Visual intelligence-turning data into knowledge

Visual intelligence is a process that provides information visualization technology to address the challenge of discovering and exploiting information. For innovative companies, visual intelligence applications are improving their decision-making capabilities by performing spatial and multivariate visual data analysis and providing rapid access to comprehensible information. This paper examines the issue faced by most business-how to turn data into understandable business knowledge, and make this knowledge accessible to persons who rely on it. The role of information visualization techniques and the visual user interface (VUI) in the overall visual intelligence process is assessed. The integration of data warehousing, information visualization, Web and new visual interaction techniques will change and expand the paradigms of current work of humans using computers. Visual intelligence will improve visual communication that takes place in all elements of the user interface and provide decreased "time-to-enlightenment".