A Stanford research project turned data analysis into something you could do by dragging a field. Now, inside Salesforce, Tableau is testing how much of that conversation an AI agent can carry.
The expensive part of an investigation is finding out what matters. Reveal has spent years buying the tools to move that moment closer to the start.
Before knowledge graphs became a boardroom phrase, i2 was helping detectives turn phone logs and witness statements into maps of who knew whom. Thirty-six years later, its most important feature is still the one no model can automate away: showing the analyst their work.
Tom Sawyer Software is a Berkeley, California company founded in 1992 - the first commercial firm devoted entirely to graph visualization, layout, and analysis. Its low-code platform, Tom Sawyer Perspectives, plus tools like Explorations and the SysML v2 Viewer, let enterprises, governments, and software vendors turn tangled networks of data into readable pictures: fraud rings, supply chains, telecom topologies, and system models. Bootstrapped, profitable, and global, it has spent three decades drawing the lines between things.
Jim Bartoo is the CEO and a board member of Visual Action Software, a Texas-based enterprise visualization company built on patented Flaremap treemap technology that helps organizations spot threats, monitor performance, and reduce risk. A Cornell-trained engineer with an MBA from the same school, he spent more than 25 years across Oracle, Business Objects, and EDS before leading The Hive Group and engineering its 2015 merger that formed today's Visual Action.
Visual Action Software builds operational visualization tools for organizations drowning in big data. Its patented Flaremap technology - a descendant of the treemap - powers the Visual Action Platform, turning dense, real-time data into visual interfaces that help analysts spot threats, monitor performance, and reduce risk. The company serves defense and national intelligence, financial services, healthcare, and core infrastructure customers from its base in Orchard Park, New York.