Large organizations typically require hundreds of integrations between disparate legacy systems to meet enterprise business requirements. Even with a SOA approach, this complex web of point-to-point integrations can be difficult to govern and manage. The result is a proliferation of overlapping services, poor documentation, limited reuse and a challenging support environment. Surprisingly,...
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[Note: Marty Loughlin joined Cambridge Semantics from EMC a few months ago. In this post, Marty shares his view of what semantic technology is and what it can bring to enterprises] With Gartner and Forrester both identifying semantic technology as a key trend to watch in 2013, the first question many folks are asking is, "What is semantic technology?" My goal here is to answer that question...
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On Thursday May 16th, Cambridge Semantics (CSI) participated in DATA demo day in Washington, DC. The event, hosted by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, was an opportunity for leading technology vendors to demonstrate how their products could leverage the data standards proposed in the DATA Act to make government spending more transparent and to identify waste and fraud. As a member of...
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Part of building a software business based on Semantic Web technologies is working continuously to understand and elucidate the benefits of Semantic Web technologies both in general and specifically for enterprise information management. My colleagues and I have recently had a few different opportunities to explain the Semantic Web and its value for different audiences: The...
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At Cambridge Semantics we use the W3C semantic web standards to create conceptual canonical data models, in particularly using the web ontology modeling language called OWL. The conceptual models are declarative and express information in the way that the domain expert or business user, understands it – usually as a series of interlinked concepts and properties. Unlike most traditional...
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