image in TIFF, WMF, PICT or EPSI, the latter being an ASCII-only format. output. This output allows users to easily create clean, crisp charts and graphs within PDF reports for viewing and printing. The visual appeal of chart presentation has also been enhanced in PopChart 4.0 with the ability to directly import background images. The IT professional will appreciate the new administration console that facilitates deployment, monitoring and maintenance of PopChart. Server uptime availability is strengthened with PopChart's advanced clustering support and server failover. Chart and graph creation is made easy and intuitive with the visual design and template creation tool, PopChart Builder. The new 4.0 version of Builder includes a Windows True Type font A set of print characters of a particular design (typeface), size (point size) and weight (light, medium, heavy). See font. converter that provides full double-byte support for international language symbols. PopChart's direct database connectivity permits a developer to connect directly to a database from PopChart. All of the new features serve to augment the outstanding features that are already a part of the PopChart family. PopChart provides Flash and SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) A vector graphics format from the W3C for the Web that is expressed in XML. Introduced in 2001, SVG was designed to become the standard vector format just as GIFs and JPEGs have become the standard bitmaps for the Web. images that have drilldown and popup features to assist in navigating through data. There is wireless and handheld support using WBMP (Wireless BMP) A graphic file format for WAP-enabled wireless phones. The format was designed to support multiple image types, but was introduced with only one: a Type "0" uncompressed monochrome bitmap. See WAP. WBMP - wireless bitmap output. PopChart works with any database and any browser, and with Best Image Fallback fall·back n. 1. a. Something to which one can resort or retreat. b. A retreat. 2. Computer Science , the highest quality image is always delivered to the browser. Many different graphs types are supported in both vector and bitmap images. All graphs and charts can easily be configured to be 508 compliant with descriptive text that permits the visually impaired to have the information read to them by a screen reader. About Corda Technologies Corda Technologies is the global leader in providing interactive data visualization solutions. With more flexibility, scalability and speed than any other charting solutions, Corda's family of tools and services are the leading choice for fast and easy to build charts and graphs. Corda's solutions display data as visual images allowing customers to explore relationships, perform analysis and more easily understand their data. Readers can contact Corda at www.corda.com. |
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