CIPS Connections (full article)

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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 <A style="text-underline: none" href="../../mysmartchannels/public/blog/14494?model=none" target=_blank>XML</A>. Alternatively, I could host it as a secure <A style="text-underline: none" href="../../mysmartchannels/public/rss/14494" target=_blank>RSS feed</A>. Don't like RSS version 2.0? Here it is in <A style="text-underline: none" href="../../mysmartchannels/public/rss/14494?variant=rss10" target=_blank>RSS 1.0</A>. I can also deliver it as an <A style="text-underline: none" href="../../mysmartchannels/public/channel/14494?model=echo" target=_blank>ECHO feed</A>, or a Microsoft Office <A style="text-underline: none" href="../../mysmartchannels/public/mostl/14494" target=_blank>Smart Tag</A> document, or a Microsoft Sharepoint <A style="text-underline: none" href="../../mysmartchannels/public/channel/14494?model=webpart" target=_blank>webpart component</A>.   The point - agility - the MyST platform provides a formidable array of architectural possibilities without any additional development. 9 application/xml Bill French interview CIPS Connections (full article) Interview by Stephen Ibaraki, I.S.P. http://www.stephenibaraki.com/cips/jan04/bfre.asp false Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; MyIE2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) 66.17.237.47 66.17.237.47 bfrench false true false false true 190014 false false true false false false true 214 blog blogsite/MySTHome/web