IDV Solutions Releases Piracy and Hurricane Watch

18 November 2009, 10:53pm

Lansing, MI, November 18, 2009 - DV Solutions today announced the public releases of Piracy Watch and Hurricane Watch, interactive data visualizations built on Visual Fusion, Microsoft’s Bing Maps, and Silverlight. Visual Fusion is visual mashup software for the enterprise, a platform for creating interactive, visual applications utilizing the power of SharePoint.

Piracy Watch visualizes piracy incidents around the globe from 1978 to the present, displaying the data in both a map and a timeline. The two contexts of place and time work together as an integrated canvas for exploring the data, and users can navigate in both contexts. The visualization also includes a heat map for the 30+ years of content to give immediate at-a-glance understanding of what parts of the world have been most impacted by this activity. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency maintains this data as Anti-Shipping Activity Messages.

Hurricane Watch visualizes Atlantic hurricane tracks and advisories from 1950 to the present, displaying the content in coordinated map and timeline viewers. Users can navigate both the map and timeline to hone in on the area and time frame of interest, as well as adjust what level of hurricane advisory is presented in the display. The historic Atlantic Basin hurricane data comes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and is available at data.gov.

“We are thrilled to be able to open these up to the public,” explained Scott Caulk, Director of Product Management at IDV Solutions. “They offer a great demonstration of the power and usefulness of Visual Fusion. Organizations will immediately be able to see how their own data, when presented in similar visualizations, will provide more value and produce greater insight for better, faster decision making.”

IDV Solutions plans to release more demonstration applications in the next few weeks to highlight Visual Fusion’s application to real world scenarios like situational awareness, security management, and retail analysis. Organizations around the world use Visual Fusion to unite disparate internal and external data sources into business-focused mashups, executive dashboards, location intelligence applications, interactive maps, and common operational pictures.

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