Revelytix Announces Support for Ontology-Guided Search

Hunt Valley, MD - March 24, 2009

Revelytix, Inc., a leading provider of semantic technology based information management products, today announced a new feature through which users can graphically build SPARQL queries to search their knowledgebases. "This feature set is extremely important to making the instances in Knoodl more easily discoverable. It provides our customers with a quick and simple way to discover and navigate instance level datasets. In addition to the new SPARQL query builder, the tree-view of all Vocabularies has been extended to show relevant properties for each Class and each Class's (WIKI) page as a page-able list of all of its instances", said Greg Milbank, President and Co-founder.

"Over the last few months we have unveiled a number of powerful few capabilities that make it easier for our customers to discover and programmatically access information in the knowledgebase. Simplifying and enhancing the Knoodl end user experience are the focus of the current phase of Knoodl's development", Mr. Milbank said.

Revelytix Announces Support for SPARQL Endpoints

Hunt Valley, MD - February 16, 2009

Revelytix, Inc., a leading provider of semantic technology based information management products, today announced that ontologies and knowledgebases developed in knoodl can be accessed as SPARQL end points. This is an important step for us and a great opportunity for both our customers and partners. All vocabularies (ontologies & knowledgebases) developed in knoodl can now be queried by third party tools. Each community has control over which ontologies and knowledgebases are exposed as an endpoint by using knoodl's role-based permissions model. This new capability allows our customers and partners to access data and ontologies stored within Knoodl using the SPARQL protocol over HTTP. No programmatic interfacing is required. "One of our Partners has already taken advantage of this new feature to build their own ontology-driven user interface to analyze the data stored within their Knoodl knowledgebase", said Greg Milbank, President & Co-founder. "Knoodl is now a first order member of the semantic web community, users have always been able to build ontologies and knowledgebases in Knoodl, but until today they could only be used within the Knoodl environment. Many of our partners have asked to expose their knoodl based assets to be available to SPARQL queries from other tools."

Revelytix Awarded OSD/NII Contract as Follow On to Successful Army Pilot Implementation

Hunt Valley, MD - November 22, 2008

Leveraging the success of the Army's Architecture Federation Pilot (AAFP), OSD has purchased Revelytix's collaborative semantic development tools for a joint forces SOA implementation. To further support the findings of the AAFP, OSD will use MatchIT and Knoodl to inject semantic capabilities into the NII's Core Enterprise Services To The Tactical Edge (CESTE) initiative. The CESTE team will build a semantic knowledgbase using Revelytix's Knoodl.com which will improve visibility into the processes and software services that are vital to ensuring the success of Joint Close Air Support missions. If successful, the pilot will allow NII to use domain vocabularies to discover and precisely understand the capabilities they have available at the tactical edge (war fighters, analysts, and other members of the operational theater).

"Using the collaborative capabilities of myKnoodl, NII is developing a set of reference models, in the form of ontologies. Ontologies can be combined or more precisely, extended, to provide a uniform model extensible enough to describe the totality of data sources, components and capabilities within their enterprise architecture. We have been fortunate to be teaming with an exceptional group of architects and integrator partners. Our success is dependent upon their expertise to execute on an extremely complex set of customer requirements", said Greg Milbank, Revelytix, President & Co-founder.

"When terms are accurate and precise enough they can be used within our run-time environment to execute queries, discover new services, and provide oversight into the acquisition and capability development process. The collaborative capabilities offered by myKnoodl garner the involvement of subject matter experts early in the process, insuring consensus on the definitions of terms in the ontologies. Their collaborative efforts result in a community knowledgebase and semantic integration layer that uses domain vocabularies to align disparate systems. As more and more communities participate in the collaborative process, they inherit dramatically improved discovery capabilities and become fully interoperable with applications developed by other communities within the same model (ontology). Community administrators can then extend their models to accommodate the unique capability requirements of the community without breaking the other community's models. This is one of the inherent advantages of OWL and RDF," Mr. Milbank said.

