Are you hearing the term “Semantic Web” as often as you may have in the past? There’s no denying the importance of the technologies, standards, concepts, and collaborations that define the Semantic Web proper and all that is affiliated with it or grown out of it. These range from a dependency on RDF/OWL triple stores […]
Cognonto Takes On Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence
Knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence. That’s the direction taken by startup Cognonto, co-founded by Michael Bergman, a man whose history in the AI, Machine Learning, Semantic technologies, Internet search and data arenas goes back a long way. That includes his additional duties as CEO of Structured Dynamics, birthplace of UMBEL (Upper-level Mapping and Binding Exchange Layer), a […]
Get Master Data Management Right – and Fast – with Full-Production Analytics
The accurate information that Master Data Management (MDM) can produce for an enterprise feeds their bigger objectives: helping customers fulfill their centralized customer-view needs for various types of applications and specific business purposes. The Innovative Systems Synchronos Enterprise Master Data Management platform serves both MDM and rapid application development purposes. In June, the MDM Institute […]
Getting in Front on Data: Enhance Data Quality for All Your Data Roles
Dr. Thomas C. Redman, the Data Doc and President of Data Quality Solutions, has written another book that tackles the same issue his firm regularly deals with: Data Quality. Joining his previous works, which include Data Driven: Profiting from Your Most Important Business Asset and Data Quality: The Field Guide, is Getting in Front on Data. […]
IDERA Drives Business-Driven Data Architecture
Today’s enterprise IT environment most likely consists of a plethora of different database platforms, all of which must be supported across the lifecycle. How to streamline managing every aspect of the multi-platform database ecosystem? IDERA’s answer is to let it help out. Its acquisition last fall of Embarcadero Technologies’ ER/Studio Data Architecture solution and DB […]
New Cloud Data Services for New Age Developers
Developers today wear many faces: They are traditional programmers, but also Data Scientists, IT architects, entrepreneurs, and self-taught casual users. Gartner, in fact, has predicted that by 2020, 60% of all fast-mode application development projects will be done outside of formal IT teams, driven by the rise of citizen developers. “We are going to have […]
Banking on FIBO: Financial Institutions Turn to Semantic Standard
What is a Semantic Bank? One thing is for sure: The Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) developed by the EDM Council, which semantically defines core financial industry concepts and relationships, probably plays a big role in it. A look at Deutsche Bank should help clarify the concept. The bank has leveraged FIBO as the basic […]
Drink Up the Data Analytics: System Helps with On-Tap Inventory and Sales
If you love beer and Data Analytics – and who doesn’t? – you may be excited to learn that the two pair up together in a system for bars and restaurants. These retail establishments use it to help them better understand and manage their on-tap inventory and improve their sales. Twenty billion dollars’ worth of […]
Data Modeling Lends a Hand to NoSQL Databases
Sectors such as banking, healthcare, and insurance are increasingly interested in NoSQL databases and Data Modeling for NoSQL. As they take their first or their next steps in the space, they want “to have the tools available to them that give credibility and legitimacy to the technology,” says Pascal Desmarets, Founder and CEO at Hackolade, […]
People Matter to the Data Strategy Process
Data Strategy in the education sector needs to take into consideration one big question: Why? Why should education professionals care about the seemingly endless streams of data they’re asked to enter into systems? Why should data input be a priority when they have so many other critical responsibilities to students on their plates? That’s what […]