Industry Direction & Approaches for Developing Your Semantic Roadmap

Semantic Technologies Call 4
Our final call in the series will look at the future or semantic technologies and what capabilities are on the horizon.  Where does the industry expect to be in 3- 5 years?  Though advances in technology adoption are notoriously difficult to predict, there are certain drivers that will almost assure some uptake of these approaches. 

In that context, it is important for your organization to begin the planning process and explore opportunities to build out certain capabilities.  We will outline approaches for finding opportunities in your organization for pilot projects and exploring the benefits of semantic technologies.  We’ll discuss what appropriate applications look like, organizational and industry drivers, cost benefit analysis, and ways of mitigating risks for these kinds of initiatives. 
 
This session is a must for business and technology leaders who want to ensure their organizations do not get caught short as competitors inevitably adopt these approaches to managing information. 

The Final Mile Challenge: Putting Semantic Technology to Work in the Enterprise
Presented by Keith Hawker
Business Managers are frustrated that the data they require to help them make critical decisions is often scattered across many different systems and difficult to get to and understand.

Semantic Technology holds the promise of being able to address this problem by giving clear meaning to data, but is the effort worth the trouble?

This presentation, titled “The Final Mile Challenge”, explains that combining it with rules processing gives an unequivocal yes to this question. Data can be brought together from many different sources and understood in a single conceptual model, allowing rules to assess what is known and take action based on these facts. Through the use of case studies from Financial Services, Integrated Justice, Life Sciences and Manufacturing, the following key points will be made:

• Case studies will show that Semantic Technology does deliver on its promise
• Semantic Technology provides the key that unlocks the ability to bring data together
• In conjunction with a rules engine, new event-driven business applications can be developed that deliver huge productivity gains

Semantic Technology can bring the right information to the right person understood in context to help them make critical decisions.

An Enterprise Roadmap for Semantic Technology
Presented by Uche Ogbuji
Industry experts have been awakening recently to the exceptional power of the Web to integrate information systems, and how it should be applied within the enterprise.  You've heard of Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Mashups and the like.  These are generally shallow attempts to translate Web concepts to traditional IT.  It is important not to miss the key ingredient for successfully harnessing the power of Web architecture--semantic technology.  We all know the power of the Web comes with chaos--wide-ranging workflow conventions, mallware and more. Semantic technology adapts traditional business analysis and enterprise architecture to temper the chaos without losing the power.

This session connects the prevailing industry trend towards Semantic technology to the characteristics of enterprises, giving you tools for assessing your organization's readiness, and determining the best launch points.  It's a practical guide using specific case studies to help you get started using semantic technology to finally reconcile information technology with business imperatives, and to save costs and avoid failures in architecture and integration projects.