Integrated Data Metrics Display via Drag-and-Drop Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions for integrating business metrics from multiple data sources are complex and time-consuming, requiring significant configuration and formatting to combine offline and online data, often involving complicated uploading methods and increased processing time.
Innovation Solution
A computer-implemented system and method that uses an integration module to automatically integrate data metrics from different sources by positioning an icon representing a delimited data file on a graphical interface, allowing for real-time comparison and correlation without the need for manual data mapping or separate uploading processes, using a drag-and-drop operation to combine offline and online data.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If prior solutions for combining data from different sources are used, then data integration is achieved, but the process involves significant configuration and formatting requirements, complicated uploading methods, and increased processing time
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs automatic data integration where the computing device autonomously retrieves data from multiple sources, combines it, and updates the graphical interface without requiring manual configuration or formatting by the user. The system self-manages the entire data integration process including data retrieval, combination, and display updates.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical processes (downloading data to spreadsheets, complex query processes, manual uploading) with an automated electronic system that directly retrieves and combines data from multiple sources and displays it in real-time on a graphical interface, eliminating the need for intermediate manual steps.
2Ease of operation
If manual data mapping and separate uploading processes are used, then data from different sources can be combined, but processing time increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges multiple data retrieval and upload operations into a single automated process. The computing device simultaneously retrieves data from multiple sources, combines it using predefined relationships, and updates the graphical interface in one coordinated action, eliminating sequential manual steps.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring data relationships and integration rules beforehand, so that when data needs to be integrated, the system can automatically retrieve and combine data from multiple sources without requiring real-time manual mapping or configuration decisions.
3Measurement precision
If complex query processes are used to extract specific subsets of information from the database, then specific data can be retrieved, but the process becomes time-consuming and complicated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces complex manual query processes with an automated electronic system that retrieves specific data subsets directly from multiple sources using predefined criteria and relationships, eliminating the need for time-consuming manual database querying and data filtering.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods for are disclosed for providing integrated display of data metrics from different data sources. In some embodiments, an icon representing a de-limited data file can be positioned on a graphical interface that displays first metrics data for a first time period. An integration module can respond to the positioning of the icon by determining that the de-limited data file includes second metrics data for a second time period at least partially overlapping with the first time period. The integration module can update the graphical interface to display at least some of the second metrics data from the delimited data file with the first metrics data. The first metrics data and the second metrics data can be displayed for at least an overlapping portion between the first and second time periods.