Recently I have been building solutions and gathering insights. However now I need to present these to senior leadership. The issue is even though i built everything in Foundry, I need to create a holistic summary of what’s been done to showcase our last few months of work in one meeting. To do this requires me going outside of the foundry ecosystem and using an application like PowerPoint.
I know the Foundry philosophy is not to use PowerPoints but instead showcasing actual applications and value. But there is a space for a PowerPoint application when explaining a whole project.
I would love if their was a power point application which i could then add my solution design, a data lineage, a workshop and some high level cost KPIs, etc.
This was just an idea I had to so we can stay in the Foundry ecosystem. I’m wondering what others think.
You can use Solution Designer to add Foundry resources, and clicking on these will open up these resources in a new tab, with the ability to add free form annotations, boxes around groups of resources, and links between them.
Let us know if this works well for you, and if not any feedback would be much appreciated!
I agree here with both of you. Solution Designer is a nice way to describe applications to quite significant detail. even if they are only in conceptual phase. I like that datasets, object types, action types can directly be referenced. This prevents unnecessary searching.
There are a few enhancements, I would like to see added at some point:
possibility to upload images/slides. We break down our solution designers into meaningful blocks. E.g. each page of an application gets its own section. On there we describe what data to use, action types, workflow etc. Sometimes it would help to describe a workflow or a UI concept just as an image
Grouping and hiding multiple blocks: when having a complex application, the solution designer also gets quite big quickly. Similar to pipeline builder, it would help to be able to group nodes into meaningful blocks and then „collapse“ them. Viewers could then just double click into them for details.
Yeah.. even I am looking for the option to add from external sources . Solution Designer is having the in build options. If i wanted to bring some of the optrions from outside, Can i ? I tried mtybest to check and bring other design shapes to Solution Designer and prepare Application workflow diagram to represent with various conditional flows, But failed. I finally used org existing tool for flows to present to business.
I believe the solution designer application use case is meant for development teams to collaborate together before beginning the implementation of a product.
This demo application I’m suggesting is more for product leads to feedback to non technical senior team members. These people aren’t fussed about your individual objects or automations. You’ve just finished a month project and need to feed back, you just want to show them your high level date lineage if they have questions about where ur insights came from. And you want to include ur workshop but also statistics from the cost application of how much this has costed them.
That’s why I refer to a PowerPoint application where i can embed different application but have complete style freedom.
Solution Designer allows you to seamlessly add Objects>properties>attributes &
Linked Resources into a “single-pane” of glass view.
You Can add Workshop app to SD//Link resources(Quiver & Notepad) and seniors could open the file directly to your application(&resources) and provide feedback in real time to specific nodes or entire plans.
Hi @bbd5be9832271c105aa7 I understand now what you mean. What I am asking myself is what functionality would you expect from this presenter app that you can not get today from PowerPoint + live demo of the app itself?
We all know how super duper flexible PowerPoint is, and I am not sure if it would be realistic to rebuild all the flexibility within a foundry.