Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world’s largest enterprise software company, providing database, middleware, and collaboration products; enterprise business applications; application development tools; and professional services that help customers collaborate, grow, measure outcomes, and report results with confidence. For more than 30 years, Oracle has led the industry through continuous innovation and a relentless focus on customer success. For more information, visit oracle.com.
Founded in 2000, Metatomix is the leading semantic integration provider. The Metatomix Semantic Platform integrates data, uncovers and defines information relationships, and provides meaning and actionable insight to applications. It does so by creating a real-time virtual integration layer that non-invasively accesses data from any source (static and dynamic) and allows it to be understood & leveraged by practically any application. Metatomix solutions intelligently link data from existing disparate systems to create a common semantic understanding of your information across the enterprise. As a result, business applications can leverage information that comes from across all data sources.
Calais is a Thomson Reuters initiative that supports the interoperability of content and development of rich semantic applications. The Calais Web service enables publishers, bloggers and sites of all kinds to automatically metatag the people, places, facts and events in their content. It enables content consumers – search engines, RSS Readers, etc. – to submit content for automatic metatagging performed in under a second. The Calais API is available for commercial and non-commercial use at www.OpenCalais.com
Franz Inc. is an innovative technology company with expert knowledge in developing and deploying Semantic Web solutions. AllegroGraph, Franz's high-performance, scalable, disk-based RDF Database, provides the solid storage layer for powerful geotemporal reasoning, social network analytics and ontology modeling capabilities for today's Semantic Technology applications. Franz's products and services are uniquely positioned to help bring your Web 3.0 ideas to reality.
Ontotext provides core semantic technology, distinctive for its performance, scale, and standard compliance. It delivers real-world applications in Life Sciences, Semantic Web, BI, Telecommunications, Media Monitoring, Online Recruitment, and other areas. Ontotext develops KIM – the most popular semantic annotation and search platform. Its semantic database OWLIM is proven to be the fastest and most scalable RDF(S)/OWL engine. WSMO Studio and wsmo4j are at the heart of the recent developments in Semantic WS and BPM.
Orbis Technologies, Inc. provides world-class Strategic Technology Services to organizations across the Department of Defense. Orbis possesses an elite team of subject-matter experts who help clients assess, optimize, and advance their technology portfolio. Orbis’ distinguished technologists have a broad set of semantic technology experiences that include multi-extractor entity extraction, large scale RDF integration, inference/reasoner utilization and ontology development. Orbis technologists support a variety of information integration and fusion programs across the Department of Defense.
Established in 2001 with the mission to bridge the gap between business collaboration needs and enabling technology through semantic products and services, TopQuadrant offers TopBraid Suite -- the leading, W3C standards-based platform that streamlines the complete semantic application lifecycle. Over 500 customers worldwide use TopQuadrant products and solutions to integrate information from diverse sources, to easily visualize, search and query relevant information spaces, to put knowledge into context, collaborate effectively, and make better decisions. Visit TopQuadrant web site www.topquadrant.com for more information and to download TopBraid Composer, our enterprise modeling tool.
Zepheira is a services firm specializing in enterprise data integration using semantic technologies. Zepheira leads clients through the process of integrating, navigating and managing data across group and enterprise boundaries. Zepheira's experts have a long history of leading Internet standards initiatives and has delivered solutions to the manufacturing, financial services, life sciences and defense communities.
Aduna Software markets a suite of high performance products for metadata-based search, as key components for building the Semantic Web. These products provide users a way to interact with metadata (=data about data) in order to search or explore information. The Aduna product suite offers employees a superior way of finding (structured and unstructured) information in all kinds of enterprise data sources. Powered by Sesame, the world’s leading Open Source RDF-based metadata storage framework.
Cycorp is home to Cyc, the world's most mature cross-domain ontology, knowledge base, and automated reasoning infrastructure. Under continuous development since 1984, Cyc comprises hundreds of thousands of concepts, interrelated through millions of formal (computer accessible) assertions, and the only inference engine capable of dealing efficiently with such large-scale knowledge bases. Cyc is the foundation of semantically-aware solutions in medical informatics, intelligence, network security, decision support, finance, natural language understanding and generation, and regulatory compliance. To ensure successful deployment of your applications, Cycorp offers strategic consulting, hands-on training, a suite of semantic web services, and bespoke software and ontology development, as well as commercial and research licenses to the Cyc technology.
