While it is widely accepted that semantic technology is the future of computing, until now no company has managed to deploy practical shrink-wrapped solutions based on these new standards. Cambridge Semantics is the first company to do so. With connections to industry-standard databases, a plug-in for Microsoft Excel and a simple tool that allows end users to build custom Web views of data, Cambridge Semantics has solved a major problem that plagues many of the world’s largest corporations – how to leverage information locked up in data silos, especially Excel spreadsheets.
As former founding members of IBM’s Advanced Internet Technology Team, Cambridge Semantics engineers have been working at the forefront of the semantic space from its inception. By building the most robust semantic middleware available today, they have created a platform that dramatically simplifies the process for building innovative applications that scale and integrate easily. Semantically-enabled data brings computing to an entirely new level:
- Data Access. Semantic data standards act as a common language for data of all formats, making a semantic platform the natural choice for working with information in databases, spreadsheets, documents, the Web, and more.
- Flexibility. Semantic data is freed from the confines of the software that creates it. Liberated data can be consumed and manipulated by any other application; a database, on the Web, Excel – it is completely application independent.
- Extensibility. Business requirements typically change more quickly than application software. Semantically-enabled software is built for change. Logic changes, data-schema changes, and presentation changes can all be made on the fly in a matter of hours by non-programming resources.
- Security. Traditional security models offer limited protection because they secure systems rather than data. With the Anzo suite of semantic applications, security is possible at the data element level. Wherever the data goes, it carries its full security model along with it.
What we do - Data Collaboration
From its inception in 2007, Cambridge Semantics Inc. has been focused on providing practical applications of the most advanced semantic technology to solve today’s business problems. While the technology is sophisticated, the approach is simple and immediately useful: make any data accessible to and consumable by any application that can make use of it.
Cambridge Semantics products make possible a new level of collaboration that until today was unattainable:
Data Collaboration.
Cambridge Semantics’ Anzo suite of products liberates data from traditional application and document-based silos and virtualizes it in a reusable form using the W3C semantic standards, so that it is:
- Silo-agnostic
- Accessible in real-time
- Universally consumable
- Expressed in an open data standard
- A business agility enabler