As I (mis)understand it, you shovel all your corporate data from a variety
of sources (sales, purchasing,
production, memos, R&D etc.) into one humongous repository of data with a
view to asking the seething
mass of data questions that benefit from the totality of information in the
repository. Prior to
putting the stuff there it is "cleaned up". Presumably harmonised into a
homogenous format of some
format. Sure sounds like XML + related standards (specifically SDQL) to me.
Sean Mc Grath
sean at digitome dot com