Applied Technical Systems (ATS) is a software firm specializing in information management and knowledge discovery systems. To make better use of your textual data, ATS provide effective solutions to accessing and use of information, developing a system that presents that data in ways you never envisioned, a system moreover that is practical, efficient, and easy to use. The firm's flagship technology is the Contiguous Connection Model (CCM), a unique method for structuring data that retains the connections among related information. CCM is particularly valuable because it can present complex information in such a way that users can explore easily and naturally, without complicated querying.