Visualizing corporate data

Abstract

Corporate databases have been recognized as strategic assets, and a successful corporation will make full use of its data resources to gain competitive advantage to better manage its business. Visualization is a key technology for extracting information from data, therefore, it is becoming increasingly important in our information rich society. It complements other analytic, model based approaches and exploits human pattern perception. Visualization can help users to navigate and explore the fast-growing number of data warehouses far more easily, and to rapidly discover the information hidden within volumes of data.