Each member or distinct group within the enterprise would use the DEMIS to build an "interest" profile, showing as much of their environmental "context", past, present, and future, as is economical to record. With this profile, they would use various techniques/technologies to "explore", "mine", and "link-to" internal and external information sources for relevant information on predefined and ad-hoc schedules. The interest profile also enables the members/groups to be automatically informed by the DEMIS. As a corollary, the DEMIS context engine can also be used to maintain the privacy of a person’s profile, with the person choosing which other persons, groups, or processes can see and use their context.

Within a unitary view, each basic question falls within a dimension of the enterprise. Compound/complex questions require multiple dimensional views. Within the unitary view, a user can ask a near infinite number of questions, with the context of the basic questions relating to the user's functional area or program/project responsibilities. All MIS are designed to answer questions for their limited/fragmented context. A unitary MIS such as DEMIS is built to answer all questions from any context, and is a multidimensional database (MDDB). In can display data in all the combinations and permutations available. An example of a multidimensional question is:

How many:

(1) PC's,

with (2) less than 16MB of RAM,

are (3) on-hand

or (4) on-order

that support the (5) Scheduling activity,

within the (6) Training program's

(7) project management training function,

broken down by (8) office code

and (9) Site/Building/Room,

and what are the (10) names of the persons who have or will receive them?

Answer this question accurately every 24 hours.

The ten dimensions of this query require consistent data structure and values.

Question like this and a near infinite number of similar questions can be answered routinely by a DEMIS.