Adele was developed to simplify the daily work with data. Use it as a swiss knife to fill the gap between your work with spreadsheet application like MS Excel and enterprise servers like SAP ERP.
Specialized tools like Rapid Miner, KNIME or similiary stuff should not be replaced. But Adele is designed for business people working with spreadsheet applications to analyse their data.
There are many technical concepts in an easier way included. For example realtime OLAP, transformations,...
Abstracts developers from SQL syntax, with methods that return Strings to pass on to JDBC, thus allowing compile-time checking for, many, otherwise run-time bugs. e.g. stmt.executeQuery(SqlWrapper.selectId(ordersTable, customerColumn, "John Smith")
Central hosted cloud computing has to many bad security implications. So the purpose of AAPD is to provide a decentralized private cloud of disk storage.