The new Java release is designed to support enterprise-level deployments of real-time visual data analytics dashboards in capital markets, telecoms, energy, retail, logistics, and other applications.

Stockholm, Sweden, May 9, 2012 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that it has released a Java Server version of its popular EX data visualization system. The new release adds compatibility with Java servers to the existing EX product suite, which up until now supported only .NET server environments.

Panopticon EX incorporates interactive Treemaps, Heatmaps, Scatter Plots, and a wide range of other data visualization tools optimized for analysis of current and historic time series data. It is built for fast deployment throughout the enterprise, at the workgroup level or even on public websites. Users can also load historical data into cubes and analyze it across adjustable time windows and time periods or perform delta analysis.

The new EX Java Server includes connectivity to OData sources like the SAP HANA database and Netweaver OData Gateway, Kx Kdb+ and Sybase IQ column-oriented databases as well as ODBC sources including DB2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle. The system can also handle CSV, SVG and Excel flat files and delimited text and XML sources through a web API or from disc.

The EX Java Server is supported on the Apache Tomcat Java application server with the Metro web service stack on Windows and Linux Red Hat / SUSE on x86.

Peter Simpson, Panopticon’s Senior Vice President of R&D, said, "We have an on-going development process for the EX suite that is driven by customer demand. We have several clients in capital markets in particular that requested a Linux version of the Server component for the EX system. The new Java Server works with the EX Designer tool in exactly the same way as our .NET Server component; this allows business users to design their own analytical dashboards based on their unique requirements and publish them to the Server with one click."

BlackRock^®, the world's largest asset manager, selected Panopticon for enterprise-wide deployment to support real-time risk, performance, profitability, and equity screening applications.

Stockholm, Sweden, April 16, 2012 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that BlackRock has purchased an enterprise license for the Panopticon suite of information visualization software, including its Developer SDK for Java and .NET, the Panopticon EX enterprise application and the Panopticon Rapid Development Kit. The purchase will allow BlackRock to deploy Panopticon Treemap, Heatmap and other interactive data visualization tools to support its internal operations and in client-facing applications.

BlackRock is a leader in investment management, risk management and advisory services for institutional and retail clients worldwide with over $3.5 trillion in assets under management. The firm offers products that span the risk spectrum, including active, enhanced and index strategies across markets and asset classes. BlackRock also offers risk management, advisory and enterprise investment system services to a broad base of institutional investors through its BlackRock Solutions^® business.

BlackRock also plans to incorporate Panopticon into its Aladdin^® Enterprise Investment System, a platform that combines sophisticated risk analytics with portfolio management, trading and operations functions. Aladdin is used internally at BlackRock and provided to over 45 external clients through BlackRock Solutions.

Jeffrey Dean, Director of High Frequency Data & Analytics at BlackRock, stated, "We fully recognize the need for real-time access to trading, risk and market data in all of our operations. Panopticon is the only data visualization vendor in the market capable of supporting our requirements, which include the ability to visualize data from CEP engines, real-time message queues and tick databases as well as traditional relational data repositories. In addition, the Developer SDK and Rapid Development Kit will allow us to embed Panopticon Treemaps and other data visualizations into our own proprietary enterprise applications; this ability to tightly integrate real-time visual data analytics into our systems was critical in selecting Panopticon."

Panopticon forms an advisory team of industry experts and high pedigree operators to assist with strategic planning, vertical expansion and indirect channel growth.

Stockholm, Sweden, April 11, 2012 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that Måns Hultman, former CEO of business intelligence software provider QlikTech, and Charles Kane, board member at Progress Software, Demandware and Carbonite, have signed on as advisors to Panopticon’s Board of Directors.

Måns Hultman was the CEO of QlikTech from May 2000 to September 2007. Under his leadership, QlikTech grew from a small, product oriented Swedish software vendor, into one of the world’s fastest growing software companies, with more than 6,000 customers across 75 countries. During the same period, revenue grew by more than 3,500%. He continued as Chairman of the Board until late 2009, leaving in early 2010, three weeks before the company filed for its IPO. The offering ultimately became the most successful NASDAQ IPO of 2010. Hultman is also a board member at Digital Route, It's Learning, Keybroker, NetAdmin and Informilo – a portfolio of rapidly growing, expansion stage technology companies.

Charles Kane brings to bear a wealth of strategic experience that will be highly influential for Panopticon as the company enters the next stage if its evolution. Kane is currently a Director at Progress Software, e-commerce leader Demandware and data backup and restoration service provider Carbonite. He is a Director, and the former President, of One Laptop Per Child, a non-profit organization that provides computing and internet access for students in the developing world. Kane previously served as a Director at Netezza Corp., before it was acquired by IBM, Applix Software, which was acquired by Cognos, and Borland Software, which was acquired by Micro Focus Corporation. Kane’s executive leadership positions included CFO and CAO at Global BPO Services, CFO at RSA Security (now EMC), CFO at at Aspen Technology, CFO at Informix Software and President and CEO at Corechange, Inc. Kane also serves as an adjunct professor of international finance at the MIT Sloan Graduate Business School of Management.

