Applications

Most corporations seem to be interested in the profit-making and entertainment aspects of multimedia rather than intellectual applications of hypermedia such as learning systems, group decision support systems, brainstorming systems etc.

• The hypermedia paradigm can be extended to many traditional information management systems as well as emerging complex information systems. Some of the application areas that can be greatly improved by incorporating hypermedia technology include on-line documentation, electronic encyclopedias, interactive kiosks, learning systems, idea processing environments, decision support systems, collaborative systems, issue based information systems, software engineering, and medical information systems.
  
  
• Many corporations suffer from the lack of a comprehensive view of their data/information due to the proliferation of many database applications. These applications were developed over a long period of time, each addressing a specific problem. A hypermedia link engine would be a good mechanism to integrate such heterogeneous database applications providing unique navigation and information retrieval facilities to retrieve large amounts of inter-related information.