Much of the information
that we deal with in our daily lives comes to us as documents.
We are naturally good at dealing with this form of information.
Contrast that with the form of information that computers work with
- data organized into rows and columns. The "Relational" applications
that exist today have to deal with this mismatch with the real world
and a lot of complexity is generated in doing so.
Pro<DOC/> is a Technology - designed to respond to this fundamental reality.
The Oct 2005 issue of ACM Queue featured a cover article titled
“Managing semi-structured data”. The article concluded -
Semi-structured data exists all
around us, yet
often we are unable to process and use it. The high cost of processing
information with existing techniques - because of the current
requirement of tight (inflexible) coupling of data, schemas, and code -
creates a natural barrier for using this information. …
Enabling
semi-structured information processing that is flexible, cheap, simple
and effective is an important goal. We are still at day one.
Semi-structured data does exist all around us. Let us look at it again
from the perspective of the three Main applications that are a part of
the Pro-Active suite.
