A couple of days ago, I got the question what it takes for organizations to adopt business semantics. Except for a set of good semantic tools backed by an agile and step-wise methodology, the organization also has to have a certain information maturity level. The Meta Group (acquired by Gartner) defined an Information Maturity Model [...]
On Wednesday, November 25th, DAMA BeLux organizes their next conference. This time, it is hosted by Deloitte and SAP, and the event is held at the SAP Lounge in Vilvoorde (Laurent-Benoit Dewezplein 5, Vilvoorde).
The agenda is strong, and contain traces of semantics here and there:
Enterprise Model Engineering: Ensuring Quality in Information Systems Dr. Monique Snoeck, Professor, KU [...]
Collibra at IRM’s DM&IQ and DW&BI conference
Last Tuesday and Wednesday, Collibra presented its Business Semantics Management to a wider audience of very experienced data management, data governance and BI professionals. We got great feedback and a lot of enthusiastic reactions (ranging from ‘brilliant’ to ‘this is what companies should have been doing already 20 years [...]
Last Thursday and Friday, Collibra presented its approach to Business Semantics Management in the context of Service-Oriented Architecture. Gartner has just issued their requirements for SOA infrastructure, and as we had expected they contain several requirements for the field of semantics. Despite this fact, Collibra was the only semantic technology company present at the SOA Symposium in Rotterdam.
As most [...]
I recently came across an article by Mark Radoff, a senior consultant at Ovum. Ovum is one of the partners in the European project VALUE-IT, which aims to establish dynamic links between research and business environments. I got introduced to the project earlier when Mike Davis (also at Ovum) presented the intermediary project results at [...]