Integrated Analytics and Search Framework
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Solution Overview
Problem
Enterprise transaction searches often return simple lists lacking insightful mechanisms, requiring users to navigate multiple applications for data modification and analytics, leading to inefficiencies and loss of search context.
Innovation Solution
An integrated analytics and search framework that allows users to specify transaction searches and analytics within a single interface, enabling interactive data manipulation and visualization through pivot grids and charts, with user options for saving settings and performing actions directly on search results.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If separate analytics engines and applications are used to analyze search results, then analytical functionality is provided, but user experience deteriorates and computational efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines separate search and analytics engines into a single integrated framework where search results and analytics are generated and displayed together in one interface. This eliminates the need for users to navigate between separate applications while maintaining both search and analytical capabilities, directly resolving the contradiction between providing versatile analytics functionality and ensuring ease of operation.
Solution Approach 2:
The integrated framework provides multi-functionality by enabling both transaction search and analytics operations within a single system. Users can perform searches, view results, and immediately access analytical insights without switching contexts, making the system universally capable of handling both search and analysis tasks efficiently.
2Adaptability or versatility
If separate applications are used for data modification and analytics, then specialized functionality is available, but time consumption increases and search context is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges data modification capabilities and analytics functions into the search interface itself. Users can modify transaction data and perform analytical operations directly on search results without navigating to separate applications, thereby maintaining search context and significantly reducing time consumption while preserving specialized functionality.
3Ease of operation
If basic listing format is used for search results, then simplicity is maintained, but insightful mechanisms are lacking
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enhances basic search result listings by adding analytical dimensions through charts, graphs, and visualizations that provide insights into transaction patterns, trends, and relationships. This dimensional enhancement maintains the simplicity of the interface while delivering rich insightful information through multiple representation layers.
4Ease of operation
If integrated framework is used, then user experience improves and context is maintained, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
While merging search and analytics into one framework does increase internal system complexity, the patent manages this by creating a unified architecture that handles both functions through integrated data flows and processing pipelines. The complexity is encapsulated within the system boundaries, allowing users to experience simplicity and coherence without manually managing the underlying complexity.
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AI summary
A system and method facilitating data search, analysis, and/or related actions or data modifications in an enterprise computing environment. An example method includes providing a first user option to specify a transaction search; providing a second user option to specify an analytic; and employing an integrated analytics and search framework to present one or more search results via the analytic in response to user selection of the first user option. In a more specific embodiment, the first user option further enables user specification of one or more dimensions of a data component used for a search, by manipulation of an analytics setting. A third user option enables user modification of search data returned as search results and/or may enable users to perform related actions, e.g., approval of expense reports. Additional controls may enable selective user access to functionality depending upon content of the search results.