Guided Page Navigation for Cross-Domain Data Discovery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Business intelligence systems require custom programming and maintenance, limiting user control and preventing seamless data discovery across data domains, especially on tablet devices where no effective solutions exist for dynamic data linking and navigation.
Innovation Solution
The development of methods and systems for configuring guided pages and documents based on industry-specific data dimensions, allowing direct navigation between distinct data domains through a guided page navigation engine, utilizing industry-specific data models and core dimensions for rapid access and data discovery, and enabling synchronization for offline use.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If business intelligence systems use custom programming and maintenance by professional systems analysts, then the system can be customized and maintained, but user control is limited and direct data discovery is prevented
Solution Approach 1:
The system is segmented into distinct components: a professional configuration interface for systems analysts to define data domains and relationships, and a user-friendly guided navigation interface for end users. This segmentation allows each user type to access appropriate functionality without requiring the other's expertise, resolving the contradiction between customization capability and user control.
Solution Approach 2:
A guided page navigation engine acts as an intermediary between the complex backend data structures and the end user. This intermediary translates professional configurations into user-friendly guided pages with actionable elements, enabling users to control their own data discovery while the system maintains professional-level customization capabilities.
2Reliability
If dynamic linking of data is limited to diving vertically within a data domain, then data consistency is maintained, but viewing related data in other data domains is prevented without cumbersome regeneration
Solution Approach 1:
The system adds a new dimension to data navigation by implementing cross-domain horizontal movement through shared core dimensions. Instead of being constrained to vertical movement within single data domains, users can now navigate across multiple data domains by following relationships through shared core dimensions, dramatically improving data discovery efficiency while maintaining data consistency through the structured navigation paths.
3Ease of operation
If tablet-based business intelligence systems are developed, then mobile accessibility is improved, but effective data linking and navigation solutions are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The guided page navigation system is designed to be dynamic and adaptive to tablet device characteristics. The system automatically adjusts the presentation of guided pages and actionable elements based on the tablet interface, providing mobile-optimized navigation without requiring complex device-specific programming. This dynamic adaptation enables effective data linking and navigation on tablet devices while maintaining simplicity for end users.
Data Source
AI summary
Configuring a set of guided documents for operation of a business activity based on a workflow for the activity, industry expertise, and a plurality of models of source data that is relevant to the business activity, wherein points of entry to access the guided documents are organized around one or more industry-specific data dimensions.