Augmented Business Visualisation (ABV) is a new paradigm in visualisation which provides rich and actionable visual decision making environments on all delivery platforms by connecting portions of documents to business data found in enterprise applications. With ABV, information and business data is synthesised from multiple sources into a single visual environment, delivering rich information context to users.

(Thanks to Jim Hubbard for spotting this)

Back story: 1. History of something; events which took place before, usually necessary to explain action in a film. 2. Often deceitful attempt to suggest provenance for a product where there is none; fanciful guff trumped up by marketing department along the lines of “forged in the crucible of time”, “lovingly handpicked by Masai virgins”, or “individually blessed by the pope”. (see Authenticity; Provenance)

Headline benediction: 1. Short summary of a theme. 2. Curiously religious reference, rather suggesting that the pope or some other church dignitary has blessed the findings of a business meeting; shades of divine intervention, possibly hoping that approval from on high will improve one’s mortal business chances of success.

Green flag, that’s a ____ at this stage: 1. Go ahead; originally based on the waving of such a flag at the beginning or resumption of a motor race. 2. Rather annoying use of Grand Prix vocabulary to imbue humdrum business approvals with a touch of Formula One glamour; implication that everything is a fuel-injected race of some kind; as ever, propagated by plump salesmen who spent far too much of their youth playing with toy cars, but not learning how to drive them very well. (see Green light; Greenlit)

Hot button topic: 1. Subject that is currently fashionable or relevant. 2. Rather aggravating pseudo-technological idea that a discussion theme can somehow be summoned by the press of a button, perhaps as on a game show; even more annoying when applied to a person, as in “I think this is definitely going to press Virginia’s hot button,” a notion that could certainly be open to misinterpretation.