Intuitive and expressive
- It is all about “envisioning information”
- User does things within the system “in perspective”
- Users sees the connected information that he needs
Promotes graphical thinking and creation/management of information
Quickly find the information you need with interactive graphs
Filter graph visualizations to work on specific elements or specific sections of data
Takes an Information/knowledge centric view as opposed to data-centric view
- Data is logically grouped into information and presented to the users
- Arrangement of nodes and edges as a narrative
- Provides clarity of content
Tracks history of objects and keeps it persistent
Supports the concept of views
- Different content need different views
- Graphs visually helps users track dependencies and provides contextual insights
Context aware components
- Contextual Data Authoring
- Honors authorization protocols of the PLM vendor
- Takes a proactive view as opposed to “try your luck” approach
Process-directed user interface
- Reduces training costs
- UI is proactively rendered without user having to wonder what to do next
- Helps analyze, easily detect and investigate insights hidden in graph data
- Spreadsheet like capabilities to Sort, Filter, update large amount of data real time
