Fusionsoft SemanticNet: Platform for Semantic Development and Integration of Information Systems |
The product is for IT departments who need a platform for rapid and high-quality development and integration of information systems. First of all, the platform bridges a gap between data and their conceptual representation, and it facilitates declarative creation of rich GUI over data managed by different DBMS at one time.
End users of information systems are always interested in information semantics itself rather that how it is stored or accessed. That is exactly what the platform gives for end users. Also within the platform, end users, operating with application domain concepts, could create their own rich GUI forms over integrated data with no programming and with automatically supported semantic navigation and drilling down. Specific needs can be met by developing new components and publishing them within the platform by programmers. As now the components can only be implemented with Java and DBMS can only be relational, but it is permanent restriction.
The platform provides the high-level vision of data and reduces integrated system development costs since:
it separates the data and GUI layers by the semantic layer enabling rich GUI form development for end users themselves who know application domains and nothing about implementation;
form navigation and drilling down are supported automatically, form publishing is sufficient for that;
it provides the single entry point, using one general GUI, into all exploited information systems with semantic navigation throughout the whole set of them like a single system.
The platform also reduces integrated system maintenance costs since:
data structures can evolve with no changes in their conceptual representation for end users and GUI;
forms developed by end users themselves can be published for other users to exploit, thereby reducing involvement of programmers in form development and maintenance;
new information systems can be added dynamically and transparently for end users who could only notice extension of the semantic layer.
The platform is being developed now.
The product has a series of innovations making it unique in the market niche:
Application-domain-oriented end-user-friendly development of rich GUI with loose-coupled forms and automatically supported semantic navigation.
Semantic integration of different-platform information systems with simple tuning up.
Automatic drill-down support for any data, not only those presented with an OLAP cube.