Partnership provides the unique combination of visual analysis capabilities across real-time and historical event analytics coupled with the QlikView Business Discovery platform.

Stockholm, Sweden, March 20, 2012 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced a partnership with QlikTech, a leader in Business Discovery – user-driven Business Intelligence (BI), to offer enhanced, real-time visualization capabilities for the QlikView Business Discovery platform. As a result, customers will have the tools to extract even more value from their existing QlikView implementations and stay ahead of the fast-changing requirements particularly in the areas of real-time trading, risk monitoring, and analysis.

QlikTech's powerful, accessible Business Discovery solution bridges the gap between traditional business intelligence (BI) solutions and standalone office productivity applications. Its QlikView Business Discovery platform enables intuitive user-driven analysis that can be implemented in days or weeks rather than months, years, or not at all. QlikView's in-memory associative search technology allows users to explore information freely in a Google-like experience rather than being confined to a predefined path of questions. QlikView Business Discovery works with existing BI applications and adds new capabilities: insight for everyone, zero-wait analysis, mobility, an app–like model, remixability and reassembly and a social and collaborative experience.

As a member of QlikTech's Qonnect Partner Program for Technology Partners, Panopticon supports QlikView desktop, web, and mobile interactive dashboards and allows users to filter and interact directly with real-time data. By integrating Panopticon into their systems, QlikView users can:

• Federate reference and real-time streaming data as well as conflated time series data sets; 
• Connect to virtually any relational or column-oriented database, including tick databases; 
• Connect to real-time message queues; 
• Connect to Complex Event Processing (CEP) engines; and 
• Make full use of Panopticon’s library of visualizations designed specifically to analyze financial data.

The firm selected Panopticon data visualization tools to be part of its integrated Forex trading system.

Stockholm, Sweden, March 7, 2012 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that Omaha Foreign Exchange (OFX) is implementing Panopticon’s CEP-enabled Treemaps, Heatmaps and other data visualizations in its proprietary trading systems. 

OFX’s is one of a very few currency trading managers with 100% scientific and automated market analysis and trade solutions.

Jason Coyle, Vice President of Information for Omaha Foreign Exchange, stated, "By integrating the heatmapping tools from Panopticon, we believe our ability to analyze data and risks in real time will be enhanced to new levels and our culture will continue to reward our worldwide clients and amaze our stakeholders in today's highly unpredictable markets".

HotButton will integrate Panopticon real-time monitoring and analysis dashboard technology to create a comprehensive Energy Field Data Analytics system.

Stockholm, Sweden, February 29, 2012 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that HotButton, a leading field data capture technology focused on the energy industry, have partnered to provide advanced risk and performance management applications. Panopticon data visualization capabilities enhance the HotButton platform forming a meaningful option for energy firms in industrial asset management. HotButton utilizes the Panopticon 5.9 release, delivering a valuable range of data visualizations, including Treemaps, Heatmaps and Scatter Plots, and advanced data connectors for extensive business and compliance intelligence.

HotButton's Solutions products HotLeap™ EASY and HotLeap™ PRO are in daily use within major energy producers and utilities in North America. This edition of HotButton product enhancements provides an immediate and exciting gain with asset and process intelligence via exceptional data visualization. The fusion of visual enhancements, allows energy clients to more effectively monitor and analyze production data in the field, flow data in refineries, pipeline facilities, and raw material transfer metrics. In its research, HotButton discovered that Panopticon's time series and Treemap visualizations are particularly useful in helping managers quickly identify anomalies in large amounts of energy production, flow, environmental compliance and delivery data. Panopticon’s ability to handle multiple, real-time streaming data feeds and to bring that data into analytical dashboards is critical for energy clients. HotButton clients increasingly need the most advanced operational intelligence to identify and track the performance of complex equipment operating in extreme environments.

Panopticon delivers a high-performance connector for the Oracle CEP, providing financial services customers with world class visualizations and analysis of CEP data.

Stockholm, Sweden, February 6, 2012 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that its new 5.9 release includes a new data connector for Oracle Complex Event Processing (CEP). This allows Oracle customers to utilize Panopticon’s interactive dashboards as the user interface for their CEP-enabled analytical solutions. The announcement comes on the heels of an integrated demonstration that was showcased at Oracle OpenWorld in October. At the event, Oracle and Deloitte gave conference attendees a preview of the combined system's real-time risk management analytics capabilities.

Oracle CEP, coupled with Oracle Coherence, has the ability to process multiple event streams, including market data, to detect patterns and trends in real time. It provides traders and managers with the visibility they need to capitalize on emerging opportunities or react to prospective risks. Oracle CEP helps people make decisions based on large amounts of rapidly-changing data and has applications in financial services, telecoms, utilities, retail, and energy.

Panopticon’s unique data visualization software incorporates StreamCube™, a real-time OLAP data model that allows it to support visual analysis of time-series data and real-time streaming feeds emanating from Oracle CEP. By connecting and federating data from real-time streaming data sources, traditional data warehouses and tick databases, Panopticon enables its customers to interact with all of the relevant information in their data environments. In addition, Panopticon’s data visualizations are designed to allow business users to rapidly understand and interpret the output of Oracle CEP and quickly make informed and insightful decisions.

