The Web has provided a framework for easily sharing multivariant information as well as hyperlinks and URLs to navigate through this information, but the experience is mostly visual and labor intensive. Open application service frameworks will greatly improve upon this situation by providing greater automation and flexibility, but the other essential ingredient is an open information framework. Open information frameworks are the means for organizing and modeling business information, including interrelationships, and the meaning and significance of this information. Businesses have generally employed rather primitive information models, such as files, documents, folders and tables. These models have limited utility because they limit the ability to represent business realities.
Location moves companies one step closer to modeling the reality of their businesses.
For example, let's say a business has valuable information buried in files, folders, documents and tables scattered around the enterprise and wants to get at this information more easily. If much of the information has some form of location content, adding a location application server to the corporate warehouse exploits the location properties of warehouse holdings and provides location-based access to these data. Likewise, the location application server makes it easy to exploit business information holdings and keys on location properties to generate reports and maps with actionable business information. Users can employ location as an organizing principle in their business. Location for Business Advantage Location is a unifying theme in business.