An obscure little company called Ward Analytics was displaying a Teradata performance management tool at the recent Teradata Partners conference, and I just found the visualization to be very cool. Yes, it’s full-screen, but there’s a LOT of information on the screen — basically, what amounts to about four graphs or charts, each of them complex. Plus there are lots of widgets to adjust what you see. And I actually don’t think full-screen is much of a drawback; you just have to be smart about the simpler elements you put in a portal-based UI that then blow up into complex full-screen ones on demand.

This screenshot doesn’t do the product — called Visual Edge — full justice, but it gives a pretty good taste. The weirdest part is that Ward rolled its own technology to create Visual Edge, feeling there were no generally suitable visualizations out there in the market for it to adopt.

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