Composer is a GUI for adding data sources to your Visual Fusion applications and styling them to promote insight for the app users.



Composer automatically discovers all content connected to Visual Fusion, be it in SharePoint, a database like SQL Server, or Web feeds from the cloud. Application creators can then choose which data sources they want to use in each app, arrange them in a meaningful hierarchy, and style each one individually to benefit the application end users.



Composer gives numerous basic and advanced styling options to application creators. A rich palette of icons and colors give users tremendous flexibility in representing data, and users can even upload their own icons for rapid inclusion in the app. Some of the advanced styling options include assigning colors or icons to different ranges of data values, and surrounding points or lines with visual buffer zones whose size is based on underlying data values. Heat maps can be created with a wide choice of themes and the ability to vary intensity based on underlying values. Inclusion in the timeline viewer, clustering large data sets at higher zoom levels, using radio buttons or check boxes for groups of feeds, and many other styling options are available as well.


The bottom line is that anyone in an organization can use this no-code tool to quickly build compelling, valuable mashups of organizational, departmental, and cloud-based content. Respond quickly to a need with a situational app, or construct a long-lived mission critical system; both are possible with Visual Fusion.