Implementing Heatmaps with LogiXML
June 26, 2008
Currently Heatmaps are widely used in science and the financial sector, heatmaps are very intuitive and information dense or put another way, they are simple, easy to use and convey a lot of information, quickly.
Outside of specialist tools or alternatively pure graphics packages, the software world is being quite slow to facilitate the widespread adoption of the heatmap as an analytical tool. This is probably best illustrated by the inclusion of just the most basic Heatmap functionality in Microsoft Office 2007, which, while a good start and ahead of the pack in terms of delivering heat maps more widely, will need a few more iterations before this can help provide effective analytics.
LogiXML embed heatmaps in all of their reporting tools, Logi Info, Logi OLAP and Logi Ad Hoc, using Logi Ad Hoc, following installation of the software and establishing a data connection, the business user can start to develop and share Heatmap analyses, with colleagues, within minutes.
Using Logi’s flexible dashboard technology these Heatmaps can be combined into a dashboard style presentation without any programming or other technical input
