Φ Pardalis Data Ownership Blog

Complex parts of supply chains (those generally comprised of small businesses with 1-10 employees) are not providing customers or government regulators with trustworthy information about product safety.

A critical problem is that current document management technologies are not designed to help integrate the sharing of trustworthy information among the multiple participants of fragmented chains. Data integration technologies are being developed for the emerging Semantic Web but with very little understanding as to how complex chains work (and don't work).

Pardalis has specifically patented and developed a metadata management technology for virtually integrating complex supply chains. The critical problem is solved by advancing the capabilities of relational server database management systems toward a Semantic Web emerging within a 'Cloud' of data centers. And Pardalis' approach is distinct enough to be conceptualized as an Ownership Web platform for drawing small businesses to the emerging Semantic Web.

Holcombe is an attorney who formed Pardalis Inc. in 1994 and directed successful efforts by the company to develop, market and support software for the inventorying and management of hazardous chemical information sought by environmental, health and safety managers throughout the United States and Canada.

To introduce and promote the granular sharing of information along complex supply chains, in 2000 Holcombe envisioned and co-invented the now U.S. and internationally patented Common Point Authoring™ system, an early metadata Saas platform first deployed in 2005.