Global organizations work with Dow Jones Client Solutions to ensure that their valuable information assets are easily accessed and shared. Whether you need to license or build a corporate taxonomy, optimize and manage multiple taxonomies our team of experts and innovative Semantic Web-based tools provide you with end-to-end corporate taxonomy management. Synaptica, our Web services-enabled taxonomy and metadata management tool provides structure and consistency to your corporate information assets and ensures scalability as your organization evolves. For more information on Dow Jones Client Solutions, please visit us at www.dowjones.com/clientsolutions.
Intellidimension provides solutions to satisfy today's demands for richer information. We support the vision of a semantic web in which information is easily shared and re-purposed, and where a new generation of tools offer increased information automation by harnessing the power of networked, intelligent data. Our technologies enable the development of practical applications incorporating this vision.
Modus Operandi provides advanced software and services to government intelligence and surveillance customers, resulting in more accurate and timely decisions by operators and analysts responsible for protecting US interests. Leveraging its deep C4/ISR expertise and unrivaled focus on real-time semantics, Modus Operandi delivers a “connect-the-dots” capability to decision makers.
NETBREEZE is the leading - and rapidly growing - European provider of Semantic Web products for business processes. With its SINDBAD Platform, NETBREEZE has developed a “leading edge technology” that enables the automatic extraction from the Web and other databanks of strategically important information for individual business processes. For over 40 customers, such as McDonald's, Novartis, TNS Market Research, UBS, Credit-Suisse, Interbrand, Philip Morris, SAP, and Ernst & Young, NETBREEZE has developed and sold over 30 products for various business processes such as M&A rumors, investor relation management, brand evaluation, early warning, issue & risk management, market research, and anti-money laundering.
ontoprise is a leading provider of industry-proven SemanticWeb infrastructure technologies and products used to support dynamic semantic information integration and information management processes at the enterprise level. With its mature and standards-based products and its know-how ontoprise is delivering a key portion for the upcoming SemanticWeb. ontoprise has developed a comprehensive product suite designed to support the deployment of semantic technologies in the enterprise.
Ontos, founded in 2001 in Switzerland, is a provider of semantic technologies and solutions. The Ontos Semantic Framework and Web service allows to automatically annotate Internet pages by applying an ontology driven information extraction. The easy-to-implement technology can integrate the semantic content on your site and enrich the experience of your readers. The immediate benefit is that readers spend more time on your site and this leads to new revenue opportunities. Further, Ontos has launched a semantic portal for news and business information using semantic technologies. The business portal can be integrated with a CRM system, has an iPhone interface and integration with MS Outlook.
Being established in 1979 and renovated in 2003, Saltlux Inc. is the true value innovation partner that supplies complete, integrated services and total solutions based on next generation information retrieval, mining and semantic technologies. Saltlux is actively working in 3 main businesses in ubiquitous computing, intelligent web based on semantic technologies and search 2.0 with [IN2]Platform which is service-oriented intelligent search platform using semantics and mining. Saltlux is a leading semantic technology company that creates the better today and brighter tomorrow with the real semantic world in Asia to lead the 21st century.
Sandpiper Software has been working in semantic technologies and ontologies for over 10 years. Our products and services bridge software engineering and knowledge representation technologies to increase agility, reduce costs, increase interoperability, and allow applications to more easily adapt to changing requirements and environments. We provide tools to create and apply quality ontologies within an enterprise information architecture, mentoring and architecture services to ensure success, and a library of ontologies to jump-start the development process.
Since 1994, TextWise has been designing, building and implementing complex content-driven technology solutions. The Textwise semantic ecosystem utilizes Semantic Signatures® to enable Web publishers and application developers to automatically embed consistent, semantically meaningful tags within their content for use in classification, organization, navigation and search.
Custom tagging solutions are available for industry vertical markets, enterprise horizontal markets and the consumer, information & communications and R&D markets.
