===== Connectivity =====

We live in a connected world, where vertical data-silos unfortunately are still much too frequent.

With our PIMSLS products, we want to help you integrate disparate information sources, and bring them together in a single harmonized interface.

PIMSLS allows interaction with multiple PMA.core tile servers simultaneously (as well as [[https://free.pathomation.com|PMA.start]] and [[https://my.pathomation.com|My Pathomation]]).

Meta-data is important to describe and annotate data. When configured properly in PMA.core, PIMSLS visualizes these accordingly and can be used as a front-end for interactive data capture from end-users.

Speaking of annotations: with PIMSLS you have the option to integrate data-layers and overlays from different image analysis suites. You can [[https://diagnosticpathology.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s13000-022-01225-4.pdf|run a proprietary plugin in QuPath and another one in Fiji]], and then visualize both results in PIMSLS to assess which implementation is best suited based on different conditions.


==== PIMSLS connectivity ====

The following table gives an overview of just some of the connective capabilities of PIMSLS:

^ Connectivity ^ Functionality ^ PIMSLS ^
| Incoming | slides stored on server  | Yes |
| | slides stored on network drive | Yes |
| | slides stored on S3 storage  | Yes |
| | slides stored in [[https://www.azure.com|Azure]]  | Yes |
| | slides stored on FTP  | Yes |
| | slides stored local HDD | Yes |
| | slides stored in [[https://my.pathomation.com|My Pathomation]]  | Yes |
| | Annotations  | Yes |
| Layout and presentation | Pre-configured grids  | Yes |
| | Tab-based viewport organization  | Yes |
| | Aribitrary grid sizes | Yes |
| Outgoing | Share live links to a folder  | Yes |
| | Share live links to a slide  | Yes |
| | Share live links to regions of interest  | Yes |
| | Share live links to grid  | Yes |
| | Snapshot creation  | Yes |
| | Annotations  | Yes |