Smartlogic Makes the Case for Semantic Software and The Enterprise Semantic Platform in KMWorld White Paper 'The Advantage of Openness'

Businesses are once again reliant on specialised skills in the hands of a few to unlock their information assets. Just as in the "closed data world of the 1970s" before the development of relational databases and business intelligence layers which unlocked corporate data so today it is enterprise information that is not as freely accessible as people require. Again because it has to be 'unlocked' - by enterprise search specialists and others  'in the know' - before an organisation can harness the value of its information assets. In the meantime, businesses have to spend too much money, wait too long for projects to complete or just have to make do – all with the consequence of poor performance.

This is an excerpt taken from Bentley's white paper 'The Advantage of Openness', one of a series published by KMWorld magazine, the leading information provider serving the knowledge management systems market.

Jeremy Bentley makes the case for semantic software and how it can improve search and therefore business performance: "Just as the gap between closed and open data was filled by new approaches in the 70s, so too will the gap between limited search and productive find. This new approach requires a layer of semantic software." The 'openness' of Semaphore is key to offering a 'new layer' that lies between the user interface and content technology, providing the semantic software solution to the problems of information search and knowledge management.

As an ontology management system, the enterprise semantic platform enables an enterprise to maintain controlled and social vocabularies - semantic models - that describe the information domain, provide the context making semantic content classification possible.

Enterprise semantic software delivers advantage by making it possible for a business to model its domain, and then organize, automate and communicate its information according to this model. This means that search engine precision is enhanced, the quality of metadata is improved, CMS implementations are sped up, unstructured information can be integrated from multiple repositories, compliance processes can be automated and the user experience that is offered to clients, staff and partners will be exceptional.