360° MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYTICAL VISUALIZATIONS

• US 20120169739A1
• Filed: 12/29/2010
• Published: 07/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Original Assignee: SAP AG (SAP SE)
• Inventors: MEDER, THOMAS
• Application Number:
  US12/980,409
• Publication Number:
  US 20120169739A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/440
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/206 Drawing of charts or graphs

Abstract

Various embodiments of systems and methods for 360° multidimensional analytical visualizations are described herein. A 360° graphical representation of several dimensions at one time, arranged around a circle, oval, or rectangle is described. To get deeper insights, a user can select a certain entity of a dimension by clicking on it. This causes filtering on transactions or facts where this entity is involved. Initially, all entities of a dimension corresponded to 100% share of the dimension, after clicking on the dimension the view is reduced to this entity'"'"'s portion. The rest of the dimensions react similarly by reducing their view also to this focus.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture including a tangible computer readable storage medium to physically store instructions, which when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

receive a selection of a key figure from a navigation pane, wherein the key figure is related to a set of dimensions, each dimension including at least one entity;

add the selected key figure to a detail pane, wherein the detail pane is part of a graphical representation;

receive a selection of an entity of a dimension from the set of dimensions at a dimension pane as part of the graphical representation;

filter the set of dimensions by the selected entity; and

change the graphical representation to display the set of dimensions at one time representing information related to the selected entity, the information including a portion of the key figure for the at least one entity for each dimension.

2. The article of manufacture of claim 1, further comprising instructions to cause the computer to:

configure the key figure as a master key figure; and

distribute dimension space according to the at least one entity for each dimension related to the master key figure by contribution of the at least one entity.

3. The article of manufacture of claim 2, further comprising instructions to cause the computer to:

highlight a second entity from the set of dimensions if its contribution to the master key figure is above a relevance factor;

hide the second entity in the graphical representation if it has no contribution to the master key figure; and

add the second entity in a separate group if its contribution to the master key figure is below the relevance factor.

4. The article of manufacture of claim 1, further comprising instructions to cause the computer to:

if the selected entity is included in a hierarchical dimension, display the entity in the hierarchical dimension as a first level of a hierarchy; and

display a next lower level of entities in the hierarchical dimension.

5. The article of manufacture of claim 1, wherein the dimension includes a scale representing contribution of the set of dimensions.

6. The article of manufacture of claim 5, further comprising instructions to cause the computer to:

receive a selection of a point in the scale, wherein the point symbolizes contribution to the key figure;

reduce the dimension to display largest entities that correspond to the contribution; and

reduce rest of the set of dimensions to display entities that are bound to underlying transactions.

7. The article of manufacture of claim 2, wherein the at least one entity is sorted in descending order according to its contribution to the master key figure.

8. A computerized method comprising:

receiving a selection of a key figure from a navigation pane, wherein the key figure is related to a set of dimensions, each dimension including at least one entity;

adding the selected key figure to a detail pane, wherein the detail pane is part of a graphical representation;

receiving a selection of an entity of a dimension from the set of dimensions at a dimension pane as part of the graphical representation;

filtering the set of dimensions by the selected entity; and

adapting the graphical representation to display the set of dimensions at one time representing information related to the selected entity, the information including a portion of the key figure for the at least one entity for each dimension.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

configuring the key figure as a master key figure; and

distributing dimension space according to the at least one entity for each dimension related to the master key figure by contribution of the at least one entity.

10. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

highlighting a second entity from the set of dimensions if its contribution to the master key figure is above a relevance factor;

hiding the second entity in the graphical representation if it has no contribution to the master key figure; and

adding the second entity in a separate group if its contribution to the master key figure is below the relevance factor.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

if the selected entity is included in a hierarchical dimension, displaying the entity in the hierarchical dimension as a first level of a hierarchy; and

displaying a next lower level of entities in the hierarchical dimension.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the dimension includes a scale representing contribution of the set of dimensions.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving a selection of a point in the scale, wherein the point symbolizes contribution to the key figure;

reducing the dimension to display largest entities that correspond to the contribution; and

reducing rest of the set of dimensions to display entities that are bound to underlying transactions.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein the at least one entity is sorted in descending order according to its contribution to the master key figure.

15. A computing system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory in communication with the processor, the memory comprising;

a graphical representation to display a set of dimensions at one time representing information related to a selected entity of a dimension, the information including a portion of a key figure related to a set of entities from the set of dimensions;

a dimension pane that includes the set of dimensions equally distributed in the graphical representation, each dimension including at least one entity;

a detail pane that includes at least one key figure; and

a navigation pane that lists available dimensions and key figures for selection to the graphical representation.

16. The computing system of claim 15, wherein the key figure is a master key figure that is related to allocation of space among the set of entities by their contribution.

17. The computing system of claim 15, further comprising a hierarchical dimension that includes a hierarchy of entities.

18. The computing system of claim 17, wherein a highest level of the hierarchy is displayed as an outer border of the dimension pane and a lowest level in the hierarchy is displayed as an inner border of the dimension pane.

19. The computing system of claim 16, wherein the set of entities is sorted in descending order according to their contribution to the master key figure.

20. The computing system of claim 15, further comprising a key figure dimension that includes a scale of key figure units to narrow results displayed in the graphical representation by selecting a point in the scale.