Collaboration

The Soltex platform enables organisations to manage large data collection exercises that involve data submitted and edited by hundreds of different data providers in many different places, departments and groups, facilitating seamless collaboration between data providers, data users and data managers. This web-based collaboration is provided as a scheduled data submission and analysis workflow with data managers and data providers communicating by e-mail, telephone or fax. Soltex also offers online data sharing where every particular dataset can be opened, edited and analysed by many users simultaneously.

Scheduled Workflow

Scheduled workflow is based around a conventional collaboration model. It is governed by data collection, validation and analysis workflow that defines notifications, reminders and confirmations sent by data managers to data providers or (other users) in response to specified conditions (e.g. start of data collection, data submission delay or a failed validation check). Some of these notifications can be automatically generated by Soltex along customer’s guidelines, while others, like phone calls, are performed by managers.

We have tried and tested this workflow-based collaboration scheme in numerous projects with splendid results: it dramatically improves data collection and management efficiency, provider participation and takeover as well as overall data quality.

Online Collaboration

Along with workflow schedules and timelines Soltex can be configured to support the online collaboration models offered by many web-services. Online collaboration means that users can simultaneously access datasets (tables, reports, filters) stored in a system and work on them as a team coordinated by instant messaging or other means. Every team member, provided they have sufficient access rights, can enter or edit data in any cell, column or row, while other ones can at the same time work on other cells, columns or rows.

While people collaborate online, Soltex constantly saves and updates the data they are working on, ensuring that every bit is stored.

The online collaboration model is a more hands-on approach to shared data management, with updates and their effect made instantly visible to the whole team. Our Bitcut service is a good example of online collaboration.