Answers When You Need Them
Businesses have the information they need to answer most of their questions, but getting to the answers can be difficult. When the answer requires combining data from multiple information silos, it can become so difficult that decision makers have to do without. Solutions tend to be expensive, take too long to develop and end up being so inflexible that the value gets lost quickly. These solutions become new silos of information and just as difficult to share. Pieces of the answer could be anywhere from application databases to data warehouses or Excel spreadsheets. Cambridge Semantics has delivered a solution that cuts across all of them with the Anzo Suite of products, a complete toolkit that allows you to apply the W3C semantic standards without having to be a semantic technologist. Data is combined quickly and easily using views that you can build on the fly, when you need them. The semantic approach makes work done in previous projects easily sharable.
The Most Advanced Technology
Semantic technology is the most advanced, flexible, and effective method for organizing data available today. Semantic technology enables data to be located by its meaning – what it is - rather than its database address – where it is- eliminating many challenges typically associated with fixed data structures. Semantic data structures define themselves as the data shows up, opening up possibilities for solving business problems that simply are not practical with traditional technologies. Because data is stored and accessed by its meaning, if you know what it is that you are looking for, the system will make it available to you.
Low Impact Implementation
For Cambridge Semantics customers, this is as straightforward as mapping their applications, ranging from legacy databases to Excel spreadsheets, to our Anzo Data Collaboration Server. To assist, Cambridge Semantics offers a set of tools that allow our customers to easily extract, combine, view and update data from any of those systems.
The Anzo Product Suite of Practical Solutions 
Anzo on the Web – Allows users to create customized views of any data from any systems connected to the Anzo Data Collaboration Server.
- Create mashed up views of information
- Create intelligent lenses appropriate for the data
- Build mini-applications with real-time, two-way interaction with source applications
Anzo for Excel – A plug in to Excel that allow users to easily link spreadsheets to the Anzo Data Collaboration Server.
- Enable data from multiple spreadsheets to easily be combined and viewed in:
- A consolidated spreadsheet
- Web applications created with Anzo on the Web
- Use Excel as a user interface for data from other applications
- Upload Excel data to legacy applications and databases
- Create linked Excel templates that automatically integrate Excel data
Anzo Data Collaboration Server – Semantic middleware that connects to your applications and manages your linked data.
- Virtualizes data from linked applications
- Stores data as needed in RDF or legacy databases
- Enables secure, integrated access to existing and new data sources
- Promotes real-time collaboration, distributed query, new metadata and functionality for existing applications
Anzo Connectors – A family of APIs and mapping tools that facilitate connecting relational databases, enterprise directory servers and web services / SOA systems to the Anzo Data Collaboration Server:
- Keep data where it is today to guarantee accuracy and accountability—a single source of truth
- Display data from legacy systems in integrated views alongside context from other systems
- Reflect changes and updates to data in the systems that house the original data
Cambridge Semantics solutions are practical and manageable for any business. Our underlying architecture has been designed to allow you to implement department- or enterprise-scale solutions in a matter of days so that you realize the benefit of your investment almost immediately. Semantics makes these solutions possible, Anzo makes them practical.