the software complexity Problem

The cost/performance of computer hardware and networks has improved over 1,000 times during the past 50 years. In sharp contrast, software cost/performance has improved only about 10 times, at best, while implementations need to address a more challenging set of technical considerations. Software constraints have clearly become the limiting factor in supporting business needs. 

Nowhere is the impact of software limitations more apparent than the branch of software that provides database applications to support knowledge work inside and across organizations. Data, processes, and interrelated know-how continuously evolve. Strategies and operational plans change over time and drive new requirements. Software systems are supposed to tie it all together and adapt to the increasing web of interrelated transactions and know-how. However, growing complexity challenges fundamental assumptions about software stability and defies enabling action at a level that drives results. Most often than not, software regresses to clerical functions that merely document the results of your work, rather than helping you optimize its execution. 

Resolving the Complexity Barrier

The ROBUST technology addresses the root cause of the software complexity problem, namely the need to manually program and later process all potential permutations and combinations of data and programming instructions required for alignment of actions with strategy and for optimizing outcomes. Current systems capture data and programming instructions, manage them separately, and are blind to their inter-related use. In contrast, the core ROBUST technology captures the inter-relationships among pieces of data and the know-how expected to govern their operations. It then guides and tracks their actual use, and automatically updates the evolving inter-relationships. 

The need for manual programming of potentially billions permutations and combinations is completely eliminated, and the ROBUST transactional engine is optimized to process inter-related transactions at a speed that is 1,000 times higher than comparable methods. Thus, ROBUST applications can be built and evolve at the pace that business changes. Faster run-time performance enables a new generation of Strategic Action Systems that can run in real-time and make a difference in business results. 

Software capabilities are no longer the limiting factor, and robust costs and performance can unlock the trapped value in a broad range of industries and applications.

ROBUST… a new way to build software that breaks the complexity barrier.