Graphical tools

Graphical tools are software tools that link resources together in an online visual collaboration to author rich web presentations, upload and share visual content among team or customers inside a visual workspace.

Graphical tools can help link people’s experiences from across the globe and foster collaboration by providing a dynamic workspace to draw, annotate and review shared designs and documents.

Graphical tools uses visualization techniques to create a graphical network representation of patterns of reference in collaborative discourse.

As corporate data become more complex, Graphical tools will become an increasingly useful business tool. IBM Many Eyes is a public site, so there’s currently little real corporate information on it, but we can imagine several business scenarios in which visualization may help:^[1]

• A team doing a complex market analysis might use a collaborative-visualization intranet site to get a much better understanding than is possible today of the ways in which one month’s data differ from the previous month’s.
• A company seeking to wring costs out of its supply chain might post a treemap showing items’ relative sourcing expenses, enabling “many eyes”-those of employees and suppliers-to spot new areas for potential savings.

Graphical tools can be divided into two categories:

• Whiteboarding Tools: are software tools that link users together in an online visual workspace where they can draw, markup, save and upload designs on a blank canvas.
• Modeling Tools: are software tools that focuses on developing 2D and 3D models, flow document and charts.

References

External links

• A Graphical Tool for Collaborative Knowledge Work