Data Visualization Software | Tom Sawyer Visualization, ASP.NET Edition

When integrated into your application, Tom Sawyer Visualization enables users to view data relationships in drawings that they can interact with.

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 Visualization.

Demonstration

Try the demonstration application to test the scalability, speed, and reliability of Tom Sawyer Visualization.

Release Notes

Review the release notes to see the latest features and enhancements that have been added to Tom Sawyer Visualization, ASP.NET Edition.

Evaluation

Request an evaluation to build a proof of concept application. The evaluation software comes complete with product documentation, tutorials, source code examples, technical support, and the complete source code for the demonstration application.

Features

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

Server Side

Technology

32-bit support
64-bit support
Flexible component architecture
Internationalizable
ASP.NET pages and Web Controls
Compatible with Tom Sawyer Analysis
Unified service design for layout and analysis

Drawings

Graph-based data model
Efficient iteration
Nodes with polygon shapes
Edges with routes
Nodes with connectors
Nested drawings
Attach properties to drawing elements
Event system
XML read and write

Graphics

Customizable UI types
Bitmap and vector images
Data-driven graphics
Rule-driven graphics
Level-of-detail graphics
Scene-based graphics
Drawing backgrounds
Node borders, colors, images, and text
Edge line thickness, colors, and styles
Arrowhead styles
Connector graphics
HTML-formatted tooltips
Multi-line tooltips
Multi-line text fields
Web page linking
Configure context menus
Configure cursors

Layout

Circular layout
Hierarchical layout
Orthogonal layout
Symmetric layout
Scalable layout
High-speed layout
Global layout
Incremental layout
Nested layout
Constraint-based layout
Labeling
Routing
Drawing fitting

Indicates the newest features.

Client Side

Technology

AJAX architecture
Lightweight communications with adaptive tiling
Non-blocking asynchronous updates

Display Components

Multiple drawings per web page
Drawing overview
Drawing element property inspector
Overlay pan and zoom control
Preconfigured canvas dimensions

Rendering

High-speed display
Image-mapped graphics
Image hot spots
Minimum invalid region refresh

Printing

Print setup
Print preview
Multi-page printing

User Interactions

Tools and commands
Hit testing
Automatic scroll
Standard selection
Marquee selection
Pan
Marquee zoom
Fit in canvas
Change cursors
Show tooltips
Show context menus

Complexity Management

Drill down
Drill up
Expand
Collapse
Nest
Fold
Hide

Diagramming

Undo and redo
Add, delete, and move

Layout

Scalable layout
High-speed layout
Circular layout
Hierarchical layout
Orthogonal layout
Symmetric layout
Multi-threaded layout
Global layout
Incremental layout
Nested layout
Partial nested layout
Constraint-based layout
Labeling
Routing

Indicates the newest features.

Tiering

Tom Sawyer Visualization is now available in tiered pricing categories. Tiering allows you to purchase individually priced sets of features and capabilities for your application. Over an application lifecycle, you may choose to expand the scope to include more robust features of Tom Sawyer Visualization.

Features	First Tier	Second Tier	Third Tier
Two layout styles
All layout styles
Global layout
Incremental layout
Constraint-based layout
Edge routing
Global labeling
Viewing tools group 1
Viewing tools group 2
Editing tools group
Drill down
Nesting
Hiding and folding

Customer chooses preferred layout styles at the time of purchase.

See Definitions.

Definitions

Layout Styles

Viewing Tools

Editing Tools

Circular layout
Hierarchical layout
Orthogonal layout
Symmetric layout
Tree layout

Group 1

Select
Pan
Marquee zoom

Group 2

Overview image
Property viewing

Add
Delete
Move

System Requirements

This table describes the supported operating systems and development environments.

Operating System	Architecture	Development Environments
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows 7	Intel-compatible	Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

Applications that use Tom Sawyer Visualization must be deployed on the Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) application server. Tom Sawyer Visualization supports IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0.

Client Environments

Tom Sawyer Visualization supports these browsers:

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