Evolve your Non-Temporal Database in Place

At Semantic Arts, we recently decided to upgrade our internal system to turn something that was a not temporal (our billing rates) into something that was. Normally, that would be a pretty big change.  As it turned out, it was pretty straightforward and could be done,...

Introduction to FIBO Quick Start

We have just launched our “FIBO Quick start” offering.  If you are in the financial industry you likely have heard about the Financial Industry Business Ontology, which has been championed by the EDM Council, a consortium of virtually the entire...

Semantic Modeling: Getting to the Core

Most large organizations have a lot of data and very little useful information. The reason being, every time they encounter a problem, they build (or more often buy) another computer application system. Each application has its own completely arbitrary data model...