corporation type public industry computer software founded stockholm sweden 1999 founder willem de geer markus skyttner ludvig sandman sam giertz headquarters stockholm sweden number of locations 6 stockholm london new york boston san francisco chicago area served north america europe asia products panopticon 6 enterprise application with embed option panopticon developer sdk for java . net & microsoft wpf number of employees 200 website datawatch.com panopticon software now known as datawatch designer was a multi national data visualization software company specializing in monitoring and analysis of real time data . the firm was headquartered in stockholm sweden with additional offices in new york city london boston san francisco and chicago . it partnered with several large systems integrators and infrastructure software companies including sap thomson reuters kx systems and one market data onetick . the company s name is derived from the greek pan for all optic for sight . the company name is derived from the word panopticon which is an architectural concept originally intended to facilitate surveillance of prisons . in august 2013 panopticon was acquired by datawatch corporation . 1 panopticon software was a key player in the data visualization sector along with for example qliktech tableau software and tibco software . 2 its swedish origins are shared with gapminder qliktech and spotfire making sweden a centre for information visualization research and development . it historically specialised in selling treemapping and heatmap visualisation software and development tools to clients within the financial services and telecommunications industries . it uses a variety of other visual analysis tools in its products including scatter plots dot plots pie charts line graphs and bullet graph visualizations . the company s products are sometimes deployed as executive dashboards that allow managers to interact explore monitor and analyze rapidly changing and or large data sets . panopticon tools are also often embedded in other enterprise applications using the company s software development kit which is available for java microsoft . net and the windows presentation foundation . the panopticon products are optimized for use with real time data message buses complex event processing engines relational databases and column oriented databases . 3 4 and is a regular exhibitor at financial industry events such as securities industry and financial markets association and sia clarification needed . 5 6 7 contents 1 history 2 pre attentive processing 3 technology overview 4 product overview 5 awards 6 joint ventures and strategic alliances 7 external links 8 references history edit the company was founded in 1999 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the emerging markets brokerage brunswick direct before being spun off as a separate entity in 2002 . 8 it later was acquired by the uk based hamsard group hamsard is now known as cantono plc and became a subsidiary of the group . 9 in march 2007 its competitor spotfire undertook negotiations with hamsard group to take full ownership of panopticon . 10 this potential deal was not completed 11 spotfire pulling out of negotiations and itself subsequently being purchased by tibco . 12 in may 2007 the company was sold back to its founders as part of a management buyout . 13 in december 2007 the company elected a new board including carl palmstierna a former partner with goldman sachs and john wattin previously chairman of mysql ab . 14 in december 2007 the company appointed peter simpson as senior vice president of research and development . peter had previously held senior positions with instant information and hsbc . 15 in may 2009 the company appointed chris elsmore as svp partners and channels worldwide . chris had previously been in charge of sap business object s partner program . 16 in september 2010 michael lelion joined panopticon as svp international sales . michael had previously help positions with platinum technology fujitsu icl comshare now part of geac and datamonitor . 17 in may 2011 the company announced that thomson reuters is embedding panopticon visualizations into its quant trader platform to allow traders and quantitative researchers to analyze and monitor any real time or historical data series available via thomson reuters velocity analytics . 18 in february 2012 the company announced the release of a real time data connector for oracle cep ; this will allow oracle customers to utilize panopticon s interactive dashboards as the user interface for their cep enabled analytical solutions . 19 in march 2012 the company announced that omaha foreign exchange had deployed panopticon visual data analysis software within its new facilities to analyze risk liquidity and other key performance factors . 20 in april 2012 the company announced that former qliktech ceo m ns hultman and enterprise software veteran charles kane had joined panopticon s advisory board . 21 in april 2012 the company announced that blackrock had purchased panopticon for an enterprise level deployment supported visual analysis of risk and performance data . 22 in may 2012 the company announced that qliktech had partnered with panopticon to enable qliktech clients to embed panopticon data visualizations into their qlikview dashboards . panopticon supports qlikview desktop web and mobile interactive dashboards and allows users to filter and interact directly with real time data . 23 in june 2012 the company announced that sap was utilizing its panopticon data visualization tools as the front end for real time deployments of the sap hana in memory appliance . 24 in june 2012 the company announced the release of an html5 front end for its enterprise data visualization applications . the new html5 thin client provides a complete range of interactive filtering capabilities for analytical dashboards on mobile devices including apple ipads android tablets and smartphones . 25 in august 2012 the company announced that campbell & company an asset manager with over 3 billion under management had implemented its advanced data visualization tools as part of a onetick deployment . campbell & co. decided it needed a better way to store distribute and visualize its data so it turned to onemarketdata and panopticon for the solution . 