Visual Mining Announces Third Release of Its Eclipse-Based Business Intelligence Reporting Tool; welcomes BIRT initiative.ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Visual Mining, Inc., a leading developer of reporting and data visualization See information visualization. solutions, today announced the release of NetCharts(R) Designer 4.5.3, its Eclipse-based Business Intelligence Reporting Tool. "We are pleased with the continued success of NetCharts Designer," said Michael MacDonald, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Founder, Visual Mining. "It's gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to see the speed at which new reporting applications can be developed with NetCharts Designer and to see our customers realize a strong return on their investment." NetCharts Designer is an Eclipse-based desktop design tool that allows programmers and non-programmers to create web-based, dynamic dashboards and interactive graphical reports. Wizards guide the user through the process of interacting with data sources and designing charts and tables. A graphical layout editor allows users to drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. charts and tables to create complete reports. A code generation module then converts the XML-based report definition into JSP (JavaServer Page) An extension to the Java servlet technology from Sun that allows HTML to be combined with Java on the same page. The Java provides the processing, and the HTML provides the layout on the Web page. , ASP, .NET, CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) See ColdFusion. CFML - ColdFusion Markup Language , or even 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. that can then be deployed in virtually any contemporary application server. Visual Mining welcomes proposed open source business intelligence solutions such as the Business Intelligence and Reporting Tool (BIRT) initiative recently announced at Eclipse.org. "We are encouraged by the increased interest in driving down the costs and complexity of building Java-based reporting solutions. The feature set proposed by BIRT is remarkably similar to our existing NetCharts Designer architecture. We will be able to easily integrate BIRT-like technology, and continue providing high-end graphics and standardized reporting to the business community." said Kevin Scott, Visual Mining's Vice President of Engineering. About Visual Mining, Inc: Visual Mining builds interactive graphical reporting solutions for business and government organizations needing maximum software flexibility, high performance, and low cost. Visual Mining produced the first Java-powered charting engine in 1996. Since then, Visual Mining's NetCharts products have earned numerous industry awards, most recently, the 2003 Intelligent Enterprise Magazine's Readers' Choice Award for data visualization software. For more information, please visit www.visualmining.com. |
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