===== Connectivity =====

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

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

==== PMA.vue ====

With PMA.vue, you can integrate virtual slides ([[https://realdata.pathomation.com/what-whole-slide-images-wsis-are-made-of/|find out what makes these data so unique from other imaging data]] from [[https://www.pathomation.com/formats|any number of slide scanners]] into a single user interface. 

You get tree-based navigation on top of your slide repositories (organized through a single PMA.core back-end [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sepPIexKELE|tile server]]).

Not only can you connect to data within your own organization, PMA.vue also makes it easy to reach out to external parties and connect other to //you// in return. PMA.vue offers many sharing features, and comes with built-in snapshot capabilities to prepare manuscripts and other publications.

==== PMA.studio ====

PMA.studio adds connectivity where PMA.vue stops. 

PMA.studio 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, PMA.studio visualizes these accordingly and can be used as a front-end for interactive data capture from end-users.

Speaking of annotations: with PMA.studio 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 PMA.studio to assess which implementation is best suited based on different conditions.


==== Compare PMA.vue and PMA.studio ====

The following table compares connectivity provisions between PMA.vue and PMA.studio:

^ Connectivity ^ Functionality ^ PMA.vue ^ PMA.studio ^
| Incoming | slides stored on server | Yes | Yes |
| | slides stored on network drive| Yes | Yes |
| | slides stored on S3 storage | Yes | Yes |
| | slides stored in [[https://www.azure.com|Azure]] | Yes | Yes |
| | slides stored on FTP | Yes | 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 | Yes |
| | Tab-based viewport organization | Yes | Yes |
| | Aribitrary grid sizes| - | Yes |
| Outgoing | Share live links to a folder | Yes | Yes |
| | Share live links to a slide | Yes | Yes |
| | Share live links to regions of interest | Yes | Yes |
| | Share live links to grid | Yes | Yes |
| | Snapshot creation | Yes | Yes |
| | Annotations | - | Yes |