To encourage acceptance and cooperation amongst educators, toolmakers, software developers, and end users in the open design of an internationally accepted common component that can be installed to a standalone desktop system or to a network server as a Personal or GroupWare Data Warehouse. The only features available would be the capability to Add, Change, or Delete records. Applications developed by others that attach to the component would be responsible for all other value added actions and information.
For Educators:
Have an example which is known to all participants and allows the instructor to cover a
complex subject without straying from the objective of communicating the best processes
for obtaining maximum database results.
For Marketers:
To have a method to compare competing products. which explores all features.
For Software Tool Makers and Marketers:
To create a presentation which would use all functions of the particular tool in
developing this Personal or GroupWare Data Warehouse component and demonstrate how
other components can be created to attach and use this basic information. The data would
be understood by a majority of seminar audiences anywhere in the world and allow them to
concentrate on how the tool massages and displays that data. To give each participant the
incentive to use the host's particular tool by giving them a copy of what is created at
the seminar for their personal use. To keep participants and prospects informed by
marketing pre-loaded copies with information about the companies personnel and products.
For Software Developers:
To have an open Personal or GroupWare Data Warehouse "common component"
to attach their programs to which would allow less "reinventing the wheel" on
each new project.
For End Users: One Repository For All Data!
To allow programs from different developers to use this common data and save the end user
the effort of maintaining data in several different applications. To allow end users to
attach components to create applications and not have to pick the "best of the
litter" from applications which may or may not have the features they desire. To
allow end users to easily import/export data from publishers or web-sites that would then
be available to all attached software. To allow legacy data to easily be evolved into a
Personal or Corporate Data Warehouse and be more centralized for easier analysis.