What is Data Visualization?Written by Joe Miller
Data Visualization is InteractiveHave you ever booked your flight plans online and noticed that you can now not only view seat availability but also choose your own seat? Maybe you have notice that when you want to look up information online on another country, you may find a website where all you have to do to get political, economical, geographical, and other information is drag your mouse over area of country in which you are interested. Maybe you have put together a business presentation consisting of multiple levels of complex marketing and budget information in a simple display which allows you to review all aspects of your report by simply clicking on one area of a map, chart, or graph. You may have even made predictions by altering some information and watching graph change before your idea. Warehouses are tracking inventory. Businesses are tracking sales. People are creating visual displays of information that meets their needs. The traveler, student, average worker, marketing executive, warehouse manager, CEO are now able to interact with information they are looking for with data visualization tools. Data Visualization is ImaginativeIf you can visualize it in your mind, you can visualize it on a computer screen. The avid skier may be interested in comparing average snowfall at Soldier Mountain, ID. Doctors and students may need to compare average cancer mortality rate of men to women in Montana or Hawaii. The examples are endless.
| | FileNet and Other Collaborative SolutionsWritten by Joe Miller
In midst of bustle and shuffle of collaborative whirlwind of documents, drafts, e-mails, and electronic documents that is 21st century business, it is important to evaluate best collaborative software suites available on market today. FileNet packages have stepped up to plate to seek to provide helpful tools for organizing enterprise content that exists in modern-day corporation: e-mails and drafts of presentations, reports, and budgets.FileNet is a provider of collaborative document management. FileNet helps to organize and file electronic documents and drafts, making it easier to put together pieces of often complex business collaboration puzzle. The business process may sometimes seem in serious disarray. With each project and report there could be any number of individuals forming a committee, including members of management and clients. The trick is to bring into one document individual ideas of each group member. FileNet recognizes that this process necessitates sending e-mailed drafts back and forth, saving multiple versions of a document on multiple drives and servers, and organizing drafts prior to merging. FileNet provides an electronic system in which to track systematic editorial processes of businesses. FileNet is installed with ability to integrate with most IT infrastructures. Businesses may choose other collaborative software, or groupware that covers more informal, or ad hoc, processes that FileNet cannot cover. The important thing is that businesses find collaborative software which meets its specific needs. FileNet has opened many doors to document management, and other companies have built upon idea of providing software to track document versions. Other collaborative software solutions provide additional technologies, such as Digital Thread by NextPage.
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