In today’s world, companies operate on a global scale and the volume of operational data is growing, not shrinking - resulting in increased management costs and the need to disseminate important information both quickly and efficiently.   The concept was simple but the budget and resources to execute this need are typically scarce. Companies want to be able to capture and integrate the data and information associated with those projects in a centralized database and then share that data and information with hundreds or thousands of people in real-time, whenever and wherever they happened to be.  In this way, managers could leverage and re-use common business data far more efficiently than they could with other traditional desktop tools.