Tom Sawyer Software Announces Release of Perspectives 13.2: Enhanced Developer Experience and Smarter Visualization

BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, USA, February 26, 2025—Tom Sawyer Software, the leader in graph and data visualization and analysis technology announces the release of Tom Sawyer Perspectives 13.2. This new release includes powerful enhancements designed to make development easier and graph visualization more intuitive.

This update focuses on streamlining integration, improving user control, and enhancing visual clarity—ensuring a smoother experience for both developers and end users and making our world-renowned graph layout even better.

“Perspectives 13.2 is a major leap forward in our graph visualization capabilities," said Brendan Madden, Chief Executive Officer at Tom Sawyer Software. "It is a culmination of several years of development work to improve our world-renowned hierarchical layout with major reductions in edge crossings. Crossings are reduced by 30% to 50% in many complex nested drawings. We also continue to advance our platform to simplify the development of modern, custom applications with our enhanced modern web client frameworks and Web Components. This release affirms our continued commitment to delivering an enterprise grade platform that supports our customers' critical objectives.”

Key benefits of Tom Sawyer Perspectives 13.2 include:

The best graph layout just got better: Hierarchical drawings now deliver clearer, more readable visualizations for complex data structures, and improved layout algorithms reduce edge crossings 30-50% on average in polyline and orthogonal edge routing making it easier to interpret relationships and dependencies in your data. These refinements ensure cleaner, more structured diagrams helping users quickly uncover insights and navigate intricate networks with ease.

Enhanced modern web client framework makes it easier for developers to integrate and build modern applications in React, Angular, and HTML: Key updates include support for invokable dialogs, new React-based timeline and chart views allowing seamless integration with other view types and providing support of web components, and enhanced support for generating React applications from your project with custom extensions. These improvements enhance usability, flexibility, and overall product quality.

Data exploration with Cypher and Gremlin queries is now more flexible and developer integration easier: End users can now enter their own Cypher or Gremlin queries directly, enabling more powerful and customized graph analysis. For developers, adding this capability is now seamless—with a built-in, ready-to-use dialog that requires no custom code. This update empowers users with greater control over their queries while significantly reducing development effort.

Perspectives Web Components provides developers the freedom to build Perspectives applications using the web framework of their choice: Additional properties are added to our Web Components allowing more customizability. A detailed tutorial guides developers through integrating Perspectives Web Components in Angular, providing a seamless alternative to React and making it easier than ever to adapt Perspectives to your preferred development environment for greater flexibility and smoother integration. 

With our continued goal of providing a seamless development experience and unrivaled graph visualization, this release helps solidify our position as a market leader.

To learn more about Tom Sawyer Perspectives 13.2 and its advanced capabilities watch this video or request a live demo or free trial today.

About Tom Sawyer Software
Tom Sawyer Software is the leading provider of software and services that enable organizations to build highly scalable and flexible graph and data visualization and analysis applications. These applications are used to discover hidden patterns, complex relationships, and key trends in large and diverse datasets. Tom Sawyer Software serves clients with needs in link analysis; network topology; architectures and models; schematics and maps; and dependencies, flows, and processes. We help clients federate and integrate their data from multiple sources and build the graph and data visualization applications that are critical to analyzing and gaining insight into their data.