[2][3][4][5] On January 26, 2015, The Hive Group announced that it had merged with Visual Action Software.

[6] The Hive Group is a privately held company founded in 2000, with headquarters in Richardson, Texas.

Ben Shneiderman, the inventor of the treemap concept, is a member of The Hive Group’s Board of Advisors.

[10] A large quantity of information can be found, both in printed form and on the internet, detailing the Honeycomb-based USMC MERIT application.

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