Future Point Systems is the market leader in Visual Information System (VIS) solutions. The company provides software for visually managing, understanding, and deriving new knowledge from massive quantities of heterogeneous and complexly related information.

Future Point’s award winning Starlight™ software is a comprehensive visual analytics platform that tames information overload and enables users to extract new value from information of all kinds. Starlight is software for sensemaking, the process of creating situational awareness and understanding in situations of high complexity or uncertainty in order to make decisions. Starlight automatically organizes and summarizes large collections of information and then presents the results in easily interpretable graphical formats.

Future Point’s Starlight Visual Information System™, consisting of the Starlight Server and Starlight Client visual analytics application, provides advanced information management and analysis capabilities. Starlight’s XML Engineering Environment™ enables the rapid development of custom information retrieval and processing solutions. Together, these components form a complete visual analytics solution that couples information visualization technologies with advanced information preprocessing and storage and retrieval capabilities.

Future Point Systems is utilizing the dtSearch technology in the Starlight Server to help perform the critical function of indexing XML data. Future Point Systems has supplemented the dtSearch text index, which processes character string and free text data, with proprietary numeric and temporal indexes to deploy an extremely robust XML indexing engine.

“Future Point Systems selected dtSearch for its speed, reliability, scalability, and flexible runtime terms.” John Risch, CTO of Future Point Systems, explains: “dtSearch provides the core search capabilities used in our Starlight visual analytics product. The coupling of visual knowledge discovery tools with dtSearch’s fast indexing and retrieval capabilities provide our users with an unprecedented ability to manage and understand extremely large quantities of complex information.”

Founded in 2006 in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), Future Point Systems is headquartered in Mountain View, CA, with offices in Washington, Oregon and Washington DC.

For more information please visit the Future Point Systems website at www.futurepointsystems.com. You can also join the Future Point Systems User Forum discussion boards to learn about the latest developments with the Starlight platform.