“The problem is figuring out how to organize and display the data in a useful and informative way, instead of forcing people to sift through heaps of mind-numbing spreadsheets…[The] Hive Group…uses [treemaps] to help corporations display a variety of data, such as stock prices or computer systems.”

On Friday May 29th, as part of the University of Maryland annual HCIL Symposium, The Hive Group will present a full day workshop on corporate adoption of enterprise treemapping solutions: “Treemaps: From Classroom to Boardroom…and Beyond”.

“Invented by Ben Shneiderman in the early 1990s, treemaps are becoming increasingly common. Shneiderman sits on the board of advisors of The Hive Group...major corporations and government agencies use its treemap software to track production metrics, material flow, tool status, quality issues, inventory, and preventive maintenance.”
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“Honeycomb API 2.0 empowers commercial and public sector organizations who demand a more sophisticated level of control.  The full potential of Honeycomb’s source code has been unleashed to support the development of custom treemap applications, deep product integrations, and brand new visualization technologies.”

“The Total Life Cycle Management Common Operating Picture (TLCM-COP) application provides a common view of weapons systems and equipment status, enabling USMC senior leadership to make decisions efficiently and effectively using the same information as program managers and the fleet.”

“The world's leading provider of treemap visualization software now offers more options than ever for enterprise and extranet deployments. Built around The Hive Group's core generation engine technology, Honeycomb 5.5 leverages common algorithms and functionality, while enabling diverse deployment environments. This approach addresses the unique needs of architects, suits the flexibility requirements of developers, and accommodates the security and management objectives of administrators — all while supporting the varied platforms of end users.”

Computer Business Review summarizes the newest Honeycomb™ release: “Honeycomb 5.2, the enterprise visualization suite...provide[s] a consolidated way to analyze complex information.”

“The Hive Group announces the newest release of its flagship product, Honeycomb, the enterprise visualization suite that provides a consolidated, powerful way to look at complex information. The new Honeycomb 5.2 more fully embeds into business processes, empowering users to create unique treemaps, present focused information, investigate and analyze target performance areas, and resolve problems.”

“Today's data miners know everything! Political insiders are wide-eyed over... software ... from The Hive Group. "Honeycomb" reveals hidden patterns and tendencies inside voter behavior.”

Jeremy Wagstaff of The Wall Street Journal writes, “One of the things that bugs me about our oh-so-cool information revolution is this: We show such little imagination in how we actually look at that information...There has to be a better way...One of the best is the treemap.”
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“Business analytic applications are a strong component of the success of The Hive Group’s treemaps , which have been widely used for insurance claims analysis, product sales monitoring, and oil/gas production. A major success story...”

“The U.S. Marine Corps uses a series of treemaps called the Marines Equipment Readiness Information Tool to track maintenance and readiness data for all Marine Corps equipment. . . 'Readiness is our return on investment,' says Michael Williamson, department director for studies and analysis at the Marine Corps logistics command. The system also makes it easy to analyze repair costs and maintenance rates for specific types of equipment, he says.”

Names The Hive Group as one of three innovators providing access to Amazon's data.

“CEOs need a dynamic, visual environment to help them simulate extreme conditions - to help them understand the complex interplay of the market landscape, competitive pressures and the limits of their corporation. The good news is that visualization technology is finally getting sophisticated enough to fill this need.”

“In September, Hyperion released a product called Visual Explorer along with its Essbase data analysis software. Customers can view the data using objects with different shapes and colours that change as you drag different dimensions of data into the picture. A US-based competitor, the Hive Group, focuses on tree mapping, a technique developed at the University of Maryland. Tree mapping takes a hierarchical "tree" of information and turns it on its end, displaying the most detailed pieces of data - the roots - as squares inside supersets of data that help to categorise and describe data more easily.”

“The Marine Corps Equipment Readiness Information Tool, or MERIT, is a decision support tool that integrates data from stove-piped logistics systems. It provides a graphical depiction of units' readiness, and detailed supply and maintenance information. It creates views by commodity, functional area and organization. Just as important, MERIT gives all users, from privates to generals, a common frame of reference.”

“Now the private that's entering the information late at night ... he knows his captain is going to see it, his battalion commander is going to see it.”

Amazon names Hive as one of six innovative companies using AWS to provide a better customer experience.

“One of the more novel ways to search for products on Amazon is through a search feature that isn't accessed from the Amazon site [it's a visual search interface from The Hive Group]”