Company
Date Published
Author
Brendan Madden
Word count
1330
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Tom Sawyer Software is a graph data visualization tool that was founded long before graph databases first hit the market. The company has expanded its services to include solutions for network topology, link analysis, and more, serving customers across various industries such as aerospace, retail, and others. By relying on Neo4j as the central tool for their data integration, Tom Sawyer offers a variety of data views and more detailed graph analysis. The company's CEO Brendan Madden discussed the challenges of working with big data and how they're solving these problems using Neo4j. Tom Sawyer has grown into a full-service data visualization vendor over the past few years, offering solutions that span from network topology to link analysis, and customer data models for binding data to multiple sources. The company's design-preview-deploy tooling architecture allows customers to decide where to deploy an application after development, with options including Java, .NET, web or desktop deployment. Tom Sawyer also uses Cypher and Neo4j Bolt protocols for automatic property graph extraction and rapid application development. The company offers a range of data views, including charting architecture, table-based views, tree views, and VB-style inspector views, as well as advanced drawing and layout functions such as constraint-based automatic drawing and labeling technology.