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IBM ILOG Elixir V2.5

Data visualization components for Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR

By ILOG, now an IBM company

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IBM® ILOG® Elixir V2.5 provides 11 graphical data-display components for custom Adobe® Flex® 3 and Adobe AIR® rich Internet application (RIA) development. IBM ILOG Elixir helps turn raw data into clear, actionable information through a highly graphical and interactive user experience. Learn more about using the IBM ILOG Elixir components through tutorials, demos, and sample code.

For a productive design-time experience, IBM ILOG Elixir is tightly integrated with Adobe Flex Builder™ 3 software. Using a component of IBM ILOG Elixir is easy; just drag and drop it into place and set its properties from within your Flex Builder development environment.

Already own ILOG Elixir V1?

IBM ILOG Elixir V2.5 adds powerful new components that will help your users understand data more quickly while potentially saving you weeks and months of development time. New components include: Calendar, Gantt Task charts, Heatmaps, and OLAP and Pivot charts.

IBM ILOG Elixir V2.5 component descriptions

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Calendar

Easily create custom and shared planning applications with the powerful IBM ILOG Elixir calendar component. Easily display multiple planning at once together with advance recurrence management.

 

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3D charts

IBM ILOG Elixir comes with a full range of 3D charts that parallel the Adobe 2D charts. Upgrading to the third dimension and creating more appealing dashboards and custom applications has never been so easy.

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Organization charts

Advanced employee organization charts are easy to create with IBM ILOG Elixir. Quickly navigate through peers and management relationships with stunning animations.

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Vector maps

IBM ILOG Elixir makes it easy to add intuitive map displays to your developments. Reuse one of the provided maps or create custom ones from standard maps you found or purchased. You easily get map areas colored to represent your specific data and overlaid with any Flex object, such as charts and labels.

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Gauges and dials

Gauges and dials are fully interactive and designed to be connected to real-time data sources. Developers can use them as they are, customize them, or easily create new ones with the powerful and open APIs.

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Gantt Resource charts

Create custom planning display for resources (for example, employees, trucks, and factories). Get planned activities for numerous resources and long periods of time, reassign tasks, and manipulate time series data and schedules.

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Gantt Task charts

Easily create custom project management displays. See what resource performs which task and when, reassign tasks, and manipulate time series data and schedules.

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Heatmaps

Heatmaps help you display how your data is spread over geographies or a web page, for instance. Manipulate either x/y or lat/lon and see your data by density or by value.

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OLAP and Pivot charts

Replace OLAP grids with highly dynamic charts for improved insight and analysis in your custom data.

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Radar charts

Enrich your dashboards with radar charts to display in a compact way and compare a variety of key performance indicators (KPIs) with multiple data point tool tips.

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Treemaps

Treemaps are innovative charts for visually detecting trends and outliers in large data sets. Often referred to as graphical pivot tables, treemaps come with built-in clustering and drill-down.

FAQ

What is IBM ILOG Elixir V2.5?

This release reflects the latest software release of ILOG Elixir by IBM. There are minor feature additions and enhancements to existing data visualization components, plus a number of bug fixes. Full details can be found in the release notes.

Why has ILOG Elixir been renamed IBM ILOG Elixir?

IBM acquired ILOG in December 2008. Although V2 was released under the ILOG brand, IBM has since decided to rebrand ILOG Elixir V2.5 as an IBM product.

I already purchased ILOG Elixir V2. Can I get a free upgrade to IBM ILOG Elixir V2.5?

Yes. If you are an existing V2 customer, Adobe will be e-mailing you instructions on how to download V2.5. If you are not contacted by Adobe, you should contact Adobe Customer Service to request the upgrade.

Do I need a new serial number to unlock IBM ILOG Elixir V2.5?

No. You can use your existing V2 serial number to activate V2.5.

What are the new features/enhancements included in IBM ILOG Elixir V2.5?

This release provides the following enhancements:

  1. The Calendar component has been updated as follows:
    • A user can now click or double-click on a Calendar row or column header with graphic feedback.
    • The Calendar now displays an indicator when some events are not visible when outside of the displayed day period.
    • The Calendar top grid can now be hidden.
    • You can now easily customize Calendar item renderers, including drillDownItemRenderer.
    • You can now specify the height in pixels of the cell of the calendar.
    • Calendar sortData functionality is now customizable.
  2. Task and Resource chart cursors can now also be customized.
  3. You can now customize cursors used during mouse interactions.

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