AVS Celebrates Fourteen Years of Innovation and Success in Visual Analysis

October of 2005 marked the fourteenth year of operations for Advanced Visual Systems, an industry pioneer serving corporate and technical decision makers around the globe with the industry’s most recognized and respected offering of data visualization tools and solutions.

By reasonable estimates, no other data visualization software company has touched as many end-users as AVS; over fourteen years, nearly five thousand customers have utilized AVS software to provide highly expressive graphics to upwards of one million decision-makers. 

From US and European offices, AVS continues to make continual improvements to its popular data visualization products to assure a future of innovative technologies that will continue to shape the decision-making experiences of software developers and end-users in every industry.

AVS/Express: Higher Performance Data Visualization

AVS/Express, now in its eighth year of release and extensive worldwide deployment, is introducing AVS/Express 7.0, a major upgrade to its already popular software system.

AVS/Express 7.0 increases rendering and application performance on all leading 64-bit platforms and adds dynamic new functionality for Macintosh OS-X users.

AVS/Express is used by thousands of customers worldwide to extract new meaning from all types of large and complex datasets. AVS/Express Visualization Edition is used by individual researchers to conduct complex analysis; the Developer Edition of the popular product adds additional functionality and permits the distribution of run-time applications; and the Multipipe Edition permits teams of researchers to view presentations using the latest in immersive systems.

Toolmaster: Unmatched Platform Compatibility

A significant upgrade has been made to the popular Toolmaster development environment. Toolmaster 7.4 adds support for additional platforms (including Mac OS-X and 64-bit architectures) and many new features that extend the Toolmaster cross-platform library of more than 500 C/C++ and FORTRAN functions for scientific, technical and commercial graphics.

Gsharp: Fast and Sophisticated Charts

An upgrade to the Gsharp system has been made for creating and publishing sophisticated charts, graphs and data presentations.

Gsharp 3.4 adds a wide array of presentation layout features that extend the ability of desktop analysis and application developers to quickly create highly expressive technical graphics using an intelligent user interface, automatic scripting and broad data import capabilities. The latest release also provides platform enhancements, including full support Apple OS X.

Gsharp offers full support for all Windows, Linux, VMS and UNIX platforms, making it easy to assemble and produce sophisticated technical graphics from an extensive library of plot types and functions.

OpenViz Particles: New Name, More Options

AVS’ popular OpenViz technology—first released in 1998—now features additional functionality and has been re-branded as OpenViz Particles.

Prominent new features of OpenViz Particles include enhanced .NET capabilities, additional functionality for scalable vector graphic (SVG) rendering of data visualizations, and a host of new techniques for expressing large and complex datasets.

OpenViz Particles is the industry’s most advanced data visualization system for adding interactive graphics, charts and functionality to ISV products and enterprise applications.

Introducing OpenViz Elements

When AVS first released OpenViz in 1999, it revolutionized the world of data visualization for business and analytics by incorporating nearly a decade of product engineering expertise into a single visualization toolkit.

After years of successful deployment by leading corporations and software manufacturers worldwide, AVS has released OpenViz Elements, a powerful new toolkit that fuses the power of highly customizable OpenViz techniques with a powerful data management framework.