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"NetCharts Applets not only delivered the functionality but, the product's robust features, the ability to respond to customer requirements for more charting functionality."
Customer Success Stories
The ultimate test of any solution is the success it brings to the customer. Here are just a few of the success stories Visual Mining customers have shared.
"We looked at more expensive solutions but chose NetCharts because we knew we could get the same high quality dashboards at a more cost-effective price," said Aamir Mehdi, Fonterra Supply Chain Manager in Dubai. "We were also quite impressed with the responsiveness of Visual Mining's sales and technical service teams; we knew we'd be in good hands if we needed future assistance with NCPD."
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According to DataMotion’s founder and head of IT, Ricardo Rego, DataMotion chose Visual Mining’s NetCharts Performance Dashboards because “Visual Mining's sales team and technical support team showed 100% commitment to helping us find a solution that worked with DataMotion software. NCPD is cost-effective and very easy to use, and I know my clients and partners share the same opinion.”
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“NetCharts Designer and Server provide an easy, affordable way for us to add additional value to our customers,” said Jordan Wood, Director, Technical Sales & Support, TierOne Hospitality. “And Visual Mining has been a great partner -- we could not be happier with the help and support we’ve received.”
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“NetCharts Performance Dashboards enhances our existing reports in ways we have never been able to do before. NCPD is an insanely powerful tool. It has had an immediate impact on our operational processes and has had the unforeseen benefit of uncovering data and process inconsistencies,” said Michael Hurst, Director of IT, American Exteriors, LLC.
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When considering other data visualization solutions, Global Harvest Foods’ IT Director Rod Epps noted, “The more expensive solutions couldn’t offer the flexibility and scalability we needed and found with NetCharts Performance Dashboards, Server and Designer. Efficiency is what drives our business, and NetCharts software helps us visualize our production and operational processes to ensure that we run our business efficiently and effectively.”
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“NetCharts Pro is great technology. It is easy to use, reliable, and helps us provide incredible value to our customers,” said Crispin Panyard, Vice President of Operations for Eyelit. “In fact, we’ve been so impressed with NetChart Pro, we’re looking to add other products from the NetCharts product suite, such as NetCharts Performance Dashboards, to help provide even greater customer value.”
“We chose NetCharts Performance Dashboards (NCPD) because in addition to looking fantastic, NCPD provides an easy, intuitive way for us to deliver value to our customers.”
“From an OEM perspective, NetCharts Performance Dashboards is an ideal business intelligence/dashboard solution. By selecting NetCharts Performance Dashboards, we certainly saved development time and money—and are able to improve customer satisfaction.”
“NetCharts Performance Dashboards frees up considerable time and resources. Directors will now be able to focus on transport issues and not on software issues.”
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“NCPD supplies very powerful functionality… We saved time and money by going with NetCharts Performance Dashboards.”
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“Our clients depend on us to identify the people, issues and trends impacting their business. NetCharts Pro enables us to offer graphics that help to slice and dice vital data. It would have been too time-consuming and costly to build our own application so being able to use this off the shelf is a huge benefit.”
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“One of the key benefits is the sheer value NCPD delivers—we can quickly create and deploy dashboards for our customers that allow them to interact with their data as they prefer. It’s an incredibly powerful product in our portfolio.”
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"We’ve been very impressed with the ease of integration of NetCharts. It saves a great deal of time and money in development—and helps ensure we have satisfied, happy customers. I wish we could comment on the quality of Visual Mining customer support—but I don’t think we’ve had more than one question over the past eight years…. NetCharts is obviously a rock-solid product."
"With NetChart Applets it is very easy to create pretty, complex charts in a short period of time. There are many good examples to help get you started. I really love the annotation feature. It allows endless possibilities for customization."
"Here at Schlumberger Austin Product center we are using NetChart Applets in our metrics program to monitor defect tracking. We have linked it to our Sybase defect tracking database to project monthly activity by product. This allows QA, managers, and developers to view the status of their product defects via the chart and to drill down getting a list which meets the SQL query. We have linked the list to the actual defect report so that individuals can see the details if they desire."
"Management can see and determine why changes are occurring in the profitability of the business. We are very pleased with our investment."
"One of the requirements for the new report writer was the ability to deliver dynamic graphing capabilities with each report that a customer developed. NetCharts Applets not only delivered the functionality but, due to the product's robust features, the ability to respond to customer requirements for more charting functionality."
"With the rollout of this mainframe Web interface there will be a large number of different areas at Ford accessing data with Net.Data. And NetCharts Applets will be a central part of these solutions."
"Better and faster financial analysis through the use of graphs enhances our customers' ability to visualize and understand the information being presented. NetCharts Pro's library of charts and graphs, and ease of integration motivated us to make the decision to go with an existing solution. NetCharts Pro allowed us to offer data visualization in our software much more quickly."
"We selected the NetCharts Reporting Suite software based on its flexibility, functionality, and ease of use. We chose Visual Mining to augment our reporting offerings because of its functionality and like us, they have demonstrated a genuine interest and dedication to helping their clients."
"Visual Mining's world-class capabilities will enable Syntricity's customers to easily view and analyze their statistical data to improve yield, reduce product develop-ment cycles, and increase profits."
"We reviewed several competing products and found Visual Mining's NetCharts Pro offered the best capabilities for creating both pre-designed and custom charts within our solutions. This adds a huge amount of value for our modern manufacturing customers who need to assess data quickly to make vital business decisions."
"We chose NetCharts Server from Visual Mining over other solutions because we needed the capability to produce time series and other scientific charts, which Server had built into it, and the ease of development made it a perfect choice. NetCharts Server also offered greater ease in setting up connections to our backend 10GB Oracle database. We are finding NetCharts Server to be a cost-effective solution."
