The Future of IT
For more than a half-century, information technology users have been forced to depend on computer experts to translate their information needs into working data processing systems. With the advent of virtually unlimited storage
capacity and worldwide instant connectivity, the barriers that separated real world information and computer data are disappearing. Using XML as the base, complete user information can now be processed directly by computer systems.
At ZONAR, we envision a future in which no one knows or cares about database schema, rows and columns, records and fields, syntax and format, SQL or XML. In this future, people and computer-based systems will handle information in its native form -- as information. Users will design their own reports by specifying each of the actual information elements they wish to see; not from a list of database fields, but from a comprehensive dictionary of items relevant to their business. Merely placing the selected item on their report, will trigger the necessary processing to display the appropriate information.
This future will see the explosion of the science of Information Engineering; not as a synonym for data processing, but as a discipline that deals directly with information structures and dimensions, transforms and
mathematics. Organizations will actually manage their information inventories and flows through direct participation by all of their information users. New information elements will be created, defined, processed and exchanged
as quickly as their need is recognized. This world will operate in the common language of information, transcending the diversity of spoken and written dialects.
As we progress into the true Information Age, the processing
that now must be developed in each application will become embodied in the information packages themselves.
This is where we are going -- the only question is, "How quickly?"
ZONAR's I3 Technology can help make this vision of the future a reality.