TopQuadrant is a premier provider of services, methods and tools that enable enterprises to bridge the gap between business strategy and successful solution implementations. To address the major obstacles to success in building system solutions and technology capabilities, TopQuadrant has developed unique methods, knowledge assets and tools:

• Solution Envisioning, a scenario-driven approach to experiencing a future system through analogies and examples using a Database of Capability Cases.
• Capability Cases, IT solution patterns expressed in a business context with stories of successful use, applicable technologies and leading practices.
• TopDrawer™, a comprehensive, proprietary environment for storing, accessing and dynamically working with Capability Cases

Ralph Hodgson, Co-founder and Executive Partner of TopQuadrant, knew that authoring, accessing and presenting a catalog of Capability Cases required a platform that would enable TopQuadrant to build a sophisticated knowledge repository quickly. It was also critical that the platform readily enable additions and evolution of the knowledge base to keep in step with the changing dynamics of business and today's explosion of technology options.

"Sentences' associative model had clear advantages over other candidates for our exploratory creation of a set of concepts and relationships rich enough to express the complex dimensions of business challenges together with matching technology solution options. It made a task that would have otherwise involved some daunting data modeling and programming fairly straightforward and intuitive."

"Beyond its own, intuitive Explorer model interface, Sentences also provides convenient Query mechanisms combined with the option to export structured information as XML. We take advantage of this to transform the information using standard mechanisms and render it as knowledge in graphic form as web pages within our TopDrawer™ tool."

With its mission to help clients access the leading edge of proven expertise, methods and tools for envisioning and architecting technology solutions, TopQuadrant is a complementary Professional Services partner for Lazysoft and Sentences whose associative database model is a robust vehicle for sophisticated, next generation, knowledge intensive applications.

a Capability Case as displayed in TopDrawer

a screenshot of the underlying representation of the same Capability Case within Sentences