26 in october 2012 the company announced the release of panopticon 6 which incorporated all the functionality of its previous ex and rapid development kit products into a single offering . as in previous generations panopticon 6 incorporates the ability to visualize data from true real time streaming sources including message queues cep engines and tick databases as well as federate data from multiple sources . the system s architecture enables client organizations to leverage the powerful data aggregation capabilities of cep engines and tick databases . 27 in january 2013 the company announced the release of panopticon 6.1.1 which supports new time series data visualizations enhanced html5 functionality and new data connectors . 28 in january 2013 the company announced record results for the previous year with 112 % books growth . 29 in february 2013 the company announced that nadeem chowdhry qliktech s former sales director of financial services had joined panopticon . 30 in april 2013 panopticon was selected for inclusion in ubm tech channel s crn 2013 big data 100 list . the big data 100 recognizes innovative technology vendors that help businesses manage big data the rapidly increasing volume variety and velocity of information being generated today . the list covers three categories business analytics data management infrastructure and services . the big data 100 includes many established vendors as well as startups and specialized suppliers of niche products that help businesses address big data needs . 31 in april 2013 panopticon was named a gartner cool vendor in the cool vendors for in memory computing 2013 report by gartner inc. the april 23 2013 report was co authored by roy schulte roxane edjlali et al. this is the first year that gartner has called out in memory computing specifically as a subject for one of its cool vendor reports . 32 in june 2013 panopticon announced that it had released panopticon 6.2.2 the latest version of its popular data visualization software suite . as with previous releases panopticon 6.2.2 supports windows and java it environments for enterprise deployment and also allows clients to publish interactive html5 dashboards to desktop and mobile devices and to embed panopticon dashboards into their own applications . 33 in june 2013 panopticon announced that tony evans had joined the company in the newly created role of chief operating officer . evans will head the growing panopticon sales and marketing group and work directly and will be part of the company s executive management team . evans will be based in the company s expanded new york office . 34 in august 2013 datawatch corporation nasdaq cm dwch announced that it had completed its acquisition of panopticon software ab . 35 pre attentive processing edit the visualizations that panopticon offers within its products attempt to utilize the human capacity for visual search and pre attentive processing to enhance comprehension of large multi element datasets in less than 250 milliseconds . 36 pre attentive processing is a term from the area of human cognitive psychology and refers to the ability of the low level human visual system to rapidly identify certain basic visual properties . examples of visual features that can be detected in this way include hue intensity enclosure orientation size and motion . 37 38 technology overview edit panopticon s technology relies on in memory olap cubes which are displayed through a series of visualizations including treemaps . this allows the user to load data select variables and hierarchical structures and navigate through the resultant visualization filtering zooming and drilling sometimes called slicing and dicing to identify outliers correlations and trends . its streaming olap implementation takes an in memory olap cube and allows data to be streamed through it . this combination makes the company s products attractive to industry verticals that require live streaming data such as financial market data utility grid monitoring and telecommunications network traffic analysis . this is very different than the vast majority of olap implementations in which cubes are rebuilt periodically for new batches of data . 39 40 this support for streaming data with its products has allowed financial institutions such as jpmorgan chase 41 citigroup 42 citadel and blackrock 43 to implement the panopticon products within their real time trading and risk applications . euromoney has stated that it provides the trader community with a way of quickly digesting information . 44 product overview edit panopticon has two platform independent product lines its enterprise application which support enterprise deployments and also provides the ability to embed panopticon tools into third party applications and its sdks in java language . net framework and microsoft windows presentation foundation . panopticon enterprise application with streaming connectivity to microsoft excel sonic mq and complex event processing cep engines . 45 46 47 48 49 and with static connectivity to relational databases such as oracle ibm db2 microsoft sql server and mysql . panopticon developer . net wpf and java . all products support a number of different data visualizations including treemap 50 heatmap 51 heat matrix 52 candlestick graph 53 stack graph effectively shows treemaps across time for time series data sets 54 bar graph 55 horizon graph specialized data visualization for time series data sets in limited vertical space 56 scatter plot 57 line graphs 58 dot plots 59 bullet graph 60 awards edit its technology when adopted by financial institutions has led to recognition from financial industry periodicals such as the banker citi 61 euromoney jp morgan chase ubs . 62 joint ventures and strategic alliances edit in february 2012 the company announced the release of a real time data connector for oracle cep ; this will allow oracle customers to utilize panopticon s interactive dashboards as the user interface for their cep enabled analytical solutions . 63 in february 2012 the company announced that hotbutton a canadian firm offering a variety of data collection and aggregation technologies targeted at the needs of oil and gas producers