3 - Panorama Necto 14 application - visualization & data discovery solution

Editor's Notes

• #5: The Necto Home page is the gateway to the Workboards and Discussions you and your peers have created and visited in Necto. It provides thumbnail previews and quick links to those Workboards and discussions. The User area contains your profile Name, Picture (if loaded), email address, plus your Topics of interest and Friends. You can quickly and easily edit your profile from these areas. The Application Bar is positioned at the top of the Workboard and of the Necto Home page, and it contains the options that apply to the entire application. 5 navigation components: Recent, Favorite, Relevant, Recent discussions, Recent subscriptions, along with the Search bar make up the rest of the Homepage
• #6: Recent Workboards: The Workboards you have visited recently. When you start Necto, the Home page displays your recent Workboards by default. Favorite Workboards: The Workboards you have added to your list of favorites. Relevant Workboards: In the Home page, Necto shows the Workboards that are most relevant for your work, and that you are allowed to access. These Workboards are suggested because the system learns from the way you use the system with such values as Topics, Likes, dimensions usage etc. Recent Discussions option in the Necto Home page displays the discussions that you have initiated and those in which you have participated. All the participants in the discussion will be notified via the Recent Discussions option on the Necto Home page, along with an email to prompt a response to the discussion topic. Recent Subscriptions option on the Necto Home page shows the Workboards (public or shared private Workboards) that users you are following have modified or saved. The Subscription function allows you to follow users by subscribing to them. Once you subscribe to a user, you can track the workboard actions that user performs.
• #7: Relevant Workboards are suggested automatically by the system based on user-oriented algorithms. Previous activity – loaded pages. Your likes – what you and other people have marked as like. Your topics of interest - Takes the topics and the work history, and correlates it with all existing Necto Workboards. The Workboards that are most relevant for your work, and that you are allowed to see. Necto picks these Workboards for you automatically, using the following inputs:  Matches between user topics and workboard topics  Workboard usage and popularity, based on audit data  Number of Likes a Workboard receives  The time period you have selected to look at (last year, last week, today…)
• #8: The Recent Discussions option in the Necto Home page displays the discussions that you have initiated and those in which you have participated. Here you receive notifications when you are added to new discussions. Clicking on a discussion will take us the Workboard upon which the discussion is based Discussions are explained in detail, in the lesson about Necto social networking. This function gives you the ability to discuss your findings in a specific Workboard. If you wish to talk about your analytic findings with your peers, you can write notes to other people, and they can reply and share their opinions and ideas regarding the information in Workboard. This helps to accumulate and maintain the knowledge within the system.
• #9: Subscribe: Subscribes you to this user so that you can follow the Workboard actions that this specific user performs. If a user is someone you have subscribed to, a subscription indicator appears in the upper –right corner of the thumbnail (inside Necto application). Recent Subscriptions: The Subscription function allows you to follow users by subscribing to them. Once you subscribe to a user, you can track the Workboard actions that user performs. The Recent Subscriptions option on the Necto Home page shows the Workboards (public or shared private Workboards) that users you are following have modified or saved. You can subscribe to a user:  Via the Subscribed-to Users tab in User Settings.  By using the Subscribe option for a user on the Social Ribbon of a Workboard.
• #10: Its possible to narrow down the list of Workboards presented on the Homepage screen by filtering them using the filtering tools. Topics cloud allows the user to fine tune the relevant information by filtering it to the selected topic (only one topic should be chosen) Visualization styles changes how the thumbnails are presented on the screen. Creation date removes Workboard thumbnail results that were not creates within that timeframe
• #11: Se the next slide for more details
• #14: Workboard is a smart and easily-created page that displays data from various data sources, and its designed to enable the user to explore and analyze company information from different perspectives to take better decisions. A Workboard opens with double-click from Necto Homepage. Workboard is new generation of Dashboard which is interactive, social and user adjustable, supporting and promoting collaboration between users.
• #15: Working area shows Workboard content: the combination of information from various sources: charts, tables, parameters, reporting services, custom HTM and more (will be explained later). Within the Working area users can find the insights in the data using Data Analysis Features.
• #16: Here you can see who your friends are or alternatively who used the current Workboard. You can also subscribe to them, bookmark them and other items by clicking on their social button. You may also drag and drop them to any area of the WorkBoard to start a discussion which will have contextual relevance in that component as well as to the entire Workboard.
• #17: The content of this area depends on the tab above. Can show: Workboard list. Slicers. Discussions. Scrapbook. *Properties (if in design mode)
• #18: The content of this area depends on the tab above. Can show: Workboard list. Slicers. Discussions. Scrapbook.
• #20: Use this option to get instant help: Hover the mouse pointer over an area, feature or button you need assistance with, and a short explanation will be presented to you in the Interactive Help pane. In addition, links for more help will be available below the help text. Instant help is available for a dialog box by clicking the Help button on the dialog box title.
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