It seems his future is likely to take him from those exotic beaches and place him in an office cube before a softly glowing monitor. I ntelligence organizations and many private sector companies are collecting and storing more data than analysts can effectively manage, says Dave Shuping, Visual Decisions Inc.'s regional sales manager for the Washington, D.C., area. A query can return thousands of records, displayed as rows and columns of numbers and text. One 3-D screen can handle the equivalent of 500 screens of numerical or text data. On the private side, NationsBank Corp., based in Charlotte, N.C., has been using another VDI 3-D data visualization toolset, Discovery for Developers, for two years, and Susan Osterfelt, senior vice president in the company's Strategic Technology Group, terms it a breakthrough.
Visualization makes data more comprehensible.