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The growing product portfolio of Biogen Idec (Weston, MA) was resulting in rapid domestic and international expansion, leading to an increasingly complex pharmaceutical supply chain. Harmonized data reporting and real-time information were needed in order to move toward a risk-based model for contractor assessments and batch release. To meet this challenge, the company chose Anzo software from Cambridge Semantics (Boston, MA), which allows business users to search for, virtualize, analyze, act on, and make decisions with any internal or external, structured, or unstructured data. Based on the revolutionary flexibility of semantic web technologies, the software provides operational business process integration for just about any formal or informal business activity.
Jennifer Zaino of SemanticWeb.com interviewed Steve Kludt, VP Marketing, about the benefits of semantic technology as applied to enterprise software.
Recently, I had a chance to talk to the Sean Martin, CTO of Cambridge Semantics, a Massachusetts-based company that has developed a semantic middleware stack, complete with ESB. We largely discussed how companies are applying the company's solution to enterprise data that's thus-far un-managed and un-integrated: spreadsheet data.
A tutorial on SPARQL 1.1 presented at SemTech 2010.