Tom Sawyer Software Blog | Graph and Data Visualization

July 28, 2017August 16, 2017 by Matthew Spaur • No Comments

Introducing Intelligent MBSE Diagram Automation to Global Leaders at INCOSE 2017 in Australia

INCOSE 2017 Keynote Speaker AVM Mel Hupfeld’s Presentation on Force Design

Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is revolutionizing how engineers tackle big projects in critical industries such as aerospace, energy, government, manufacturing, and telecom. One barrier to MBSE for many organizations is maintaining, customizing, and validating the hundreds of diagrams associated with a complex model.

Systems engineers often spend only 20 percent of their time modeling the system. The remaining 80 percent is spent rearranging and maintaining diagrams. Automatically rearranging MBSE diagrams reverses this dynamic and lets engineers focus on engineering. Read More “Introducing Intelligent MBSE Diagram Automation to Global Leaders at INCOSE 2017 in Australia”

June 12, 2017July 24, 2017 by Lana Chan • No Comments

The Best Kept Secret in Geospatial Intelligence

Chief Software Engineer Kevin Madden Demonstrates GDELT Global Knowledge Graph in Oracle and Tom Sawyer Software Booths at GEOINT 2017

Our team just got back from the GEOINT 2017 Symposium where we partnered with the Oracle National Security Group to visualize all the world’s news in near-real time. The demonstration shows how one could conduct cyber threat analysis and geospatial intelligence on a massive, diverse data set, in this case, the GDELT Global Knowledge Graph.

I sat down with Kevin Madden, our Chief Software Engineer, and Deborah Baron, our Marketing Vice President, to uncover why Tom Sawyer Software is the best-kept secret in geospatial intelligence. We also discussed what was special about partnering with Oracle at the annual Symposium. Read More “The Best Kept Secret in Geospatial Intelligence”

May 9, 2017July 5, 2017 by Lana Chan • No Comments

Update 2017: Trends, Customers, and Product Development

Thanks to our amazing global community, we grew revenue 30% in 2016 in existing and new customer accounts and discovered innovative new use cases. Now we’d like to give back by sharing what we’ve learned in our Newsletter Blog post. Read on to learn about market trends, industry standards, upcoming events, and what’s new in product development.

Market Trends

Airbus Presentation at Big Data Paris 2017 — Hugo Falgarone, Airbus and Keith Haag, Tom Sawyer Software Present on Stage at Big Data Paris 2017

We see a rise in graph and data visualization activity across market segments including automotive, aerospace and defense, geospatial intelligence, enterprise network and IT Infrastructure, and model-based engineering. For example, at Big Data Paris 2017, Airbus outlined their innovative approach to model-based systems engineering (MBSE) using graph and data visualizations. To support MBSE, they use Tom Sawyer Perspectives to integrate diverse data sourcesand synchronize views so architects, engineers, and business managers can collaborate and streamline the design and manufacture of aircraft.

March 27, 2017March 28, 2017 by Deborah Baron • 1 Comment

Neo4j Bolt Support and Geospatial Maps in Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Version 7.6 Aid Intelligence, Security, and Speed

We’re thrilled to announce that Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Version 7.6 for Java and .NET were made available last week. Version 7.6 introduces new Tom Sawyer Maps, support for the OpenLayers map API and the Neo4j Bolt protocol, and performance enhancements.

Tom Sawyer Maps

The intelligence community, network security managers, systems engineers, and architects share a common need—to see entities (people, places, things, and events) on geospatial maps. In addition they need to see logical drawings and schematics of the entities and relationships between them over time. Creating visualizations of all of this connected data on an ordinary geographic map is hard to do and the maps can get messy and extremely difficult to read. Read More “Neo4j Bolt Support and Geospatial Maps in Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Version 7.6 Aid Intelligence, Security, and Speed”

March 16, 2017March 24, 2017 by Lana Chan • 1 Comment

What Do Big Data Paris and the Panama Papers Have In Common?

Tom Sawyer Software at Big Data Paris 2017

We’re back from an exciting week at Big Data Paris 2017 where we were featured by our customer Airbus in their presentation on enterprise big data integration and graph visualizations. We were delighted to meet up with our Neo Technology France and UK partners and had a great turnout for our workshop on Airbus and Twitter big data.

At our booth, in addition to the very cool Airbus GAIA demonstration on a two meter-wide multi-touch screen, fraud detection, criminal investigations, and networking
were the hot topics. Our crime network and Panama Papers demos were very popular with attendees looking for big data and graph visualization technology.

February 21, 2017March 28, 2017 by Deborah Baron • 4 Comments

Welcome to Our New Blog!

Data Visualization Examples — Graph and data visualization examples

Our goals for the Blog parallel closely with the goals of our technology: to help people light up connections between data, see them from multiple perspectives, and take action. Our customers and partners tell us this is critical. Along with our customers, we have a phenomenal extended community of technology innovators, standards groups, and academic thought leaders from around the world. They are at the heart of transforming digital enterprises.

Like our technology, our Blog will present relevant perspectives from our community and from a variety of data sources to help you see connections, learn from experts, answer questions, and discover new pathways. Read More “Welcome to Our New Blog!”