Revelytix Announces Support for Mulgara Triple Store

Hunt Valley, MD - November 22, 2008

Revelytix, Inc., the leading provider of semantic technology based information management products, announced the incorporation of the Mulgara RDF triple store into Knoodl.com, along with Krule, a rules engine that is built into Mulgara. "This was a strategic decision made by our technical team to insure Knoodl's scalability and reliability satisfy performance expectations for enterprise caliber deployments", said Gregory Milbank, Co-founder and President. "In testing, we discovered significant performance enhancements with Mulgara over our prior RDF store. We are excited to be working with the Mulgara Project. We are an active contributor to the Mugara Project, and offer another production instance of Mulgara for any organizations wanting to use a scalable, performant RDF triple store."

"The Mulgara Semantic Store community welcomes Revelytix to its group of production users and appreciates Revelytix's contributions to Mulgara's Open Source code base. The Mulgara community is pleased to support Revelytix and Knoodl", said David Wood, Co-founder of the Mulgara Semantic Store and Semantic Web researcher. Mulgara's nearly decade-long research and development lineage and recent support of the SPARQL query language has resulted in the first enterprise-ready RDF triple store for the Semantic Web. Knoodl relies on Mulgara to store and analyze all of its RDF data and OWL ontologies.

Revelytix will continue to position Knoodl.com and myKnoodl as platform independent products. We remain committed to supporting the backend database choices of our customers, "Our goal is to provide a semantic development platform that suits our customers and leverages existing infrastructure investments", Mr. Milbank said.

About the Mulgara Project

The Mulgara Project is an open source community whose mission is the development of a scalable semantic data store. This global community has developed a production-quality database based on a directed graph data model, optimized for the storage and analysis of data in the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Web Ontology Language (OWL). Mulgara supports Semantic Web standards of the World Wide Web Consortium including the SPARQL query language. Mulgara is Open Source Software, licensed under the Open Software License, version 3.0, and developed by an international community of developers. Mulgara is written in the Java programming language and runs on Windows, Macintosh and Linux computers.

Revelytix Announces the Deployment of Knoodl.com in Amazon EC2

Hunt Valley, MD - November 22, 2008

Revelytix, Inc., a leading provider of semantic technology based information management products, today announced the redeployment of www.knoodl.com in the Amazon EC2 Cloud. "This is a real game changer for Revelytix. The performance potential afforded through cloud computing puts Knoodl.com in a class by itself amongst semantic development platforms", said Gregory Milbank, Co-founder and President. "Our deployment in the cloud affords us the option of availing Knoodl as a service while removing scalability as an obstacle. We shifted the game when we moved ontology development into a thin client collaborative architecture with the release of Knoodl. Now, we are amending the pricing model to accommodate the hosted delivery of myKnoodl. Knoodl.com is a free destination site for people who want to learn about OWL/RDF and the benefits of community oriented collaboration. myKnoodl is licensed for installation behind company firewalls. Now we can also offer the same service hosted by Revelytix or the customer in the EC2 Cloud", Mr. Milbank said.

Revelytix Announces Deployment of MyKnoodl by US DoD

Hunt Valley, MD - December 12, 2007

Revelytix, a leading provider of semantic technology based information management software, today announced it's products Knoodl and MatchIT had been selected by DoD to develop a semantic data architecture to advance information and service discovery. "DoD continues to be a world leader in the deployment of the most exceptional technologies for gathering, managing and integrating information. The selection of products for this effort speaks volumes as to the unique capabilities of our company", said Greg Milbank, President and Co-founder of Revelytix.

DoD has been a thought leader around the global semantic community for over 15 years. The DAML and OIL standard born in DARPA in the early 90s were adopted by the W3C in 2001 under the OWL and RDF standards. "Introducing new technology and capabilities into the market is a tremendous challenge. We have been fortunate to be working with a team that have the vision and experience required to be successful in this arena. The innovations being sought by this agency will continue to challenge us as a company. This will keep pressure on us to continue to advance our products and capabilities to the benefit of all of our customers", Mr. Milbank said.

