Benefits of truenumbers
When data is composed individual self-describing values called truenumbers, problems vanish and opportunities appear.
What Truenumbers Does Better
Data integration - Any kind of data represented in a common, intelligible language that grows with your requirements
Data portability - Truenumbers are individual facts you can take out of the database and use in documents, web pages and programming without loss of integrity or fear of tampering. Like this one right here 44.01 (go ahead, click on it).
Compliance and security - Truenumbers are immutable. Their unique identity ensures traceability and integrity. Every truenumber has its meaning and identity on board, allowing verification and validation with one click. Secure data even in insecure environments.
Analytics, AI and Machine Learning - Because truenumber facts put more knowledge in the database, in one language across all domains, analysis has more to chew on. Results can go back into truenumbers too, allowing continuous enhancement of information.
Security
Your systems of record may be secure, but once data comes out to play in spreadsheets, applications or documents, it is vulnerable.
Using hash and encryption technology, truenumbers simply can't be tampered with or spoofed and can be locally validated as being exactly what they say they are, no matter where they travel. And a truenumber's origin and provenance can be verified on the blockchain as well.
Data Quality
The picture on the right shows the number 341 in a spreadsheet, labeled as the wattage of a certain light bulb, but how do we know that's what it really is? Was it entered from scratch? Copied from a spec sheet? Was it copied correctly? In the right units?
Every truenumber carries its own meaning and provenance with it, so it can prove its own validity and tell you what it means - level of data quality never before seen in any enterprise.
Productivity
For system development, building an initial truenumber vocabulary for the data is simple and domain focused. Unlike object or ontology modeling science projects, it's a down-to-earth activity even non-technical end users can accomplish, and vocabularies can always be extended even during system operation avoiding disruptive revision cycles.
On the desktop, truenumber users on the web or in MS-Office organically build a growing, secure repository of the terms and data they need, with full traceability making user-created solutions simpler and with better data governance than complex and costly enterprise silos and dashboards.
With Truenumbers, you accomplish more and leave behind more reuseable assets while IT cost and governance risks decrease.
Governance
Data governance means managing the availability, usability, integrity and security of data used in an enterprise. Truenumbers makes it easy because these are intrinsic properties of every truenumber. It makes them easy to audit as well, because exactly what data was used is self-evident when it's a truenumber.
The bottom line is that a high degree of governance is achieved just by using truenumbers in your processes, and that explicit governance processes become far easier to implement with less overhead and better compliance.