IDV Solutions

IDV Solutions was founded in 2004 as a privately held software technology firm that specializes in visual composite applications for location and business intelligence. The headquarters for IDV Solutions is Lansing, Michigan.

IDV Solutions' business involves the development of visual composite application software, with customers including the Global 2000 and government organizations at all levels.

Products
IDV Solutions uses the name Visual Fusion Suite to refer to its collection of .NET Framework products. These products form a development platform to create highly visual composite applications and mashups.

Visual Fusion Server
Visual Fusion Server (VFS) is a composite application server-side product enabling organizations to integrate data into an interactive, Web-based environment. VFS enables organizations of all sizes within a broad range of industries to bring location intelligence to their information assets.

VFS is integrated with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 by tying directly into SharePoint Lists and Libraries. VFS geocodes List and Library content as well as Excel spreadsheet data with latitude and longitude to enable the item(s) to be pinpointed on a map.

VFS has native connectors for many data sources and file types including Microsoft SQL Server 2008/2005/2000, Microsoft SQL Data Services, Microsoft Virtual Earth/MapPoint Web services, SharePoint Lists & Libraries, SharePoint's Business Data Catalog, Oracle 11g/10g, ESRI ArcSDE 9.3/9.2, Excel files, KML files, GeoRSS files, and Shapefiles. With the VFS SDK custom connectors can be built for any data source that has a SOAP (protocol) interface.

Visual Fusion Composer is a GUI tool within VFS used to assemble and style the various data layers made available by the connectors. With this tool, SharePoint savvy users can create visual composite applications and easily bring location intelligence into their workgroup.

Visual Fusion Experience
Visual Fusion Experience (VFX) is a set of rich user interface components that can be deployed as SharePoint Web Parts or as standard Flash Web page components. VFX makes use of a map as the primary metaphor for interacting with, exploring, and viewing business information.

VFX encourages user contribution by allowing users to draw and save shapes on the basemap, to search SharePoint content and display the results on the map, and to bring in ad hoc data layers from KML, WMS, and GeoRSS feeds.

Visual Fusion Tile Server
Visual Fusion Tile Server offers enhanced functionality and capabilities for Web-based mapping within a Microsoft technology stack. Visual Fusion Tile Server takes advantage of advances in map tiling and caching, providing a way for organizations to serve up imagery and other Web Map Services (WMS) with greater speed and performance. It serves up map tiles compatible with Virtual Earth 2D and 3D map controls, and also caches the tiles, enabling map access while offline or in a disconnected environment.

SpatialWiki
SpatialWiki is a collaborative product for creating, storing, and sharing geographic information using a rich internet application. It is built on Mircosoft Silverlight 2.0 and Virtual Earth and is deployable within SharePoint or in the cloud via SQL Data Services. SpatialWiki users can draw and save custom geospatial shapes (points, lines, and areas) on Virtual Earth, search, view, and edit this shared geography, and also export it as a KML file or SQL Server 2008 script.