There is still a need for software with determined behaviour.

Focus of software research seems to have shifted to self learning software.

However, there is still a need for business applications solving needs in a traditional way by deterministic software, software with determined behaviour.

Rethink solutions for business software needs.

The solutions that traditional (business) software systems offer, are often far from optimal, because of the way software is made.

The restriction that the software is created manually, limits the practical possibilities.

Using mainstream technology, and using the mainstream way of writing software, no attempts are done to solve common similar needs of companies in their generality. The Datatweb technology does.

Also, being able to use the powerful technology of meta programming, solutions to the kind of needs 'solved' by traditional business software can be rethought and rebuilt from scratch.

A meta framework as solution for general requirements.

General needs of companies have been recognised and a meta framework has been built with Datatweb technology.

A Datatweb solution consists of (a) framework(s) with a meta framework on top.

This combination allows to generate an unlimited number of applications.

Just as for a software framework, the meta framework can be refined for specific requirements.

To address other needs, other frameworks and meta frameworks can be built if the offered solution doesn't fit the needs.

Another way to look at data.

A classical way to structure data is by classifying data in entities with explicitly defined relationships between the different types of entities and their properties.

Retrieving data occurs in a sophisticated way by exactly specifying the kind of entities and the related entities one seeks, and the conditions these entities and their properties must satisfy.

On the internet, arbitrary non related data can be found merely by entering words to seek for. This technology is called a 'web search engine'.

The synergy of Datatweb of these two data centered technologies is in two ways :

Data structured by entity relationships can be found by a web search engine, merely by searching for words with non specified meaning.

Arbitrary non structured data can be coupled to relational data, data structured by entity relationships. Entities can be found by searching for the non structured data coupled to it. Non structured data can be found by searching for words of the structured data it is coupled to.

Another way to look at data opens the door to look in another way at applications.

The synergy of these two data centered technologies results in a huge simplification in the usage of business applications.

In general, the complexity to use business applications is proportional to the complexity of its entity relationship model.

How complicated the underlying data model may be, the complexity of a Datatweb application is experienced by users as being as simple as doing a web engine search.

Making such applications is made possible because Datatweb applications are not made manually. To make such applications manually is not financially feasible.

Working with business applications should have the same intuitiveness as all activities done on a smartphone or a tablet. Datatweb establishes this intuitiveness.

Everybody at every level of a company is capable, willing and even motivated to use the company business applications on a continuous basis during his or her company activities.

The feeling that one is not working with a business application is amplified by the novelty in a Datatweb application that there is no fixed entry point in an application.

Users can use a Datatweb application unaware of the structure of the application. It feels like she is just searching for information, in the same way when she is looking for information on the web.

A Datatweb application is not experienced as an application but also feels more like using your email.

As important as the ease of usage, is that Datatweb facilitates triggering the right actions that fit in the daily working of the company.

Process management software today.

The twenty-first century reality is that in a highly competitive environment companies are forced to adopt flexibly adaptable processes to survive or to remain competitive. This is a need current business software apparently cannot fulfill.

A way to improve the productivity of business data.

What is needed to solve business software problems from today :

A system where all structured data, the database information, can be linked to the contextual information of mails and documents.

Coupling arbitrary data to relational data enables a way to offer a solution to use all company data in an effective way.

Everybody must be capable of accessing 'all' data without having to follow courses about how to use applications to access different types of data. This requires applications not feeling as applications, but with the intuitive usage of a web search engine.

These applications must be easily obtainable, not by expensive, risky projects.

It must be possible to put emphasis on the modeling of the relationships on all levels of operation in a company and simply generate the applications from it.

Datatweb accomplishes all of this.

Datatweb solves all the described data problems by elaborating on a few principles. This is made possible by an innovative technology to automate software creation.

Find a way to reconcile informal data with 'entity relationship' data, find a way to make applications easy to use, independent of the complexity of the database model.

After making applications easy to use, you can take away the feeling that one is working with an application by introducing a notification mechanism and removing the fixed entry point of an application.

Offering all this, people need not be aware they are working in a structured system, they simply send stuff to each other. Stuff that happens to fit the company structures and helps realising the company activities in a flexible but reliable way.

A tool to effectively support responsibilisation of company employees.

Company environments are not optimally productive in the interaction between employees.

By taking into account human psychology, productivity can be enhanced by offering software that fits this psychology : psychologically, commitment of employees to their work is higher if self-development of employees is supported.

The best productivity results are achieved by diminishing hierarchy levels and making employees fully responsible for achieving their part in realizing the goals of the company.

Implementing this philosophy effectively, requires augmenting the 'knowledge' of a company's employees and a mechanism to help trigger tasks at the right moment.

Datatweb facilitates self management of people.

Datatweb enhances productivity of company collaborators by offering a tool with a view at company processes that fits the way people like to work.

Datatweb implements self regulating company processes by offering collaborators relevant knowledge for all situations and allowing people to steer actions in a motivated way.

Company efficiency is enhanced by facilitating self management of specialists in all domains in a company.

Datatweb Productivity applications to facilitate collaborations.

To unify people to realise company goals together, a structure is needed where all activities fit in. The nature of the activities of all company collaborators differ widely. Also the nature of the activities of one person can differ widely.

Instead of trying to model the working of a company in one model, it is much more effective to identify models at different conceptual viewpoints and sub models at different hierarchical levels, or more down to earth by modeling sub activities of the company.

For each model, the workings are described in its own terminology. Different entities and its collaborations are identified. People may participate in the workings of different models.

For each model a Datatweb Productivity application can be generated that facilitate people to collaborate effectively and to realise company goals by effective collaboration between people and between people and machine.

Handle conceptual nuances by refining the meta framework just like any software framework, but at a different abstraction level.

The same Datatweb meta application framework can generate applications that at first sight differ widely but when abstracting the required specifications, they do nearly the same, only the model differs.

The terminology of concepts differ widely in models, the naming of the used entities and their relationships have no resemblance at all.

Taking familiar applications as example : abstracting the requirements for a ticketing system to manage issues in software applications and a sales application for sales people on the road, a high percentage is covered by a common meta application framework.

Even at a higher conceptual level, not every concept in business applications can be covered in a uniform way for different concrete situations, or different concepts must be introduced.

Incompatible differences can be handled by refining a meta framework the same way it is done in any software framework, but at a different abstraction level.