"Our clients want to show their data in graphical format wherever possible. Since the graphs are automatically generated from the data we store, the information is fresh every time and administration is a snap. 100% of our infiPOINT clients have the NetCharts feature deployed. NetCharts Applets makes it easy for us to provide powerful graphic functionality to our clients. It is a stalwart of our service, expected by our clients, reliable, providing an unmatched professional presentation. We will continue to deploy NetCharts Applets to all of our new clients."
"By better utilizing existing compute resources or outsourcing processing needs, United Devices' customers can alleviate bottlenecks and tackle complex computational problems with greater success. Using graphical reports for system performance analysis enhances our customers' ability to understand the information Grid MPT presents and to act more effectively on it. NetCharts Server's graphical reporting capabilities, server technology and effortless integration made it easy to decide to go with an existing."
"We are collecting data from multiple systems and, with the use of XML and XSL, rendering clinical data graphs dynamically using NetCharts Applets in a physicians' portal accessed by over 700 physicians. We selected NetCharts primarily for the date/time line object controls built into the graph applets, specifically the combo chart. This was a huge time-saver to deploy time-sensitive data to our physicians in a graphical format. Another factor was the portability of java applets to any server environment."
"We performed a very detailed investigation of companies that provided web-based reporting solutions. We chose NetCharts Server for its capability, price, performance, and tremendous support."
"NetCharts Server was integrated into the Prexis product by my development staff. It was fairly straightforward and the support staff at Visual Mining was very responsive to any issue or concern we had during the integration."
"We plot the response and performance of call handling times on the Web--for our customers to access and read."
"[Visual Mining solutions allowed Sun UK to] fully automate the graph production and therefore removed the manual intervention, which not only slowed the process down, but has cost a great deal of resource."
"[We] can distribute the charts to any Java enabled browser without the need to distribute any executables or components."
"The functionality. is extremely impressive, allowing the creation of more styles of charts than we will ever need."
"Measuring the performance and competitive strength of regional economies has been difficult because clusters have not been systematically identified and mapped across all U.S. regions. (With NetCharts Server) ISC uses data visualization techniques to allow its constituents to quickly and easily interpret data and to facilitate competitiveness of companies, regions, and industries."
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"Our typical clients are large Auto, Industrial or Aerospace OEM's. We have just announced the release of our MSM 4.0 Application to the market, and we are about launch the first client deployment using NetCharts Pro. NetCharts Pro allows for aggregation of the core analysis data output from our MSM application to be displayed in an easy to understand format."
"In addition, we have plans for deploying NetCharts Pro in our Coordinated Network Procurement (CNP) product at several large Auto/truck OEM's in the US, as it allows for standard browser-only clients of CNP to see graphical views of the monthly reports like direct material cost savings, invoice summaries, and more."
"The Maxager Profit Velocity architecture relies heavily on the use of graphs and charts to present complex information to the end user. NetCharts Beans (now NetCharts Pro) gives us the ability to bring interactive Web-based profitability charts to market in an aggressive timeframe."
"NetCharts Reporting Suite will help us increase employee productivity and offer the executive team a quick snapshot of all subsidiary operations."
"We reviewed several competing products and felt that Visual Mining's was the most versatile and user friendly. We eagerly look forward to implementing the product for use throughout our corporate offices and subsidiaries worldwide."
"The dynamic nature of NetCharts Server and its ability to rapidly generate many different types of graphs made it the perfect fit for our Knowledge Management system."
"[Visual Mining solutions] graphically represent the customers positions, asset allocation and profitability, adding a further dimension to the interactivity and usability of the OPM product."
"Education Watch Online is powered by Visual Mining NetCharts Server, which provides interactive, user-friendly graphs of national and state data on achievement patterns and educational opportunities by race and class, kindergarten through college."
"Holy Name Hospital IT is using NetCharts Applets to show everything from patient vitals to cash flow analysis. Holy Name is also working on...an executive dashboard that will monitor staff and patient census graphically, as well as system perfor-mance. They will also be integrating graphs into cardiac monitoring for near-real-time charting, as well as plotting lab data, radiology data, and payroll trends. For Holy Name Hospital IT, NetCharts paid for itself within a week of operation."
"I just wanted to let you know that we are very impressed with your product. Being a developer myself, I recognize quality code when I see it and your product oozes craftsmanship. Your company is truly staffed with skilled programmers."
"Java skills were not something the team was equipped with, but with the flexibility of [the Visual Mining Products] ... it is a tool any team member with just HTML experience can utilize to produce professional looking charts."
"We can cut our report creation and delivery time by as much as 50%. That means we can focus more on selling, core product development, and revenue-generating professional services activities."
"After reviewing many solutions - from open source to expensive data mining tools - Visual Mining gave UMMC all the tools needed, at a reasonable price. First, the data from the labor reports was stored in a database. Then, using the Visual Mining NetCharts Server to generate a labor trending report on the fly, the 500+ cost center managers, directors and vice presidents seeking to find labor trends saved many, many hours of manual effort."
"We decided NetCharts (Applets) was the right visual reporting software product to integrate into our data collection applications due to it's rich feature set and platform independence that will facilitate the expectations of our customers. NetCharts helped us complete our applications more quickly, and deliver more informative and concise ways for our clients to understand the technical data."
"Both NetCharts (Applets) and NetCharts Pro saved us a lot of time creating chart images, plus we found NetCharts relatively easy to use for chart applets. We're thinking about migrating to NetCharts Server for demanding web applications in the future. More importantly, we chose Visual Mining's products because there's a serious company behind them, valuing support and feature enhancements."