Revelytix Announces the Release of Knoodl.com Beta

Hunt Valley, MD - November 20, 2006

Revelytix, Inc., a leading provider of technologies that enable Ontology-Driven Information Management (ODIM), announced today the beta release of Knoodl.com. This release is a complement to the semantic matching and vocabulary management capabilities released earlier this year in MatchIT 1.2.2. The combined offering of Knoodl.com and MatchIT enables complex system interoperability (SOA) like never before. Knoodl.com is the first web-based ontology registry and editor that also recognizes the critical nature of community collaboration in the creation of domain vocabularies. Knoodl.com, using a Wiki framework, enables individuals to register and communities to organize for the specific purpose of creating highly useful OWL ontology vocabularies. Equally important Knoodl.com provides a common place for individuals and groups alike to register and share ontologies or keep them private. Using MatchIT to auto-generate representative terminology from source systems, Knoodl.com communities can bootstrap their ontologies within the Knoodl environment. The web-based version of Knoodl.com is free to individuals and groups alike. This same functionality is also available in licensed form so organization may operate the system behind their firewalls if they so chose.
For more information please visit www.knoodl.com or contact us at info@revelytix.com.

Revelytix Announces the Release of MatchIT Version 1.2

Hunt Valley, MD - June 8, 2006

Revelytix, Inc., a leading provider of tools that enable Ontology-Driven Information Management (ODIM), announced today the general release of MatchIT v1.2. This release is an expansion of the semantic matching and vocabulary management capabilities originally introduced by Revelytix earlier this year. MatchIT v1.2 includes several major usability enhancements including a knowledge-base browser, match set visualization, new exporters, expanded schema properties, and additional features making vocabulary and match-set creation and reuse much easier. This release provides further evidence of Revelytix's commitment to provide richer vocabulary management functionality as required for semantic data matching and search. The MatchIT product currently provides industry leading vocabulary discovery and semantic matching capabilities for structured data.

Revelytix Announces the Release of MatchIT Version 1.1

Hunt Valley, MD - March 6, 2006

Revelytix, Inc., a leading provider of tools that enable Ontology-Driven Information Management (ODIM), announced today at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose, CA the anticipated release of MatchIT 1.1. This is the first in a series of releases expected from Revelytix concentrated on enabling semantic matching capabilities. Andrew Krause, CTO of Revelytix said, "MatchIT takes an evolutionary and revolutionary technical approach to resolving semantic disparity among information sources and we believe it will become a fundamental tool for Semantic Web applications as well."

Revelytix Announces New Headquarters

Hunt Valley, MD - March 3, 2006

To support its continued growth, Revelytix announced it has signed a multi-year lease effectively keeping its headquarters in Hunt Valley, MD and providing additional space for executive, administrative and development personnel. Effective April 1, 2006 Revelytix move its facilities to 224 Schilling Circle, Suite 240, Hunt Valley, MD 21030. The main phone number will remain the same.

Revelytix and Metamatrix Recognized for “Best Semantic Harmonization Tool Application”

McLean, VA - February 10, 2006

Revelytix, Inc., a leading provider of tools that enable Ontology-Driven Information Management (ODIM), and Metamatrix, a leading provider of information management software solutions that help large organizations make better use of their information, today were recognized by SCIoP for the Best Semantic Harmonization Tool Application: Automatically Resolving Vocabularies with MatchIT”.

Revelytix Receives $75,000 MIPS Grant

Hunt Valley, MD - January 31, 2006

The Maryland Industrial Partnerships Program, an initiative of the A. James Clark School of Engineering's Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, brings university innovation to the commercial sector by supporting university based research projects to help Maryland companies develop technology-based products.