Highsoft

Highsoft
Private
Industry Data visualization
Founded 2009
Founder Torstein Hønsi
Headquarters Vik, Norway
Area served
 Worldwide
Website www.highcharts.com

Highsoft is the company behind the data visualization tools[1][2] Highcharts, Highstock, and Highmaps. The products are developed in Javascript and are tools to provide interactive charts and diagrams for web and mobile projects. Highsoft also offers an online charting tool known as Highcharts Cloud. The software of Highsoft is offered as source-available on GitHub, free for personal use.[3] For commercial use commercial licenses are offered.[4] Out of the fortune 100 global list of the greatest companies in the world, 68 hold a software license with one or more of highsoft products.

History

The idea behind Highsoft started[5] when Torstein was looking for a charting tool to publish his snow depth measurements from Vikjafjellet (Norway) online. Torstein founded Highsoft in 2009, to provide charting tools based on JavaScript, which could work in most web browsers, without the use of browser plugins. Today, the company is most known for its core product, Highcharts.

Products and technologies

Highsoft provides four products:[6] Highcharts, Highstock, Highmaps and Highcharts Cloud.

Highcharts

Highcharts was released in 2009, and is based on native browser technologies. Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering a way of adding interactive charts to web sites, web and mobile applications.

Highstock

Highstock was released in October 2011, and is mostly used in the financial and banking industry sector.[7][8][9]

Highmaps

Highmaps is a Highsoft product for geo maps (mainly choropleth maps). Highmaps also supports different features such as lines (roads, rivers etc.) and points (cities, points of interest) and more. Highmaps can be used in two different ways, either as a standalone JavaScript file, or as a plugin for Highcharts.

Highcharts cloud

Highcharts Cloud is an online charting tool (online graph maker) and chart hosting service, which is a SaaS version of Highcharts.

Highcharts community

Uservoice, Stack overflow and GitHub are used by Highsoft to interact with its users, along with an Internet forum.

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://www.fastcolabs.com/3030447/how-highcharts-won-the-enterprise-data-viz-market
  2. ↑ http://www.nrk.no/sognogfjordane/no-er-arets-grunder-2012-kara-1.8381034
  3. ↑ license.txt on github.com
  4. ↑ highcharts.html on shop.highsoft.com
  5. ↑ http://blog.socialintent.com/2011/05/highcharts-software-entrepreneurship-in-the-fjords/
  6. ↑ http://www.binpress.com/blog/2014/09/02/binpress-podcast-episode-9-torstein-honsi-highsoft/
  7. ↑ http://www.home.barclays/barclays-investor-relations/share-price-and-dividends.html
  8. ↑ http://www.nasdaq.com/as/symbol/cdtx/ownership-summary
  9. ↑ http://investor.visa.com/stock-information/quote-chart/
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