Thetus provides semantic knowledge modeling and discovery solutions for extracting and managing information to support complex analysis and highly informed decision-making. A broad range of government and industry sectors, including defense, intelligence, energy, environmental services and law enforcement, depend on Thetus infrastructure software to automate information discovery, perform robust data extraction and produce contextual, relevant and indispensable knowledge. Thetus software integrates with a wide range of analytics tools, geospatial applications and information management systems to deliver secure, policy-based analysis and information reporting across the enterprise.
Expert System is the leading provider of semantic software, which discovers, classifies and interprets text information.
All Expert System products, which are based on the patent pending technology Cogito®, leverage the company’s expertise in the development of business solutions for the primary markets and support the activities of Knowledge Management, CRM, Marketing and Competitive Intelligence and R&D. Cogito automates the reading and understanding, in the most precise way, of all forms of information for the best decision possible.
The Swiss company iQser AG has developed a unique technology capable of automatically generating semantic data structures. Specialized on contextual information networks, logic reasoning, centric data modeling, data surveillance and content based process management, iQser offers a wide range of new approaches to fully automated information structuring and providing. The technology development commenced in 2003. iQser AG has started operative business in June 2007.
Founded in 1988, KBSI is a dynamic analysis, modeling, and systems/software development company which transitions innovative research and technology into cutting edge solutions and software for government and commercial clients worldwide. Specializing in business process redesign, corporate integration software and services, data mining and analytics, generic algorithm development, semantic search and ontology development, KBSI has established a reputation for turning innovative research results into state-of-the-art commercial products.
Pragati provides innovative software solutions for sophisticated analysis of knowledge embedded in complex information systems to facilitate their interoperability, reuse, knowledge capture and quality assurance. Pragati's flagship product, Expozé, is an integrated suite of modules that presents cognitively useful perspectives of software systems to knowledge engineers and system integrators. Targeted towards both government (DOD, intelligence, NASA) and commercial (financial, human resources, insurance, bioinformatics) space, Expozé provides a cost effective domain and representation independent semantic mediation solution for the semantic web.
Syntactica is an XML Web Service that can be embedded in a variety of enterprise applications that process English language text including: search output, search indexing, and book indexing. Using its patented Intelligent Lexicon, Syntactica digests archived information and provides the essential meaning of the text. Likewise, the Syntactica technology can be integrated into Internet search engines to produce a relevant abstract of the text information in real-time. In short, Syntactica can instantly compress massive amounts of electronic English text into meaningful short abstracts.
TextDigger helps websites improve the findability of their web-based content by providing scalable solutions for related search, automatic tagging, keyword generation, and text rephrasing. These solutions leverage TextDigger’s proprietary semantic technology to make web pages easier to find and navigate. In addition, the Company also has a semantic search engine, Digger.com, which is in private beta.
The Object Management Group (OMG™) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a wide range of technologies and an even wider range of industries. OMG's modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes, including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG's middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries.
Project10X is a Washington DC based research consultancy specializing in next wave semantic technologies, knowledge-centric solutions, and web 3.0 business models. Clients include research institutions, information and communications technology manufacturers, global 2000 corporations, government agencies, and Web 3.0 start-ups. Project10X publishes the Semantic Wave industry research reports, and is a founding member of the Semantic Exchange industry education initiative.
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Talis is a well established innovative software business, and a global leader in the research and application of Semantic Web technologies. We provide an open technology platform that is transforming our existing products and enabling rapid development of a new generation of semantically rich applications and services. Delivered Software as a Service (SaaS), the Talis Platform provides solid infrastructure for the Semantic Web and is being used today by Talis and partners in our developer program to deliver innovative new applications and services. Talis is privately owned and headquartered in the UK.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. W3C primarily pursues its mission through the creation of Web standards and guidelines designed to ensure long-term growth for the Web. W3C is creating the core technologies for the Semantic Web, a framework for sharing data across application, enterprise, and community boundaries.
To this end, W3C continues to build on its existing standards RDF, SPARQL, OWL, and GRDDL. Over 400 organizations are Members of the Consortium. For more information see http://www.w3.org/
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