Hans Rath

The key issue of the information society is getting the right information in the right context to the right person at the right time.This statement is true if you're an executive going over the last balance, an analyst gathering the current parameters of the stock market, an officer collecting the facts for a report, a student looking for the latest research results, or simply a traveler interested in some flight information. The statement is also true if you're searching the Web, intranet, Document Management system, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, or Product Data Management (PDM) system. We have to search for information not because it's absent, but because we're drowning in too much of it, and the amounts are continuously growing. The information available doubles every two to three years with decreasing intervals. We're used to queries with thousands ... (more)