| Into the MyST | Thoughts and ideas about MySmartChannels by Bill French and F. Andy Seidl, Co-founders of MyST Technology Partners. | |
| | | January 30, 2004 | | I'll be speaking at this event. | |
Looks like a great
line-up of speakers and topics. Stop by and heckle. ;-)
"You’ll be able
to network with the most successful innovators delivering the expertise you’ll
need to capitalize on blogging within your organization. You’ll walk away with a
clear understanding of what it takes to get results from blogging and how to
launch a blogging program." | | |
| | January 13, 2004 | | But if you wade through the article (well written I might add) you'll find some interesting perspectives about MyST Technology Partners. | |
Q: Can you describe in
detail your current work?
A:
Sure - the MyST platform is a very abstract space for solving many types of
IT-related problems. It provides an abstract model for persisting associative
meta-data. What differentiates MyST from any Web services enabled data store is
the object model - it embraces topic-map concepts (XTM) through an association
object that deepens the possibility of managing complex information sets as
ontology rather than a rigid taxonomy. In so doing, we recognized the importance
of business terms and conversations because information systems fundamentally
lack a context for describing and organizing business content. The MyST platform
embraces information objects as a collection of structured symbols (i.e.,
topics) in a sea of mostly unstructured business content (i.e.,
occurrences).
To demonstrate some of the
benefits of such a platform, we decided to build MySmartChannels - a demo
application built on the MyST platform. MySmartChannels enables individuals and
organizations to easily create and organize pools of information around the MyST
Web services platform, providing a variety of features including, secure
weblogging, intelligent searching, automatic Office XP smart tag generation,
news feed generation, and much more. Users can publish and organize thoughts,
ideas, and writings about any topic that's important to their areas of
expertise. Colleagues, co-workers, and business partners can be invited to
subscribe or collaborate on relevant topics.
Our platform elevates the
role of knowledge-workers through an open and flexible environment for creating
highly focused and accessible information about their specific work topics. This
enables management and employees to recognize and naturally promote expertise
within the organization. The objective - your company can grow in terms of
business intellect, awareness of rapidly changing information, and the velocity
with which informed decisions can be made.
All of this is possible, of
course, with combinations of other technologies - the difference with our
platform is the agility factor; the openness and flexibility of creating and
purposing content for any need without fully understanding or comprehending
future IT requirements. Here are a few examples:
This interview content was
created as a collection of discrete information objects in MySmartChannels. If I
wanted, I could immediately share it as raw XML.
Alternatively, I could host it as a secure RSS feed. Don't like RSS version 2.0? Here it is in RSS
1.0. I can
also deliver it as an ECHO
feed, or a
Microsoft Office Smart
Tag
document, or a Microsoft Sharepoint webpart component.
The point - agility - the
MyST platform provides a formidable array of architectural possibilities without
any additional development. | | |
| | January 10, 2004 | | A paper by Sensime Research | |
This
paper includes two points that seem worthy of deeper
consideration
"A new
series of open standards have been evolved with the help of both
commercial and significant developer community input, heavily influenced by the
success of the open-source funding model that brought us Linux."
The MyST
platform is about leveraging open standards as much as is it about new and
innovative methodologies for rapidly creating integrated IT solutions. We use
the term 'platform' to describe the clean separations between presentation
layers (model, style, scheme), business logic, and persistence.
"A new
breed of agile and business savvy technology companies that have
invested wisely to create products based on open standards, without the bloated
corporate overheads of existing massively staffed proprietary EAI
providers."
To add clarity to our own business
model, MyST and MySmartChannels are designed as a federation of platform
services that provide great agility. In this loosely-coupled architecture, MyST
applications are readily available to augment and support existing [bloated]
systems to meet shifting requirements and demands. | | |
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