Technology

ILOG Discovery is a visual information exploration tool. From data sets gathered from your information systems (such as spreadsheets, statistical or usage databases, usage logs or accounting data), ILOG Discovery provides simple yet powerful dialogs to view this data in many different ways. It lets you highlight trends, spot general patterns, or pinpoint exceptions to find out what underlying structures govern your data. ILOG Discovery can easily handle large amounts of data and produce a wide variety of visualizations with very few manipulations, which makes it a completely novel exploration tool.

Here are some examples of visualizations you can create with ILOG Discovery:

Overviews let you get a sense of your database content.
Graphs let you analyze trends and find exceptions, to refine your sense of content,
Data Maps and Hierarchies let you categorize, hierarchize and distribute, get a sense of structure.
Combinations and Custom Visualizations let you fine tune your views with unmatched flexibility in an interactive tool to best highlight your findings.

To complement the interactive tool, a tightly coupled Java component lets you customize those views, connect them with up-to-date data from enterprise information systems and deploy them on enterprise portals or integrate ILOG Discovery functionality in your applications.

ILOG Discovery relies on a patented model which enables describing a very large class of visualizations with a point-and-click interface. Technically oriented persons may want to read the white paper to understand the depth of Discovery's power.Another white paper explains the concept of Direct Data Manipulation.

Two videos showing Discovery main features let you grasp the main concepts in a short time: the visualization model, and direct data editing.