Products

Tom Sawyer Software products are used to build and deploy sophisticated data visualization and social network analysis applications. Backed by twenty years of pioneering research and development, Tom Sawyer Software products address the needs of the most demanding visualization and analysis application projects.

Leading global enterprises and governments use data visualization and analysis applications to detect hidden relationships, critical trends, and key patterns in their complex data sets in order to recognize emerging opportunities and threats.

Data Visualization Reference Architecture

Tom Sawyer Software is the industry leader in data visualization and social network analysis, providing software with excellent quality, range, performance, and scalability. All of our products are built around a common reference architecture that is designed to support efficient and scalable applications. This architecture consists of four distinct layers: Data and Model Integration, Data Modeling, Data Visualization, and Visual Interaction.

• The Model and Data Integration Layer creates a unified view of data from multiple disparate sources in the extended enterprise.
• The Data Modeling Layer defines a domain-oriented, attributed model of the data.
• The Data Visualization Layer supports the clear visual representation of the data in the user interface.
• The Visual Interaction Layer defines the way end users view, navigate, and edit the data.

Tom Sawyer Software products enable applications to efficiently decouple core activities in one layer from other layers.

Quality, Range, Performance, and Scalability

By design, Tom Sawyer Software products support the enterprise requirements of high performance and scalability. The resulting applications efficiently handle very large data sets, using high-performance data loading, efficient data access, state-of-the-art graph layout and graph analysis services, and capable graphics architectures with high-speed rendering.

Tom Sawyer Software products support network visualization and social network analysis applications requiring extreme scale by utilizing the most efficient and flexible algorithms for graph visualization and analysis. Offering a mature and extended range of capabilities, Tom Sawyer Software products support application domains that require complex drawing rules and intense diagramming techniques. Tom Sawyer Software products are mature enough to build applications in the electrical and CAD-oriented schematics, software engineering, and data and network modeling domains.

Flexible Development and Deployment

Tom Sawyer Software provides API library-based Software Development Kits (SDKs) and graphics-based design software to provide application development teams with a high degree of flexibility.

API-based products, such as Tom Sawyer Visualization, Tom Sawyer Layout, and Tom Sawyer Analysis, implement a subset of the data visualization and analysis reference architecture. These products are available on several software platforms and enable extended customization.

The graphics-based software product, Tom Sawyer Perspectives, supports the complete reference architecture coupled with a rules-based interface to enable efficient development of applications with rich capabilities. In addition, Tom Sawyer Perspectives exploits a project-based approach to facilitate design sharing and reuse, isolation from technology change, independence from software platforms, and decoupling from data sources for greater flexibility.