True Engineering Technology Claims to Re-Invent the Number

By DE Editors

Numbers play a critical role in every organization, from product design and development to manufacturing, science, education, and finance.  Yet numbers remain plain, unformatted text that most organizations struggle to find, format, manage, and verify across desktop applications including email, Excel, and PowerPoint.

“It’s almost unbelievable that — in an era where most information is intrinsically connected via the Web — we haven’t yet developed a better way of managing numbers, one of the most important types of information,” said Allen Razdow, founder of True Engineering Technology. Razdow, the inventor of Mathcad engineering software and a co-founder of Mathsoft, founded True Engineering Technology to address the challenges created by unstructured numbers for knowledge workers.

Razdow and his team have developed a new semantic technology that elevates numbers from their static existence into a meaningful data-type that can be embedded in documents and workflows. The company has unveiled a set of tools designed to make it easy to represent numbers as machine-readable, URL-like data called Truenumbers. Like URLs, Truenumbers are live and connected throughout any desktop application in which they reside.

“URLs and RSS have shown how much impact adding a bit of semantics to common datatypes can have. Doing the same for something as critical as numbers can have a transformative effect on desktop computing,” said Razdow.

True Engineering Technology’s solution includes client-side applications for creating and working with Truenumbers in desktop applications as well as a server-based Numberspace repository.  Anyone can create Truenumbers for use in HTML-enabled applications such as email, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel using the free Create a Number application. Registered users can access and store Truenumbers in the free, public Numberspace repository. Organizations that require privacy, system integration, and enterprise features, can purchase an enterprise appliance directly from the company.

For more information, visit True Engineering Technology, LLC.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company's website.