The Hive Group

The Hive Group
Company type	privately held
Industry	software
Founded	2000
Fate	Merged with Visual Action Software
Headquarters	Richardson, Texas
Website	hivegroup.com

The Hive Group was a software company that applied visualization technology in operational intelligence (OI), business intelligence (BI), and complex event processing (CEP) contexts.[1] The company primarily developed enterprise treemapping software used by major corporations and public agencies such as Intel Corporation, Procter & Gamble, Sun Microsystems, the United States Army, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Coast Guard.[2][3][4][5]

On January 26, 2015, The Hive Group announced that it had merged with Visual Action Software.[6]

History

The Hive Group is a privately held company founded in 2000, with headquarters in Richardson, Texas.[7] The company’s treemapping software is called Honeycomb. Ben Shneiderman, the inventor of the treemap concept, is a member of The Hive Group’s Board of Advisors.[8][9] The number of employees is believed to be fewer than 50.[10]

Industry recognition – Early adoption by the United States Marine Corps

A large quantity of information can be found, both in printed form and on the internet, detailing the Honeycomb-based USMC MERIT application. In 2003, the USMC deployed treemaps to all theaters of USMC operation.[11] This deployment has led to broad adoption of treemaps within the United States Department of Defense[12] and has received the following industry awards and recognition:

US Department of Navy eGov[13]
US Department of Defense CIO (second place, team category)[14]
Excellence.Gov - Federal CIO[15]
Government Computing News[16]
International Society of Logistics Field Award[17]
The Association for Enterprise Information Excellence in Enterprise Integration[18]
Defense Logistics 2008 Technology Implementation of the Year[19]

Public sector

The Hive Group is registered as a small business in Central Contractor Registration (CCR),[20] and in the United Nations Global Marketplace.[21]

Patents

The Hive Group holds several patents around treemapping technology (US Patents 7,027,052; 7,076,742; 7,346,858; and 7,509,591).

Board of directors and advisors

The Hive Group’s board of directors and advisors include:[22]

Bill Jesse: Chairman, Jesse Capital Management
Ben Shneiderman: inventor of treemapping; founding director, Human Computer Interaction Lab at the University of Maryland, College Park
Joseph P. Urso: CEO, Aerus LLC; Chairman, Inthinc
Pierluigi Zappacosta: Chairman, Digital Persona; Chairman, Sierra Sciences; Founder and former CEO, Logitech

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References

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[1] Treemapping Solutions for the Enterprise

[2] The Association for Operations Management

[3] Wag, Jeremy (April 28, 2006), The Wall Street Journal, Click for 2,000 Results

[4] Information Week, Treemaps Rule: Even The Marines Think They're Cool

[5] Treemaps for space-constrained visualization of hierarchies

[6] Visual Action Software and The Hive Group Announce Merger

[7] BusinessWeek, archived from the original on July 29, 2009

[8] APICS Magazine

[9] BeyeNETWORK, Discovering Business Intelligence Using Treemap Visualizations

[10] Spoke.com

[11] Marine Corps Equipment Readiness Information Tool (MERIT)

[12] APICS Magazine

[13] US Navy eGov Award

[14] DoD CIO Award (2nd Place Team Category)

[15] Excellence.Gov Federal CIO Award

[16] GCN Award

[17] SOLE Field Award

[18] AFEI Excellence in Enterprise Integration Award (PDF)

[19] DLA 2008 Technology Implementation of the Year Award

[20] CCR Small Business Search

[21] UN Global Marketplace (PDF)

[22] The Hive Group: Board of Directors