Federation

For the past 40 years enterprises have been employing information technology to build information kingdoms, and information could not be shared across kingdoms. System interoperability and enterprise-level analytics were and remain very difficult and expensive to implement. It was believed for the past several years that XSD might change that, but it has only created many more kingdoms. Semantic technology is changing the paradigm. W3C standards RDF and OWL can be used to create an information federation. In a federated information environment, everyone agrees to use certain standards and provide a certain minimum level of description of their information resources by using the OWL and RDF standards.

Armed with these descriptions of information resources specified in OWL models, anyone can access data to which they have been properly authorized and combine it with other data by using the OWL descriptions to build interoperable systems or process queries by using SPARQL across all of the data sources.

An Enterprise Information Web emerges from all of these descriptions and surprising new information is discovered about your business. This enterprise web can easily be combined with data from the World Wide Web as well as other businesses who are deploying these standards. We call this new information-management capability Emergent Analytics^TM.

The world has not seen a change this big or this important to information-management technology since the invention of the relational database management system in the early 1980’s. Talk to us about our products and consulting capabilities to see how Emergent Analytics^TM can transform your business.