PAW - Process & Analytics Workbench

Playing with Data in PAW

This blog is about all the thoughts, features, decisions, and musings going into creating PAW - the Processing and Analytics Workbench for managing your data.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Bookmarking data

When the browser was introduced, one of the first innovations to really take off was the bookmark. We got used to bookmarking pages containing useful information... Similarly, very often, in the work environment, we are trying to keep on top of a few critical pieces of information. It might be the project budget, sales to date for my region, or updates to certain bugs that I need to re-test. Our goal is to allow the user to link to that piece of information and bring it into the user's context, rather than the user needing to open up the application or web page and then navigate to find that piece of data.

With the PAW tool, you can define the process to get to those snippets of information, in some cases calculated. Then you can very easily get updates for that data in the PAW environment. In essence, you've bookmarked that data!

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