Commenting on business data
Good visualisations 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 the possibility to formulate a visualisation standard and to visualise data in an appropriate and meaningful way. 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:
Comments as independent text objects
A separate comment component provides space for entering explanatory text for a specific data constellation. Comments are stored with the creator and creation date and are displayed when the data constellation is called up again. 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".Data point comments
Data point comments describe a specific set of data in a graph or table: "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:Comments on a visualisation element
Comments on a visualisation can also be saved.
It is not a single data point that is to be commented, but, for example, a temporal development as a whole in the title or in the footer of the component. Comments can be displayed in full 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 also offer the possibility to inform users about a comment by e-mail.
During the second half of 2023, we want to map content-related permissions at the context level and work on a workflow concept - for example, for the approval of comments.