Background
Gensym needed a product to simplify advanced monitoring and control systems based on generating events from statistical analysis of historical and current data, boolean and fuzzy logic, and to automate corrective actions.
Business Problem
Customers needed a tool that would shorten project implementation times and reduce implementation schedule risk. They also wanted a tool that could be used by domain experts, not just programmers.
Solution
We productized the GDA technology. It’s graphical language allowed domain experts to focus on the application logic rather than on programming in some text-based language. Please see the GDA white papers)
Results
GDA became Gensym’s most successful product after G2, selling about 1500 copies and generating 15% of company revenue.
The picture below shows an example screen shot. The graphical blocks are the “source code” for the logic and actions. Text fields are only comments. This view happens to show an operator message display as well, although the operator interface did not require looking at the logic diagrams.
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