The RDH Group of companies focus on the integration of building science engineering, architecture, construction management, and risk assessment services for the building enclosure on new construction projects and existing buildings. We are industry leaders in British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon.

PrimeObjects teams up with RDH to build and deliver a world-class knowledge-driven Building Asset Management System. The solution focuses on assisting building owners with all aspects of planning for the long term stewardship of their building(s). This typically includes assessment of the current condition of all building systems, review of operational costs, development of maintenance and renewals plans, determination and analysis of costs, reserve fund planning, and assistance in the implementation of maintenance and renewals programs.

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a web service provided by Amazon to help 3rd party applications or end users store their files online by leveraging the same highly scalable, reliable, fast, inexpensive data storage infrastructure that Amazon uses to run its own global network of web sites. For more information please visit http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
 
PrimeObjects SaaS (Software as a Service) Platform supports and integrates Amazon S3 services. By leveraging the Amazon S3 service, the users of PrimeObjects don’t need to worry about even millions of concurrent accesses to their published files. At the same time, it allows PrimeObjects support terabytes or petabytes of files without expensive hardware upgrade.
 
By default, users of PrimeObject Online Business Management Softwares and Services (http://www.primeobjects.com) will have their files saved in Amazon S3 storage service to gain the highest performance. The on-premise or partner-hosted edition of PrimeObjects Softwares and Serviceshas the Amazon S3 integration turned off, but the system administrator can easily turn on the Amazon S3 integration by following a few simple steps.

The on-premise and partner-hosted business management softwares and services buildt on PrimeObjects SaaS (Software as a Service) Platform have 3 document and file storage options. They are Local File Storage, Database Storage and Amazon S3 Storage.

PrimeObjects SaaS (Software as a Service) Platform comes with a Command Engine Web Service API (the API). The API consumes any function call through a common generic web service interface. Developers in any level can successfully make a web service call to the API after the training for 10 minutes. The API can be consumed by any programming language, system and platform by supporting three major protocals JSON, XML and SOAP.

JSON Protocol
The JSON protocol is ideal for an AJAX application, which submits requests from the end user’s browser and processes JSON responses. The JSON interface can return JSON responses in three different formats:
    * Raw
    * Callback
    * Function

XML Protocol
If you are working on Silverlight/Flash, or any applications that support XML but do not support SOAP, the XML protocol may be an appropriate choice. The only limitation on the XML interface that it is an HTTP GET interface, in which the length of the requested URL is limited by the maximum URL length.

SOAP Protocol
The SOAP protocol provides strong types, a request/response object model and is able to submit a complex request without the limitation of maximum URL length. It is most appropriate for those who wok on desktop or server applications with high level languages that have native SOAP library support (such as C#, VB or Java).

"I especially like the last paragragh of this article from Patrick Steward. It makes me to think about how to blur the knowledge inside the organization with the knowledge outside the organization, integrate the knowledge inside the mind of the employees and that of the customers, partners and even competitors, and organize the knowledge in various formats all in a well designed universal knowledge management system"

Original article is copied below for your reference.

Knowledge management is a technique of efficient assembly, alteration, safekeeping as well as management of information within organizations, alongside systems created to make the most from that knowledge. It references particularly to tools and methods made to protect data and information compiled by individuals who make up the company. It is at once a software bazaar as well as a area of consultancy work related tofields such as competitive intelligence. A huge area of knowledge management has to do with knowledge that is not elementary to digitally codify, including individual experiences.

The procedure of knowledge management additionally is known by a few other terms in its different developmental processes. One example is ‘corporate learning’ and it possesses these basic aims: distinguishing, collecting and systematizing current knowledge and allowing the creation of new information. Knowledge management has endured since civilization began, being in the guise of discussions, brainstorming meetings or in more formal methods including apprenticeships and qualified teaching training programs.

However, it’s only today that knowledge management is becoming integrated as a legitimate business practice, and because of that it has seen the invoking of certain knowledge and information technology methods, the establishment of intranets within corporate settings and so forth. This all are a part of a compulsion to enact knowledge management systems.

Knowledge management systems comprise of a heavily circulated hypermedia method for the categorizing of knowledge, encouragement of creativity and the seizure, storing and giving away of that expertise and awareness. The word hypermedia is utilized to name a medium through which audio, video and text collide to make a lateral mode of data storage in addition to broadcasting. In other words, the phrase “hypermedia” might be utilized extension of the term ‘hypertext’.

For instance, the Web is an case in point of hypermedia, but the same cannot be said for of a movie on a Digital Video Disc. The Internet is utilized as a place where which global data is held, used and sent through computers which are attached to the World Wide Web. The net is a area that can be efficiently used to implement knowledge management systems effectively, just as the office intranet system can in addition be used. On it’s own, it is not a knowledge management system. Although, it can be utilized to keep and retrieve a knowledge management system.