Data Visualization Software | Tom Sawyer Perspectives

The versatile graphics components of Tom Sawyer Perspectives provide all the quality features found in Tom Sawyer Visualization products and add a great deal more. Whether you want to build a new desktop or web application, or add data visualization to an existing application, your application can be completed in a fraction of the time usually required.

Tour

Take a video tour that teaches you how to create a basic visualization application with Tom Sawyer Perspectives in less than ten minutes. You can customize and define rules with the Tom Sawyer Perspectives Project Designer to visualize a management hierarchy as an organizational chart.

The tour begins by teaching you how to use the Project Designer's graphical application interface to integrate Microsoft Excel data that describes your organizational structure into your project. Next, you will learn how to transform that data into a variety of views to clearly display an organizational chart.

Evaluation

Request an evaluation and try it with your own data, in your own development environment. The evaluation software comes complete with product documentation, tutorials, source code examples, and technical support.

Features

Add immediate value to your application by incorporating these robust features:

Web Applications

Server Side

Technology

JDK 5.0 and 6.0
IDE
SDK
Flexible component architecture
Ease of integration
Ease of integrator configuration
Ease of view configuration
100% Pure Java components
Internationalization

Layout

Variety of layout styles
Scalable layout
High-speed layout
Global layout
Incremental layout
Nested layout
Constraint-based layout
Labeling
Routing
Drawing fitting to canvas or printed page

Client Side

Technology

AJAX architecture
Support for GWT framework
Efficient server communication
Customizable CSS for views and display component

Projects

Project based design
Graphical application design

Process

Design
Preview
Deploy

Model

Validity check
Re-entrant model
Multi-threaded data model
Attributed data model
User specified schema
Expression defined schema attributes
Model index
Event system
Commit
Update
Attribute values can be computed from expressions using functions or other attributes
Attribute values can be synchronized with graphical element properties

Printing

Print setup
Print preview
Multipage printing

Integrators

Access data in data sources
Databases
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
Plain text files
XML files
XML integrator supports namespaces
Transfer data to model
Transfer changes from model to data source

Filters

Integrator filters
View filters

Data Management

Attach properties to each object
Property viewing and editing

Views

Drawings
Inspectors
Trees
Tables
Tab panels
Split panels
Coordinated view updates
Model driven views
Rule driven views
Synchronized views
Simultaneous views

Display

Customizable toolbars
Customizable context menus
High-speed display
Multiline tooltips
Multiline labels

Interactive Environment

Tools and commands
Multilevel undo/redo
Hit testing
Model driven selection
Edit between model and view

Viewing

Overview window
Pan
Marquee zoom
Fit in canvas
Scroll and zoom control panel
Automatic scroll

Editing

Add, delete, and move
Model based undo/redo

Complexity Management

Expand
Collapse
Nest

Layout

Variety of layout styles
Threaded layout
Layout cancel
Scalable layout
High-speed layout
Global layout
Incremental layout
Nested layout
Constraint-based layout
Labeling
Routing

Indicates the newest features.

Desktop Applications

Technology

JDK 5.0 and 6.0
IDE
SDK
Flexible component architecture
Ease of integration
Ease of integrator configuration
Ease of view configuration
100% Pure Java components
Internationalization

Projects

Project based design
Graphical application design

Process

Design
Preview
Deploy

Model

Validity check
Re-entrant model
Multi-threaded data model
Attributed data model
User specified schema
Expression defined schema attributes
Model index
Event system
Commit
Update
Attribute values can be computed from expressions using functions or other attributes
Attribute values can be synchronized with graphical element properties

Filters

Integrator filters
View filters

Integrators

Access data in data sources
Databases
Microsoft Excel spreadsheets
Plain text files
XML files
XML integrator supports namespaces
Transfer data to model
Transfer changes from model to data source

Data Management

Attach properties to each object
Property viewing and editing

Views

Drawings
Trees
Tables
Inspectors
Model driven views
Rule driven views
Synchronized views
Simultaneous views

Display

Customizable toolbars
Customizable context menus
High-speed display
In-memory drawing
Multiline tooltips
Multiline labels

Interactive Environment

Tools and commands
Multilevel undo/redo
Hit testing
Model driven selection
Edit between model and view

Viewing

Overview
Pan
Marquee zoom
Interactive zoom
Fit in canvas
Automatic scroll
Link navigation

Editing

Add, delete, and move
Model based undo/redo

Complexity Management

Expand
Collapse
Nest

Printing and Exporting

Print preview
Multipage printing
Image export

Layout

Scalable layout
High-speed layout
Variety of layout styles
Threaded layout
Layout cancel
Layout animation
Global layout
Incremental layout
Nested layout
Constraint-based layout
Labeling
Routing
Drawing fitting to canvas or printed page

Indicates the newest features.

System Requirements

Tom Sawyer Perspectives can be used with any system running a 32-bit or 64-bit Java 2 virtual machine. Incorporating Tom Sawyer Perspectives requires the Sun Microsystems Java Development Kit (JDK) 5.0 or 6.0. Developing GWT-based applications with Tom Sawyer Perspectives requires GWT 2.0.3.

Operating System	Architecture	JDK
Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Apple Mac OS X 10.6	PowerPC and Intel Intel	5.0 6.0
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Intel-compatible	5.0 and 6.0 5.0 and 6.0 5.0 and 6.0 5.0 and 6.0 5.0 and 6.0
Sun Solaris 10	Sun SPARC	5.0 and 6.0

The 32-bit compatibility layer is required for 64-bit Linux systems.

Server Environments

Tom Sawyer Perspectives web applications can be deployed on these application servers:

Apache Tomcat 6.0
IBM Websphere 7.0
Oracle WebLogic Server 11g
Red Hat JBoss 5.1

Client Environments

Tom Sawyer Perspectives supports these browsers:

Apple Safari 4.0 and 5.0
Google Chrome 4.0 and 5.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 and 8.0
Mozilla Firefox 3.5 and 3.6

Press

See the latest news from Tom Sawyer Software about how advances in technology and new features provide added benefits for developing your application with Tom Sawyer Perspectives.

Release Notes

Review the release notes to see the latest features and enhancements that have been added to Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Java Edition.