Panopticon 5.9.2 expands the company’s support for specialized data sources used in capital markets applications and adds new filtering and analytical capabilities.

Stockholm, Sweden, January 17, 2012 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that it has released Version 5.9.2 of its popular interactive visual data analysis systems. The suite of products includes: Panopticon Developer SDK for Java and .NET; Panopticon EX enterprise application; and the Panopticon Rapid Development Kit (RDK) which combines the fast deployment capabilities of the EX product with the code-level embedding capabilities of the Developer SDK.

Banks, hedge funds, mutual funds, and other financial services firms make extensive use of the data visualization capabilities of Panopticon products to analyze risk, sensitivities, liquidity, P&L and compliance, and provide managers with informed views of market movements, trading activity and exposures. Capital markets firms often embed Panopticon capabilities into their own proprietary systems using the company’s Developer SDK or the Rapid Development Kit.

The 5.9.2 release includes native support for several of the most popular Complex Event Processing (CEP) systems and tick databases on the market, including:

• Thomson Reuters Velocity Analytics. The new connector allows clients to directly access the stored tick history through Velocity Analytics pipelines and analyze it in a visual context using Panopticon analytical dashboards. Thomson Reuters is a reseller for Panopticon products and assists clients with implementing comprehensive enterprise platforms for managing real-time and historical tick data, deriving trade and execution strategies, and generating research and analytics.
• OneTick from OneMarketData. This system combines the CEP and tick database functionality in a single system. It allows clients to run historical simulations and back-tests, develop trading and market-making strategies, build transaction-cost models, perform real-time surveillance and answer regulatory compliance requirements. Panopticon’s unique StreamCube™ OLAP data model connects directly to OneTick to provide users with effective, easy-to-interpret visualizations of the data stored in OneTick in combination with other sources.
• Oracle CEP. The Oracle CEP engine is built on industry-standards including ANSI SQL, Java, Spring DM and OSGI. It provides an open architecture for sourcing, processing, and publishing complex events throughout the enterprise and supports a visual development environment as well as standard Java-based tooling. Panopticon’s data visualizations are perfectly designed to allow people to understand and interpret the output of Oracle CEP and make informed, insightful decisions quickly.
• Sybase Event Stream Processor (ESP). This is a CEP platform for rapid development and deployment of business critical applications that analyze and act on high velocity and high volume streaming data – in real-time. Sybase ESP provides users with the ability to monitor, detect, analyze, and respond to events as they occur. As a real-time intelligence solution, Sybase ESP and Panopticon data visualization tools facilitate a faster and more immediate time to action as well as the power to make the most opportune corrective, profitable, competitive or value add decisions.

Visualization-enabled system allows traders and managers to view intraday P&L, exposures and other key parameters using interactive analytical dashboards.

Stockholm, Sweden, November 17, 2011 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that Sky Road, a leading provider of innovative cloud-based solutions to the financial services industry, has integrated Panopticon visual data analysis tools into its Swap Trader application as well as its innovative Motion application platform.

With the evolution of the swaps market structure in response to regulatory mandates, market participants require a solution that can quickly on-board and connect their swap trading desks to new execution venues in a cost effective manner. Sky Road's Swap Trader is a hosted solution blending execution, order management and portfolio management for fixed income strategies. With the integration of Panopticon’s data visualization tools, traders and managers are able to view intraday P&L, exposures and other key parameters using interactive analytical dashboards.

In addition to Swap Trader, Panopticon's data visualization tools have been integrated into Motion, Sky Road’s platform that has been built from the ground up to be cloud-enabled delivering an open, secure and scalable solution. Leveraging a core infrastructure that includes market data, analytics engines and connectivity to trading partners, firms can now have tailored applications assembled for the cloud using Sky Road’s Motion Studio. With the addition of Panopticon’s Developer SDK within Motion, users have access to interactive filtering and other tools that vastly improve analytical efficiency by reducing the amount of time required to isolate outliers and expose trends in large amounts of real-time data.

Collaboration to deliver comprehensive visual monitoring and analytics solution for tick data.

Stockholm, Sweden, October 24, 2011 – Panopticon Software, the leading provider of visual data analysis software for real-time, CEP and historical time series data, today announced that OneMarketData, LLC, a leader in tick data management and analytics is partnering with Panopticon to bring Panopticon’s real-time data visualizations to its OneTick CEP and Database (OneTick), the single solution for tick data management, analytics and complex event processing (CEP).The combination allows traders and analysts to make OneTick queries that can easily traverse massive volumes of data and spot correlations and outliers.

OneTick is optimized for high-frequency time series data, including trading and market price feeds. It captures, compresses, archives and provides uniform access to global historical data, providing a single solution for tick data management that spans both historical and real-time. Panopticon’s unique StreamCube™ OLAP data model connects directly to OneTick to provide users with effective, easy-to-interpret visualizations of the data stored in OneTick in combination with other sources. The system reduces the amount of time required for people to identify opportunities and issues allowing them to take more time to develop actionable strategies.