Document Management. For storing and managing documents, such as company procedures, drawings, designs and legal documents, and in fields such as GIS, CAD and CASE.

• Provide the capability for work-in-progress to be for longer periods of time.
• Provide multi-user workflow capabilities, such as;
  • passing work from one user to another
  • ability to view another users work
  • combining multiple users work
• Provide the capability to check the integrity of work and define the integrity rules using the Gnosis Business Rule Manager.
• Provide capability to manage business decision making process, by utilising the Gnosis Transaction capabilities of Decision Points containing multiple Alternatives.
• Provide user definable Save Points, which can be rolled back to or used to view changes as at the time the save point was created.

E-Commerce. Gnosis can help in managing business to business transactions between multiple parties electronically, and ensure the business requirements & data integrity of transactions are met.

• Provide the capability for the transaction to be worked on for an extended period of time.
• Protects from interruption by saving changes as the user works, and can be resumed later.
• Provide the capability of many parties to work together under one Gnopsis Transaction, by
  • passing work from one party to another
  • allowing multiple parties to contribute to the same transaction tree
• Provide the ability to define business rules for transaction completion, which can be checked as the user works.
• Provide the ability to define business rules for transaction reversal, which can be checked when the user wishes to reverse a transaction.
• Interface programming can be simplified by not having to manage the transaction and data integrity.
• Simplify issues realted to transactional data security, resilience and availability by storing all transactional data in the database.

Application and Web Development. Gnosis offers simplification of your application and web development, reduced bugs and improved enforcement of business rules and data integrity.

• Applications require significantly less code, as the application does not need to manage the transaction. Applications are far less buggy and flakey and can be directed to more powerful interface functionality, because the application does not need to carry the complexities of managing the database transaction.
• Allows complex and monolithic applications to be broken down into multiple smaller and simpler applications. A large application can be replaced with a number of smaller applicatons, thus simplifying usability, development and testing. All resulting applications are still able to participate in the same transaction.
• May remove the need for an expensive and complicating business middleware tier.

Gnosis Client Server Comparison

• Provides powerful user definable error messaging, to replace the poor error messages typical of relational database constraints.
• Simplifies the code executing on the browser, as work-in-progress is saved on the server and available to the web server. Work can be resumed after disconnection, or at a later date, rather than lost and required to be reentered.
• Allows for consolidation of Web interface code to exist on the Web Server. Gnosis reduces the need for complicated code executing at the web server or browser that controls the transaction.