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Business at a Glance
"business at a glance" We created the Business@glance "Cockpit" for IBM Partnership Executives. It is an interactive visual application for gleaning insight from IBM business data "at a glance." It is integrated to multiple data sources, and its web interface features multiple interactive visual reports: 
  • Revenue@glance 
  • Competition@glance 
  • Geography@glance 
  • History@glance 
  • Web@glance 
Customer Relationship Management
"customer view" The "Customer View" application demonstrates value in merging customer call and operational data. It is a Java-based web application. Each customer contact is displayed as a glyph. It features 
  • Dynamic sorting of glyphs by category 
  • Dynamic coloring 
  • Dynamic drilldown 
Risk Management (PRAISE)
"Praise" Portfolio Risk Analysis with Integrated Selection and Exploration is a foreign exchange risk analysis prototype which we created in collaboration with a major international bank. It allows an analyst to interactively investigate the contributions of different "books," or portfolios, of foreign currency positions to the overall risk situation of the bank. PRAISE is based on the Diamond technology wrapped in ActiveX components.
Foreign Currency Options
"foreign currency options" We participated in a project to visualize foreign currency exchange options. The goal of the project was to create a visualization application for use by non-experts (the marketing team) to reason about, and communicate about options behavior. The application provides a 3-D "frame" for exploring options behavior from now until expiration. The frame provides context for visualizing multiple parametes simultaneously, and is linked with rule-based options database search and web delivery of visualizations.
"An Interactive Framework for Visualizing Foreign Currency Options," D. Gresh, B. Rogowitz, J. Mayland, IEEE Visualization 1999.IEEE-Copyright 1999 by IEEE. Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post to servers, or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee.
FAMS: Fraud and Abuse Management System
FAMS is an IBM GBIS solution for identifying fraudulent providers by profiling and scoring "behaviors". It includes Java, Diamond, and DB2. Diamond provides data visualization, data computation, scoring, and manipulation. Major customers are Aetna and Blue Cross 

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Pennsylvania Department of Commerce and Economic Development
"demographic database" We created a thin client Data Explorer application for an intranet information kiosk for the purpose of facilitating analysis of the state's demographic and economic data in order to attract new business.