Deployment management , enabling rapid deployment of locally tested charac-ters to highly available web servers as well as review and data warehousing functions for both analytic and refinement purposes . The information model is implemented in a re-lational database that fully specifies , relates and allows inquiry and validation of authored infor-mation . Additionally , a complete web application programming interface ( API ) powers the Roundtable application , providing a transactional framework for data operations as well as user privilege enforcement , but which also allows application expansion . The information model also serves to decouple the authoring representation from the data struc-tures necessary to drive dialogue behavior at runtime .