In 1999, two very creative database guys from Silicon Valley, fed up with seeing failed IT projects and squandered megabucks, decided to create a whole new way of managing all of the information resources and knowledge assets a business needs to be successful in the digital age.

They created a flexible Information Management platform that would allow business managers to deploy information across the enterprise within a single integrated environment. The goal was to enable companies to rapidly react to the many changing demands on their information structures and workflow, without having to rewrite their applications.

The result is a flexible, cost-effective technology that goes far beyond traditional content management, enabling you to build successful and enduring information applications. Based on an innovative information architecture management engine, all of your portals, extranets, libraries, catalogues, and other information-centric applications can now float on a common layer of metadata that is easily managed by non-technical business experts.

This enables companies to make fundamental changes to information applications as the business vision evolves, without incurring expensive engineering costs and without the risk of project failure.

Today, that technology drives success at leading Fortune 500 companies

ClarityBridge Information Management Solutions are based on the StageOne™ development platform, a flexible information management environment that helps businesses optimise the value of their entire range of online assets.

StageOne includes a library of pre-engineered but remarkably customizable components: applications, widgets and modules created specifically to match a wide range of Information Management requirements. This allows for the very rapid development of new solutions and enables our customers to change, adapt and modify existing solutions to match changing demands and commercial pressures.

StageOne supports global information portals and provides a toolkit and a control panel that enables business subject-matter experts and non-technical administrators to manage a company’s underlying information architecture-without breaking the applications built on StageOne.

It is designed to allow new technologies and new digital concepts to be integrated into the applications as needs evolve. This ensures that StageOne is a sound long-term technology investment which will allow a business to grow and adapt.

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ClarityBridge Information Management Solutions are based on principles of Extremely Data-Driven Information Engineering (EDDIE), a database-driven design methodology which allows us to manage your complete information architecture.

EDDIE is an entirely new approach to portal development which brings huge advantages over more traditional -and less successful- approaches.

Using EDDIE methods to store your complete information architecture in the StageOne control panel, ClarityBridge Information Management Solutions build a flexible data model that manages not just content and business objects, but the metadata used to describe those objects.

By placing all your business objects, interrelationships, workflow, and organizing principles under one roof, in a graphical control panel that business users can understand, the operational logic of a portal or information system becomes much easier to model. And because data can be managed flexibly, EDDIE-based applications are much easier to maintain and adapt to ever-changing business requirements.

The result is faster functional prototypes, more reliable development, and a data-rich model of the business Information Architecture that can be used across all your web applications and portals.

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All ClarityBridge Information Management Solutions are engineered and delivered using a fully Agile development process. This means that, all the way through the development process, users and management are able to test the solution for functionality and usability. This process ensures three very important things,

• The final solutions will deliver exactly what the users need.
  
• The final solution includes all the "new ideas" which have become clear through the development and testing process.
  
• The users are familiar with the operation and capabilities of the delivered system, thus easing the transition to production release and minimising training requirements.

The ClarityBridge functional prototyping method means that user testing on real data and functioning systems can begin very early in the development process

ClarityBridge Solutions are capable of being updated by business experts themselves without special IT skills. This means that the delivered solution can be maintained and updated often with no additional coding necessary. Our solutions rely on iterative collaboration and communication during the project, supported by a platform that lets the business experts participate in the development process, so the final result is a successful system.

StageOne is offered as a hosted Software-as-a-Service development framework designed to store your company's information architecture as database-managed objects in an intuitive control panel. The hosted option, able to power even remote systems, means a highly-secure, anytime-anywhere access that is virtually ‘IT Free’.

Whether you install StageOne on your own server or take advantage of our SaaS application hosting, your content and data are never held hostage. StageOne will publish anything from a micro-site to an entire corporate web site to your choice of web server. You can request data (in standard formats like MS-Access or SQLServer backup) and files at any time.

We can build an application to suit your specific requirements, extend it as you grow, and integrate any external applications you might need to complete your information management environment. We also host client applications for fully turnkey support.

If your application relies on integration, it doesn’t matter what technology is supported by your IT infrastructure: StageOne can power ColdFusion, Java, ASP.Net, and LAMP architectures, using any combination of web services or integration techniques.

You can even use your own engineers to manage your StageOne environment. Because it is so data-centric, your StageOne implementation can be extended by virtually any web developer.