BackOffice Associates: Guiding the Data Stewardship Journey for Large Companies
When a large Fortune 1000 company merges and acquires many smaller companies, and undergoes a Digital Transformation, Data Governance and Data Stewardship become more complex. The well-known and established business may need to integrate up to 200 different ERP applications from a variety of systems across different divisions that span the globe. Take this context […]
Read More →Smart and Scalable: The Next Generation Data Lakes
Data Lakes have come under some scrutiny in recent times, with complaints that businesses wind up storing anything and everything in them, yet aren’t realizing the value they expected from all the data they’ve piled up. Sam Chance, who’s recently taken on a Managing Director role in Cambridge Semantics Solution Engineering organization, has a take […]
Read More →Cambridge Semantics Shatters Previous Record of Loading and Querying ‘Trillion Triples’ by 100X
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “Cambridge Semantics, the leading provider of graph-based Smart Data management and exploratory analytic solutions, today announced that its Anzo Graph Query Engine™ completed a load and query of one trillion triples as a Google Cloud Partner on the Google Cloud Platform in just under two hours, […]
Read More →2017 Trends for Semantic Web and Semantic Technologies
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 […]
Read More →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 […]
Read More →IPTC Releases Comprehensive Controlled Vocabularies for SportsML 3.0 Standard
by Angela Guess According to a recent press release, “The IPTC has released a comprehensive set of sports controlled vocabularies as a supplement to the SportsML 3.0sports-data interchange format, which was released in July 2016. These controlled vocabularies (CVs) are in the format of NewsML-G2 Knowledge Items plus RDF variants and are available on IPTC’s […]
Read More →PoolParty Releases Enhanced Version of its Semantic Middleware
by Angela Guess A new press release out of the company reports, “PoolParty Semantic Suite is now including improved machine learning capabilities to support most critical knowledge engineering tasks. PoolParty 5.5 now represents a complete stack of standards-based technologies to be used as an enterprise middleware for cognitive computing platforms, according to Andreas Blumauer, PoolParty […]
Read More →ezDI Inc Launches Clinical Documentation Improvement Platform “ezCDI”
by Angela Guess A new release out of ezDI Inc. reports, “Built with advanced Natural Language Processing capabilities that includes Computational Linguistics, Semantic Web and Machine Learning, ezCDI transforms CDI workflows into an automated, real-time, collaborative and effective Revenue Cycle solution. ezCDI analyzes digitized healthcare data to identify documentation gaps and makes it easily available […]
Read More →Semantic Technology is Ready to Power Next-Generation Cyber Security
Cyber security is always a hot topic, but every time another Big Data exposure makes headlines, it becomes even hotter. The leak of some 11 million records held in a database operated by offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca, which led to the Panama Papers investigation, is just the latest example of a massive breach generating […]
Read More →A Brief History of Semantics
Generally speaking, Semantics is the study of language and its meaning. As a word, Semantics was first used by Michel Bréal, a French philologist in 1883, and can be used to describe how words can have different meanings for different people, due to their experiential and emotional backgrounds. A language can be a natural language, […]
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