Clientigent

Why to use data storage with advanced permission model

Reasons not to use Excel (cont.)

Use a data storage which can set permissions to data, ideally with a hierarchical structure.

  • Client: Clientigent
  • Date: September 2021
  • Style: Hand-drawn

Main ideas

Use a data storage which can set permissions to data, ideally with a hierarchical structure.

  1. Without permissions users overwrite each other’s data.
  2. A reliable log of operations shows what was done by whom (and when).
  3. Not everybody should see everything, e.g. salaries (my own yes, those of my subordinates yes, the others not).
  4. Processes (workflows) are toothless without permissions, approvals cannot be enforced.

The solution is a hierarchical structure of permissions and workflows built on top of it in a custom software.

Script

  1. Collaboration (15 s) more hands draw a portrait which does not make sense as a whole
    • two busts from behind at an easel, a bubble appears above their heads (a man vs. a woman), zoom over their shoulders on the easel
    • one hand draws a part of a woman’s head with long hair, another hand adds a man’s beard
    • one hand draws a necklace, the other a pipe
    • zoom out, nobody likes the result ($%^&#^ grrr…)
    • zoom in through the canvas into the next picture
  2. Logging (15 s) a bunch of dogs runs away and leaves a poo nobody owns up to
    • dogs run in front of the camera from both sides
    • a cloud of dust
    • the cloud disappears, the dogs run away and a poo is left on the ground
    • zoom out on the owners in the foreground, above them a shovel, a broom, a bin, a paper bag and a question mark
  3. Data access (15 s) a company hierarchy where everybody sees everybody’s salary (the boss looks down and sees the salaries, but then a subordinate looks up and sees the boss’s salary too)
    • a pyramid of three levels: boss, sub-boss and subordinate
    • the boss looks at his subordinates, sees their salary ($$) and smiles
    • the sub-boss looks at his subordinates, sees their salary ($) and smiles
    • the subordinate looks up, sees the boss’s salary ($$$) and is surprised, his boss sees it and frowns
    • the boss looks up too and is surprised, his boss frowns
  4. Processes (workflows) (15 s) making a mug
    • a conveyor belt with a lump of clay, the camera follows the clay
    • the first worker with the shape of a mug on his back slides to the belt
    • behind him there is a mug on the belt instead of the lump
    • another worker with a handle on his back slides to the belt
    • then a worker with a flower decoration
    • a robotic arm reaches from above and puts the mug on a shelf above the belt
    • then everything repeats, but the worker making the mug is only sketched, so only the lump of clay goes on
    • the next worker adds a handle, another one paints it, the arm puts it on the shelf…
    • zoom on the shelf full of rejects (a lump of clay with a handle and a picture, a shape without a handle and a picture, various shapes, …)

Storyboard

Storyboard