1. A system for developing computer models for collection and display of data, the system comprising: a component builder, executed by a processing device, configured to create a first reusable component definition, the first reusable component definition including at least one component associated with point data and non-point data associated with at least one back-end data source, the point data including data collected from at least one addressable informational source and the non-point data including context-defining data associated with the point data; a connection for defining a mechanism to utilize the non-point data and other information to uniquely identify the data to be collected from the at least one addressable information source; a module, executed by a processing device, utilizing said first reusable component definition to build another component definition for at least another component associated with second point data to be collected and second non-point data to be collected, the connection additionally defining a mechanism to utilize the second non-point data and other information to uniquely identify the second point data to be collected; a view builder operable to generate a first reusable view that corresponds to the first reusable component definition generated by the component builder, wherein the first reusable view defines how the point data and non-point data are to be displayed, the view builder displaying the collected second point data and second non-point data in a view corresponding to the another component definition using a format defined by the first reusable view; wherein the point data comprises operational data representative of at least one of: monitoring, control, and reporting functions, relating to operation of a selected back-end data source; and wherein the view builder provides functionality for inserting a view corresponding to a first component within a view corresponding to a second component such that third point data and third non-point data can be aggregated and displayed in a user-defined manner.