AJAX, a development technique for creating interactive Web applications, enhances the Web user's experience by generating images more quickly because it eliminates the need to constantly refresh Web pages every time a user makes a change. Extended AJAX coverage in JViews 8 means more real-time delivery of information and allows developers to leverage AJAX for process and network diagrams and Gantt charts, giving end users the ability to edit and collaborate using a Web browser. Also new is AJAX editing capabilities for Internet maps, allowing for fast refreshes when scrolling due to the use of tiling and caching, which allows only new portions of unviewed map data to download on refresh versus the entire map.

With this new release of ILOG JViews, ILOG reinforces its commitment to providing one-stop shopping for high-end graphics and visualization tools, as its suite of products addresses all aspects of advanced visualization:

* Key visual components are available: Diagrams, BPM, Dashboards, Maps, Charts, Gantt charts, Automatic Layout. * All kinds of deployment techniques are available, including: desktop clients, AJAX-enhanced web applications, Eclipse RCP, and Portals.

Through its Java, .NET and C++ graphics libraries and components, ILOG provides the industry's most comprehensive set of graphics tools for creating sophisticated, interactive user displays. ILOG's graphics products enhance decision making speed and ability by making vast quantities of complex data more comprehensible and manageable for users. With each of ILOG's visualization products, developers can save 50 to 80 percent of development time in creating displays.