Click to learn more about author Xiaowei Jiang. It has been a great year for Blink, our fork of Apache Flink®, at Alibaba. We went into production with Blink about a year ago, and since then, we have used it to make real-time updates to listings in various search products such as Taobao, Tmall, AliExpress, etc. […]
The State of Smart Data in the Enterprise – 2017
Is Smart Data finally reaching the tipping point for acceptance in the enterprise? Every week brings multiple newspaper articles about AI-powered applications that rely on Smart Data. Buzzwords abound. It takes expertise to parse the differences between Cognitive Computing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing, Text Analytics, Big Data, and other enabling technologies. Facing […]
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 […]
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 […]
How You Know Insight as a Service is Right for Your Enterprise
Click here to learn more about author Luca Scagliarini. Businesses are buying all kinds of data and data analytics solutions but they may still fail to meet their business goals. Increasingly, vendors and professional services firms are offering Insights as a Service (IaaS), which can be part of the cloud stack or a new, pay-for-answers economic model. Let me […]
Schema.org Semantics Vocabulary Expands with the Help of FIBO
Schema.org and the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO) are teaming up to bring more semantics technologies to a greater audience. Enhancements to the core of the proposed Release Candidate 3.0 of the Google-, Microsoft-, Yahoo- and Yandex-sponsored community activity to create a shared vocabulary for marking up web pages will include contributions from the business […]
Smart Data Plus Deep Reasoning Equals Business Value from Data Analysis
Coherent Knowledge would like businesses that want to make more effective use of the knowledge they capture and distribute to become more familiar with Rulelog. That is the logic underlying knowledge representation languages such as Vulcan’s Silk and the rule language used by its own Ergo Suite semantic rules and reasoning platform. Smart Data is […]
Names, Naming, and Ontology
Click here to learn more about author Adam Pease. Last month I looked at representing some simple statements with binary relations. This month, let’s look at what is possibly an even more fundamental issue, that of naming. It comes up often in knowledge representation and people can have very strong opinions about the “right” name […]