Application : visual analysis and reporting of business data

Analyzing business data and reporting findings is a major activity throughout all industry branches today. Yet, subtle - hence interesting - findings are difficult to communicate, because relevant details (trends, exceptions, patterns…) need to be placed in context and highlighted properly. Existing visual tools provide only limited sorts of views (charts, histograms), with only surface customization and no features for interactive view navigation and refinement. To communicate business data information, rich visual displays, providing both overview and interactive access to details, for both quantitative and structured types of data, need to be easy to create from existing data sources and easy to deploy to decision makers.

Addressing those issues, ILOG Discovery is an interactive tool to design and present visually rich information displays from multiple data sources. This tool comes with ready-to-use overview displays and specialized views for numerical, categorical and structured data. The views are highly customizable to let expert analysts draw attention to their findings better. Interactive features enable users to select items of interest, isolate findings and perform visual comparisons. A component tightly coupled to the interactive tool lets customize those displays, connect them with up-to-date data from enterprise information systems and deploy them on enterprise portals.

With ILOG Discovery, Business users can discover trends using preset visualizations and create meaningful representations to highlight relevant findings. Advanced users (business analysts, programmers, engineers, statisticians..) can discover trends, hidden patterns or underlying structures of their crucial data sets, using a point and click "power user" interface. Developers can create interactively sophisticated visualizations of large data sets and integrate them in their applications without coding.

The data analysis example pages show you various kinds of analyses that have been performed using ILOG Discovery in a variety of business contexts.