Visualizing Corporate Data

Visualization is an emerging technology for understanding large, complex, information-rich datasets. Just as spreadsheets revolutionized our ability to understand small amounts of data, visualization is revolutionizing the way we understand large datasets. We have developed a suite of applications, based on a common software infrastructure, and applied them to analyze strategic datasets and solve key business problems. Our software tools are being commercialized so that they can be exploited within AT&T to gain competitive advantage, and, at the same time be made available to the commercial marketplace. 1 Introduction Over the last decade businesses have experienced an explosive growth in their ability to generate, collect, and store data. This has occurred because of ongoing technology trends including the availability of larger, cheaper disks, the widespread usage and standardization of database management systems, the ubiquity of bar codes, and the computerization of business and g..