80% of an Entreprise
Information is unstructured data (not stored in a structured
database). This information is contained in documents scattered
accross the entreprise, sometimes gathered in an Entreprise Content
Management System. The advantage of the eReader Device is that it can
be used as a super viewer for all those documents. Unfortunately in
order to access this information, one should know where to find it.
Therefore, as an Entreprise Information is much larger than Personal
Information, Business Objects need to be augmented by meta-data and
crawled by a search engine. So as on the Web Tier, Data Objects can
be files (Spreadsheets, presentations, office documents, structured
files). The difference with the Web Tier is that there are much more
file formats as Entreprise applications are more specialized.
Therefore prorietary formats have to be converted or specific apps
need to be developped.
When the information is structured (in databases, in CRM, in ERPs...) a new application integration has to be provided such that the eReader Device can access and display it in an optimized way. |
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