Tom Sawyer Software is a software company that provides products used to build data visualization

Data visualization

Data visualization is the study of the visual representation of data, meaning "information that has been abstracted in some schematic form, including attributes or variables for the units of information"....

 and social network analysis applications. Organizations use these applications to better understand relationships, trends, and patterns in their complex data sets to identify emerging opportunities and threats. Tom Sawyer Software products are used by enterprise and government organizations, and software vendors in Telecommunications, Financial Services

Financial services

Financial services refer to services provided by the finance industry. The finance industry encompasses a broad range of organizations that deal with the management of money. Among these organizations are credit unions, banks, credit card companies, insurance companies, consumer finance companies,...

, Defense and Intelligence, Life Sciences

Life sciences

The life sciences comprise the fields of science that involve the scientific study of living organisms, like plants, animals, and human beings. While biology remains the centerpiece of the life sciences, technological advances in molecular biology and biotechnology have led to a burgeoning of...

, and Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Manufacturing is the use of machines, tools and labor to produce goods for use or sale. The term may refer to a range of human activity, from handicraft to high tech, but is most commonly applied to industrial production, in which raw materials are transformed into finished goods on a large scale...

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The company was founded in 1992, and is headquartered in Oakland, California, with development facilities throughout Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

, Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

, and North America

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

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Awards

Tom Sawyer Software won the following awards:

• U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Grant Winner, "Graph Visualization Technology" Advanced Technology Program (ATP) grant (95-09) Component Based Software Technology Development, 1995.
• U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Grant Finalist, "Graph Analysis Technology" Advanced Technology Program (ATP) grant (00-09) Component Based Software Technology Development, 2000.
• 2003 Crossroads A-List Awards, Winner, Tom Sawyer Visualization, Java Edition, formerly known as the Graph Editor Toolkit for Java, "Java Graph Visualization for Life Sciences Applications", 2003.
• 2011 Red Herring 100 North America Award, Finalist.
• Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Project Grant Winner, "Visual Interaction Methods for Clustered Graphs" (11-13), 2011.