Piktochart is a web-based graphic design tool and
infographic
Infographics (a clipped compound of "information" and " graphics") are graphic visual representations of information, data, or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly.Doug Newsom and Jim Haynes (2004). ''Public Relations Wr ...
maker.
History
In March 2012, the first iteration of Piktochart was launched by co-founders, Goh Ai Ching and Andrea Zaggia in
Penang
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,
Malaysia
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.
By the end of the same year, Piktochart grew its user base to more than 170,000 users and received a $140,000 grant from the Malaysian government’s Cradle Fund, as well as announcing that it had raised seed funding from a number of investors.
Its userbase grew with the addition of new formats such as reports, banners and presentations which resulted in more than 3 million users in mid-2015.
As of 2018, Piktochart has been used by more than 11 million people worldwide and has grown to become a semi-distributed team of 53 team members with the office based in Penang.
Features
Whereas companies like
Lucid Software, Inc,
Trendalyzer
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,
Gliffy Gliffy is software for diagramming via an HTML5 cloud-based app. It is used to create UML diagrams, floor plans, Venn diagrams, flowcharts and various other kinds of diagrams online. Gliffy diagrams can be shared with and edited by users in real tim ...
and others had previously focused on data-representation tools that would be useful for intra-corporate collaboration as aids to speeches and presentations, and for the creation of internal communications documents, Piktochart described itself as focused on empowering users to create infographics that would be web-publisher ready and able to stand alone as a piece of multimedia content. Piktochart provides over 600 templates which users can edit, or by using more advanced functions, customize as desired.
The current version of Piktochart, released in 2017, includes a HTML publisher which allows users to create visuals that can be viewed online or embedded to a website, as well as allowing the user to include multiple interactive elements such as charts, videos, map visualization, and animated icons.
See also
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Infographics
Infographics (a clipped compound of "information" and "graphics") are graphic visual representations of information, data, or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly.Doug Newsom and Jim Haynes (2004). ''Public Relations Wri ...
*
Data Visualization
Data and information visualization (data viz or info viz) is an interdisciplinary field that deals with the graphic representation of data and information. It is a particularly efficient way of communicating when the data or information is num ...
References
External links
*{{official website, http://piktochart.com/
Graphics software
Diagramming software
Technical communication tools
Cloud applications
Collaborative software
Web applications
2012 software
Online companies of Malaysia
2012 establishments in Malaysia
Malaysian brands
Internet properties established in 2012
Companies based in Penang