Setting the scene
The image below displays a simplified view of every large organization: an organizational border (represented by the outer circle), an HQ that needs consolidated information (represented in the inner circle), customers (represented by the “dollarized” houses), orders (represented by the trucks moving inside), order-processing units (represented by the factories that receive the trucks), [...]
According to Pieter, Business Semantics Management (BSM) is:
the set of activities to bring business stakeholders together to collaboratively realize the reconciliation of their heterogeneous metadata; and consequently the application of the derived business semantics patterns to establish semantic alignment between the underlying data structures.
The picture above gives a good overview of the two different phases [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In this post, I’d like to review some of the challenges of using a shared or canonical information model for application integration. While a shared information model looks great in theory, it’s a tough exercise in practise. But by all means, solving these challenges is worth it because the benefits are significant. In a [...]
Everybody knows the Pizza Ontology that has been used for ages now to demonstrate tools and methods in the Semantic Web community. Nowadays the Beer Ontology is gaining interest, and I wonder how many concept types the Belgian beer namespace will consist, as there is no clear enumeration of that Anyway, when talking about [...]
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I recently read Booz Allen Hamilton’s lessons on social software in a blog post on ReadWriteWeb. Because a sustainable approach to semantics can only materialize via the contributing stakeholders, Enterprise 2.0 initiatives are important for Business Semantics Management (BSM).
This blog post briefly summarizes the lessons, read the article on ReadWriteWeb for more details. The 5 [...]
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 [...]