empowers users to create interactive, actionable mashups of data and services focused on solving real business needs. It offers a robust styling engine, and GUI tools to build applications and manage data, and it leverages key SharePoint functionality such as Excel Services, Enterprise Search, the Business Data Catalog, Site Templates, InfoPath Forms, Workflow, and security. VFS brings SharePoint libraries and lists together with geospatial data from existing enterprise data stores (such as SQL Server, Oracle and ArcSDE), Web services, and information feeds. The result is a holistic view of complementary information, all within context-rich canvases like Bing Maps, timelines, and business intelligence widgets.



App Hub is both a directory of existing Visual Fusion apps and the launch point for creating new apps in minutes. Learn More



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



Visual Fusion can connect to many of the most popular data sources (SQL Server, Oracle, etc.) natively, and to just about anything else via the SDK. Visual Fusion also supports the most popular standards and formats that have emerged for the Web and GIS. Learn More



The Visual Fusion Style Rules Engine gives developers the flexibility to represent disparate data in ways that promote understanding for the end user. For example, using range styling you can display varying icons or colorization based on underlying numerical values in your data. Similarly, match styling varies data representation based on a categorical value. There are dozens of options available out of the box, and the Visual Fusion SDK makes it possible to create custom style rules to fit unique organizational needs.



Use heat maps, clustering, vector buffering, polygon generalization, datum transformation and spatial query tools for superior performance and in-depth analysis. Each operation affords many different options and customizations.



A Visual Fusion application is deployed as a single Silverlight Web Part or, alternatively, as multiple Flash Web Parts. In either mode, other Web Parts can be integrated easily with Visual Fusion through the product's JavaScript API.



Visual Fusion extends and geospatially enables SharePoint Lists and Libraries to form templates for differnt kinds of content. Excel files, other documents, images, photos from mobile devices, raw geospatial data files, links to Web feeds, InfoPath Forms, and calendars are just some of the content that can be made available for inclusion in Visual Fusion applications. SharePoint Lists also make a great storage option for tabular data to be included in Visual Fusion apps.



Visual Fusion Enterprise Search allows the user to search all content within the Visual Fusion universe. SharePoint content, databases, and web feeds can all be crawled, indexed, and quickly searched. Results can be surfaced in multiple ways. The Visual Fusion Search Experience is a dedicated SharePoint page which displays search results in a rich stand-alone context. Application creators can also set up Search results as feeds in their applications, and end users can surface search results in any Visual Fusion application as an ad hoc request from the Feed Control input area.



Visual Fusion leverages SharePoint and Active Directory security to include or exclude specific groups for each data feed. An application can be created once, but present different views to each set of users based on login credentials, saving important developer time and insuring that only the appropriate eyes are viewing a particular data source.



Custom icons are easily imported into Visual Fusion via a specified SharePoint Image Library. Once an image is uploaded into this Library, it is immediately available for the application developer to use, through Composer and in XML configuration files.



Localize your Visual Fusion application to fit a non-English speaking audience; guidance is supplied with Visual Fusion.



Visual Fusion can be easily extended and customized to fit unique business requirements. The SDK includes front end and back end C# APIs, a JavaScript API for Web Part communication, a REST API, and more. Learn More