en Introduction (comments)

Owned by Susanne Tilgner
Last updated: Sept 05, 2023
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Commenting on business data

Good visualizations help to understand data better and to identify patterns or trends.
With our graphomate suite and the graphomate tiles for various BI tools, we have given our customers to visualize data in an appropriate and meaningful way and to define a visualization standard that complies to the International Business Communications Standard (IBCS).
By creating a "visual context", decision-makers can better understand the business situation.

Another aspect is the enrichment of reports and dashboards with textual content. One would like to be able to add explanatory text to data constellations that require explanation.

Our graphomate comments provide this possibility on different levels:

  1. Comments as independent text objects
    A freely positionable stand-alone custom widget provides space to enter explanatory text for a specific data constellation. Comments are stored with the creator and date of creation and are displayed when the data constellation is recalled. For example:
    "The EBIT for the whole organisation decreased in the month of May 2022 because an extraordinary depreciation was booked due to a fire in a warehouse".

  2. Data point comments
    Data point comments explain a specific data value in a graphomate suite component. The presence of a comment is indicated by a small comment icon on the chart element or in the table cell: "Revenues in the month of May 2022 are 20% higher due to the invoicing of the major project 'Airport'."
    The presence of a comment is indicated by a small comment icon on the chart element or in the table cell:

  3. Comments on a visualization
    Comments can also be saved as titles in a visualization component of the graphomate suite.
    Not a single data point, but a recognisable trend or pattern should be described in the title of the component. These comments are displayed either as full text or in the form of an icon.

Comments are always entered via an identical input field that opens on request.

Important: A prerequisite for entering comments is the definition of a so-called context.
This context describes the space spanned by dimensions and key figures as well as other restrictions for the graphomate comments. Within this space, all characteristics of the selected dimensions and key figures can be commented freely.
The graphomate comments will also offer the possibility to inform users about a comment by e-mail.

graphomate comments allows you to map content-related permissions on a contextual level, and we are working on a workflow concept - for example, for approving comments.