Tuesday, March 7, 2006Welcome to the Metabstract-It Blog!Metabstract-It is a marketing blog. It’s intended to make the products built on the Metabstract engine and the company behind it “approachable”. It's about doing something cool Metabstract is in the business of bring down the cost of application software for business. If you have been involved in developing software applications, you know about the time and expense envolved in creating something of unique value. Many companies and organizations are in business to solve this problem, many by developing tools or techniques to improving software productivity. While most of these tools or techniques are sound and have merit, the results have been incremental (as opposed to radical) improvements to cost and time savings. Our approach is to avoid software development as much as possible by creating the “be all” reusable software component. And while the concept isn’t new (for example the DoD STARS program of years ago), making it work is. It's about owning a word Simply put, Metabstract is about the “abstracting business applications using metadata”. At the center is the Metabstract “Business” Component (or MBC), an application building block that has two major characteristics. First, it can change attributes at run-time, and second, it can be related to any other MBC. Both these concepts will be explained more in future posts. LivingDocs.com Finally, it’s one thing to say it; it’s another to prove it. Putting together a proposal for a complex RFP with a sizable payoff is one of those unique business situations that must be experienced to be appreciated. Like producing a movie, where it is never truly finished but eventually released, a large proposal is also never finished, but eventually submitted. A proposal application able to handle any RFP would be great, but by thier very intent, these complex RFP are describing requests for new concepts, configurations, systems and organizations that have never been built before. Creating an application tailored to handle these new requirements would take more time then the proposal time itself, and so instead, generalized utilities, tools, and off-the-self applications are strung together, making the best of a confusing situation. It shouldn’t have to be that way. The Living RFP Knowledge Tree is a real world example of how the Metabstract approach can handle the “One off” nature of large RFP’s. In the coming months I look forward to elaborating on the opportunities presented when the solution is to “Metabstract It”. Metabstract Dan posted @ 08:55 PM MST [link] [525 Comments ] |
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