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yFiles is the industry-leading software library for diagramming. For over 20 years, companies and institutions have been using this SDK todepict, edit, and analyze their connected data.

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The benefits of diagramming

Data visualization — creating graphs or diagrams — is a key technique for analyzing large amounts of information and making data-driven decisions. In our Big Data world, this has become even more crucial.
Understanding trends, patterns, and outliers is essential to successfully navigating digital transformation in Industry 4.0.

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Interactive

Experience the direct impact of data in real time. Work with your dataset directly and see how the changes affect certain aspects of the graph. This method offers valuable insights into historical trends, present conditions, and improves future projections.

Adjustable

Multiple points of view broaden the horizon. Change your perspective with just one click: get an overview or explore a specific area in detail. Graph visualization places endless possibilities at your fingertips.

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Informative

Tap into a human talent: pattern recognition. Graph visualization helps you to recognize patterns and trends at a glance. What’s more, graph analysis algorithms can be used to visualize key information within the data.

Clear & Easy

People are very visual. Seeing data as graphs helps you absorb the information faster, explore it intuitively, and work with it more easily. Visualization can help monitor large networks and improve all types of workflows.

What is a diagramming SDK?

If you want to assemble a car, you need parts, tools, and instructions.
Our diagramming SDK (“software development kit”) or diagramming library offers all of this for creating interactive diagrams and visualizations. It’s an easy, flexible way to visualize data without having to reinvent the wheel - or, in this case, the nodes and edges.

The yFiles SDK goes even further and organizes your data into a beautiful graph layout of your choice, with just one click. That’s why we say our SDK also stands for “superior diagramming kit”!

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From southern Germany to Silicon Valley

Numerous world-renowned companies, research institutes, and universities rely on the expertise of yWorks.

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The world of yFiles

Use cases for our diagramming SDK

The possible uses of yFiles are as versatile as its functions.
Maybe you want to depict company workflows? Incorporate graphs into a software product you intend to sell? Or evaluate Big Data using automatic graph analysis? yFiles supports all this, and more.

Here, you’ll find an overview of use cases, live demos, and applications.
But remember, every project is unique. We can help you realize yours - just get in touch!

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UML Class DiagramGantt Chart

MindmapGraph EditorData Analysis

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Tree LayoutDecision Tree

Automatic LayoutLarge Graph Aggregation

FlowchartNetwork Monitoring

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BimlFlex

BimlFlex by Varigence is a collection of templates, metadata definitions, and tooling that enables you to build an end - to - end data solution without ever writing a single line of code.

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qbilon

qbilon is a graph analytics and automation platform that merges all IT-relevant data into an overview picture. Thus, individual evaluation and optimization are enabled resulting in significantly less workload, lower costs and increased security.

yFiles Graphs for Jupyter

This powerful extension for JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook makes it easy to load and visualize structures from any Python graph package. It allows to gain valuable insights and present network data in a clear and visually-appealing way.

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Privacy Lens

trust-hub’s Privacy Lens toolkit, offered as SaaS to enterprises, lets customers monitor how personal data is processed, used, and stored: at every level of their organization as well as within their “data supply chain”. Privacy Lens makes it easy to pinpoint systems or processes that are creating compliance risk.

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Data Explorer for Neo4j

The Data Explorer for Neo4j unlocks the potential of a Neo4j database using the advanced graph visualization techniques provided by yFiles. Queried data is displayed in clearly arranged diagrams and can be styled with an interactive designer. Users can navigate and analyze the diagram, as well as expand the graph by loading connected elements from the database with many interactive gestures.

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Pandora Intelligence

Big Data is vast and continually expanding. But accessing huge amounts of data does not automatically produce clear insights. The challenge is analyzing the information effectively and efficiently. Mining data for complex, and often hidden, information is key for many companies seeking to improve public safety or simply increase their market share.

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App Generator

The yFiles App Generator is a tool for the rapid creation of diagram and graph visualization apps. It enables the extraction, transformation, loading, and visualization of data using no-code techniques. Most of the visualization, editing, and layout features in the App Generator are readily available with yFiles.

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ArenaCore

A forward-thinking startup has created an intuitive platform to support ICT providers, especially public clouds. With ArenaCore, companies can design, order, and implement components for their overall infrastructure, and plan the placement of service elements within a service mesh. All changes are clearly tracked. Team members can be included in critical workflow steps at the appropriate time, enabling very efficient teamwork and minimizing errors. ArenaCore also makes it easy to integrate current and future technologies into multi-vendor design environments.

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Connect our kids

Connect Our Kids uses diagrams to assist social workers in finding permanent homes for foster children. Their free tool, Family Connections, streamlines the process by allowing social workers to create and continuously edit a support map for each child. A support map not only shows the connection tree for every child, it also serves as an automatic contact information discovery, and it helps social workers to easily document their contact with members of the network.

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Marvel graph

In this visualization of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its characters, we’ve arranged all movies according to their in-universe timeline. Characters are shown as edges that pass through the movies they appear in. The thickness of edges models the relative screen time of characters within a movie. The overall layout is automatically computed based on the hierarchical layout style in yFiles.

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Appollo Systems

Using yFiles, Apollo Systems can easily visualize models for business analysis and low-code application development with versatile layout and visualization algorithms.

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Langner, Inc.

It’s not every day that a leading security consultancy transforms into a software vendor. With over 30 years of experience, Langner, Inc. can be considered an international software startup Originally based in Delaware, the company provided consulting services aimed at mitigating cyber risk. However, over time, they noticed that every client, regardless of size, lacked a fundamental element for a solid risk assessment: an inventory of assets.

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DbVisualizer

DbVis Software relies on yFiles viewer and layout technology for arranging and presenting database schemas in its DbVisualizer tool.

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BimlFlex

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qbilon

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yFiles Graphs for Jupyter

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Privacy Lens

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Data Explorer for Neo4j

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Pandora Intelligence

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App Generator

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ArenaCore

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Connect our kids

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Marvel graph

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Appollo Systems

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Langner, Inc.

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DbVisualizer

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Features & flexibility

yFiles is a powerful and adaptable diagram library.

Choose which parts and functions you need, and create your ideal solution for your specific use case.

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Platforms & integration

yFiles is available in five variants: HTML, Java, JavaFX, WinForms , and WPF.
Thanks to similar APIs across the different technologies, it’s easy to migrate between yFiles products to cover new platforms. So there’s no need to start from scratch when technologies change (and they will)!

yFiles works frictionless with all existing technologies and infrastructures, and can be optimally integrated into any system.

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Everything is coming together quickly. I love how extensible this product is.Mark Kowal, Karmatic Consulting

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Purchasing a yFiles license gives you access to extensive, sophisticated resources for working with our SDK. If you need further support, we are happy to provide expert services, right from the source.

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