SBIR Phase I: General-Purpose Software for Collaborative End-User Database Management

SBIR 第一阶段：用于协作最终用户数据库管理的通用软件

• 批准号: 1843774
• 负责人: Eirik Bakke
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: ULTORG INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-01 至 2021-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1843774&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; General; Purpose; Software

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will be to make organizations more productive by helping them organize operational data in a structured yet accessible way. Today, organizations tend to accumulate such data in spreadsheets, scattered across users and folders, with new copies and revisions being made every time data must be presented, summarized, or integrated in a new way. This leads to tedious cut-and-paste workflows, costly errors, and a lack of reliable information for decision support. This project proposes a general-purpose software solution, based on a recently developed method for interactive database visualization. The system's novelty is in the ease and flexibility with which data can be queried and laid out on the screen, covering a large range of use cases that would previously require custom programming. Applications can be found in all manner of organizations: corporations, non-profits, higher education, science, healthcare, journalism, disaster response, the military, public administration, and so on.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop a general-purpose, user-friendly software product that individuals within an organization can use to store and share structured data along with the various data displays through which said data is viewed, queried, and edited. Such data displays could include arbitrary database queries, visualizations such as crosstabs, calendars, and bar charts, as well as non-tabular multi-query visualizations such as forms, dashboards, and hierarchical reports. Using the proposed software, organizations can decrease time spent on administrative and managerial tasks, improve the use of data in decision-making, and, in many cases, eliminate yearlong internal software development projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将通过帮助组织以结构化但可访问的方式组织运营数据，使组织更具生产力。如今，组织倾向于在电子表格中积累这些数据，分散在用户和文件夹中，每次必须以新的方式呈现、汇总或集成数据时，都会制作新的副本和修订。这会导致繁琐的剪切和粘贴工作流、代价高昂的错误以及缺乏可靠的决策支持信息。该项目提出了一个通用的软件解决方案，基于最近开发的交互式数据库可视化方法。该系统的新奇之处在于可以轻松灵活地查询数据并在屏幕上布局，涵盖了以前需要自定义编程的大量用例。应用程序可以在各种组织中找到：公司，非营利组织，高等教育，科学，医疗保健，新闻，灾难应对，军事，公共管理等。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目将开发一个通用的，用户-一种友好的软件产品，组织内的个人可以使用它来存储和共享结构化数据沿着通过所述数据被查看、查询和编辑。这样的数据显示可以包括任意数据库查询、可视化（如交叉表、日历和条形图）以及非表格式多查询可视化（如表单、仪表板和分层报告）。使用建议的软件，组织可以减少花费在行政和管理任务上的时间，改善决策中数据的使用，并且在许多情况下，消除长达一年的内部软件开发项目。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。