Simplifying searches with templates

We aim to make our core product MasterVision as easy to use as possible, whilst still enabling users to perform complex tasks to get the most out of their customer data. We currently offer two […]

It’s the summer holiday season – a time to get away, relax and forget about all those recurring data tasks you have lined up. If you have those jobs automated, you can happily switch off […]

If you saw our blog article ‘Who ate all the pies?‘ a couple of months ago, you’ll know that we’re always on the lookout for new ways to make using MasterVision as clear and intuitive […]

Software as a service (SaaS) is everywhere these days, with high-profile success stories like Salesforce leading the charge of hosted business tools. When we launched MasterVision back in 2006, the term “SaaS” wasn’t in common […]

Here at DataSalon we’re constantly looking at how best to present data in clear and intuitive ways. Top of our ‘hit list’ was to come up with a better alternative to using the humble pie […]

by DataSalon
Posted on February 24, 2014October 23, 2014
Technology Topics

We dipped our toes into the world of webinars recently, hosting a free session on the topic of data quality. This was the first webinar we’ve hosted and as such was a bit of an […]

by Jon Monday
Posted on October 28, 2013October 30, 2013
Technology Topics

We have recently spent a lot of time looking at data quality issues in publisher data. Email addresses are a key piece of contact info, and essential for online marketing campaigns, so it’s particularly important […]

Hierarchical searching

Anyone who works with customer records in scholarly publishing will know that a complicating factor can be the hierarchical relationships between individuals, departments, institutions and consortia. For a long time now it has been possible […]

Why AND and OR cause confusion

Like many online services, MasterVision lets users create searches which include ANDs and ORs. These terms are used in everyday English, and so it’s easy to assume that their meaning should be clear. But in practice, […]

The challenge of navigating large lists

In MasterVision it’s possible to run searches which return a very large number of results, with thousands or even millions of hits. This gives rise to an interesting challenge – how best to allow users to […]