In most management domains, problem-solving is overwhelming because of the large amount of complicated data, multiple complex relationships among data, and the negotiability of the constraints. Although computers become more and more available, the primary challenge of the computing society in the current and coming decades is not the computational power. It is the collected or generated data, especially their presentations to users in a comprehensible form, that affect and limit the basic capabilities of computing. It is extremely necessary to improve the communication between users and computers, to transform the vast computing-related data into some representations that help humans to understand the data.
Humans are visual creatures.
Most of what we learn comes through our sight. The practice of business information visualization needs guidelines from theoretical perspectives, as well as practical perspectives. As business information visualization is an area where few theoretical and practical results have been obtained, we construct the visualization theory by expanding related work in other fields. We will then apply the visualization model to concrete business domains to verify the effectiveness of the model. We hope that a new discipline for business information visualization will be established and it will have its own theoretical foundation and methodology.