Case Study: Successful Deployment of Industry-University Collaborative Visual Analytics Research

Successful joint industry-university projects are as rewarding as they are rare. Even more rare is the effective transfer of technology from an academic research laboratory to an industrial application. Having the transfer take less than 3 years is rarest of all. This paper describes a case study where a successful joint industry-university project resulted in a considerable reduction in the time to move a new form of technology - Visual Analytics - from university laboratories into multiple industrial uses. Significant events and lessons learned along the way are described from both an industrial and an academic perspective.