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"Some companies are helping their business by integrating visualization tools into their own software products. EPlus Inc., for example, sells software that helps companies manage procurement and suppliers. But it's a tall order, as executives struggle to assimilate purchasing data from sources scattered throughout a company. "It's a tower of Babel," says Ken Farber, president of the Herndon, Va., company. "The ability to correlate data and to visualize data is something clients have been asking for."
By integrating visualization software from Antarctica Systems Inc. of Vancouver, British Columbia, in its own products, ePlus has tried to deliver on that customer request. Antarctica is able to take "an extravagant amount of information and map it" with visual indicators such as size, color and shape, Mr. Farber says, so a client can, for example, quickly see what's been paid to noncontract vendors in the past quarter."
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