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Columba Global Systems Ltd is an Irish technology company founded on the premise that effective and rapid access to corporate and competitive information is central to success in the global network. Columba believes that the majority of existing information retrieval technologies, whether on the web or within corporations are ineffective, and that significantly better solutions are achievable through the application of adaptive architecture coupled with open, standards based technology and the provision of highly intuitive (expressive) user interfaces. Based on this view, Columba funded the initial multi-million euro research and subsequently developed and implemented a technology solution for initial specific application to the public sector security and intelligence community - however, it is also of direct relevance to corporates. Known as exprimer, the technology system solution provides a highly advanced software framework that facilitates the rapid search and interrogation of inter-relationships across multiple, heterogeneous data stores. exprimer's graphical user interface is based on Expressive Systems Theory simplifying user access to information and facilitating the collation of information to produce knowledge - in a highly visual environment - irrespective of whether the applications need is centred on incidents or identities. exprimer brokers the search/retrieve and update of data from/to multiple data store(s) irrespective of owner(s). XML is used to provide the syntax for all communication in conjunction with the ISO 23950 open standard for search/retrieve/update - used to provide the semantics. Columba has created an extremely successful reputation within the Security and Intelligence community where exprimer is applied in state of the art application systems.