A life-cycle model indicating phases, activities, and products relevant for a KBS project. The passing years saw many additional ingredients to the methodology. Practical use of KADS showed that many KBS projects failed because of a technology-push approach. An organization can only successfully implement KBS technology if both the system's role and its potential impact on the organization are explicated and agreed upon before and during system development. Thus, the introduction of methods and techniques for organizational analysis signaled a major advance.
Organizational analysis aims at creating an application-pull situation.
This approach provides some assurance that the system will actually solve a problem within the organization. This factored greatly into the products' success. As early as 1986, the Dutch firm Bolesian Systems exploited the first version of KADS and refined it into their in-house method for KBS development. They built a considerable number of commercial systems, mostly in the financial sector. Many banks and insurance companies in The Netherlands have systems, developed with a variant of KADS, in daily use for assessing loan and mortgage applications.