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Abstract: We are at an inflection point where the confines of existing data management practices are being exchanged for a more flexible, extensible platform. Over the next forty years, data will evolve from siloed schemas and become completely distributed, machine readable, and useable without complex mapping and coding.
In existing Information Management Systems, data is stored in databanks with rigid schemas. While these data stores are shared to some degree, wider use of the data is accomplished by replicating the data in data warehouses and specialized data marts. The data and metadata are different types of things. Query processors only understand their local data, expressed in a fixed schema. While providing reliable ACID / CRUD capability, there is little or no robust analytic capability.
The information management technology for the next forty years is keyed off precise, formalized descriptions...
Enterprise information management needs radical improvement: it hasn't really changed much since the relational database was invented. Spinner enables a true, standards-based data federation capability throughout and beyond the enterprise. Spinner employs a new information modeling and description technology, OWL and RDF, from the W3C standards organization. It is now possible to combine enterprise knowledge with enterprise data to enable Emergent Analytics.
This new information management framework will transform your business, greatly improving analytical, operational, and strategic planning capabilities. Data (and other information) is no longer bound to dark silos; it is federated in the Enterprise Information Web to support the needs of businesses for agility and interoperation. Spinner is available for a free evaluation at...
Firms are aligning efforts to apply semantic integration components in the areas of Master Data Management and Data Governance.
The combined offering represents a significant breakthrough in MDM and Data Governance, using a completely new approach to integrate data across disparate platforms and database architectures.
Revelytix, Inc., the leading provider of standards-based semantic technology products and services, announced its formal partnership with Global IDs, a recognized leader of Data Governance and Master Data Management (MDM) Software. Data discovery, reuse and the integration of disparate data remains one of the more critical and costly challenges for large IT organizations. Revelytix’s technology provides a way to add the descriptions of information consumers, data stewards, IT Professionals and executive stake holders to the data where it resides today....
Revelytix, Inc announces availability of Spyder, Spinner®, and Rex®. These tools complement Knoodl® as part the Revelytix Distributed Information Management SystemTM (DIMS), a suite of software. DIMS is revolutionizing the way enterprises manage information. Based on the RDF, OWL, RIF, and SPARQL standards from the W3C, these tools enable a change in data management architecture of the scale that relational databases had in the mid 1980's.
Spyder is a software tool that makes relational data available as RDF via SPARQL endpoints. Spinner is a tool that implements the federation capabilities provided by the SPARQL 1.1 specification to enable querying of any collection of SPARQL endpoints using semantics described in any OWL ontology as if all of the endpoints are all in a single graph. Rex is a rules engine that will execute any rules written using a Rules Interchange Format (RIF...
Revelytix has released Spyder beta, a free tool to convert relational data to RDF. It implements R2RML ("relational to RDF mapping language"), which is still under development by the W3C R2RML Working Group. Spyder provides a SPARQL 1.1 end point for relational data and is designed to be a core component of a federated SPARQL-based analytic capability.
Revelytix is currently building additional components required to enable enterprise or web-scale federated information management. Spyder will also be useful in making data available in a Linked Open Data (LOD) paradigm.
There is no cost for the use of Spyder; it can be downloaded for free here.
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...We're very proud to announce that NYC Data Web, Revelytix's entry in the NYC BigApps 2.0 contest, has won the contest's Large Organization Recognition Award. It's notable that NYC Data Web is fully ontology-driven: this is an early stage in the full realization of a model-driven approach to enterprise information.
We'd like to offer our congratulations to all the other BigApps winners. And a big thanks to our partner companies in this project - TCG Software, SkyTECH Solutions, and Spry, Inc. - for their help and hard work.
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Information Management magazine has announced their list of "40 Vendors We're Watching in 2011," and Revelytix is on the list.
Here's what they're saying about us:
We're still waiting for the semantic message to bloom in the mainstream and admit part of that might be digesting the thinking of some left-brained engineers. What they are telling us is that inside W3C abbreviations like RDF and OWL, an enterprise information web merges with other information ripe for what the company calls "emergent analytics."
How were the companies selected?
The 40 vendors were chosen by the magazine's editors from among hundreds of prospects. The editors' decisions were based on close reporting and analysis of market activity, including...
There has never been an easy-to-use, easy-to-visualize capability to show the semantic contents of OWL DL ontologies. Without this feature, it is very difficult for ontologists to communicate the precise semantics of any domain to a subject matter expert or business person. Revelytix has devoted substantial resources to researching the issues in visualizing the precise semantics of OWL ontologies, designing a tool that addresses these issues, and then implementing the feature in knoodl.com.
As the leading tool for collaborating in communities over the design and construction of OWL ontologies, knoodl.com is the natural place for this capablity to be made available to the world. Visualizing ontologies easily is the next step in making semantics into mainstream enterprise technology.
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Data, data, everywhere. Over 350 data sets (hot dog stands to campaign contributions) in over 350 different formats. The NYC Data Web, jointly developed by Revelytix Inc, TCG Inc and Spry Inc, shows a simple method using semantic technologies to integrate all of these different data sets into a single web of data that can all be queried using SPARQL. It also shows how to use open source dashboards to produce comprehensive analytics of the NYC Data Web. The task of analyzing all of this data just changed from nearly impossible to simple.
The Federated Enterprise appears today on semanticweb.com.
Michael Lang, CEO & Founder of Revelytix, weighs in on the degree to which federating information using semantic technology could compete with the capabilities delivered by data warehouses.
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