Abstract
In today's Information Technology environment, the programming backlog has continued to increase in dramatic proportions. That growth is to such a degree that adding more programmers is simply not the answer even if they could be acquired. This paper will present a concept that focuses on drawing the users into the report-producing arena. Fundamentally, the approach redefines the application architecture in a perspective that reduces the technical aspects of the relational tables in favor of table definitions to which laymen can better relate. Simply stated the application tables are recreated in 'event oriented', 'functional tables'. This approach dramatically increases the number of tables defined and will cause relational purists to raise objections. The paper will discuss the concept, its initial implementation and the experiences to date.