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Washington State: Enterprise Ontology
by Semantic Arts | Government & Public Sector
The Employment Security Division (ESD) manages Unemployment Insurance and Claims and have a very active program to help people get back to work. We were engaged to help them determine a strategy for integrating into what had become three major […]
Investment Bank: Records and Retention Management
by Semantic Arts | Financial Services
This major investment bank was found in contempt of court and massively fined for their incoherent approach to records and retention management. Up to this point the prevailing approach had been to allow data stewards to tag documents and systems […]
Investment Bank: Data Meaning
by Semantic Arts | Financial Services
Have you ever read an analyst’s report? They are full of strange turns of phrase. The phrase “we continue to overweight [stock x]” is not a reference to obesity or a lack of a weight watcher program, it means they […]
Investment Bank: Compliance and Team Conduct
by Semantic Arts | Financial Services
We often come across use cases that particularly highlight the power of RDF knowledge graphs. One such case involves the analysis of a simple violations dataset to explore complex trends surrounding team culture and conduct within a large investment bank. […]
Dun & Bradstreet
by Semantic Arts | Information Services & Media
Dun & Bradstreet sell data about company’s credit worthiness and their contact information. Every dataset and every API is its own “product” complete with its own metadata. With this approach for managing information comes excessive complexity. They did a massive […]
PCCW Global: Telecom Network
by Semantic Arts | Telecommunications
PCCW Global, a subsidiary of Hong Kong Telecom, is a communication service provider with global coverage. Semantic Arts worked with PCCW Global to improve visibility into assets available for customer service to optimize the value of billions of dollars of […]
Major Credit Card Processor
by Semantic Arts | Financial Services
In their migration to the cloud, this Credit Card Processor turned full-service bank, decided to tackle the problem that many large firms face—achieving an integrated view of their customer. We helped them define, semantically, what characteristics made someone a customer. […]
Colorado Child Support Enforcement
by Semantic Arts | Government & Public Sector
We have done a series of projects with Colorado Child Support Enforcement to help them understand, at a high level, how their future systems might look when they are partitioned, when they incorporate an SOA architecture, and when they conform […]
Schneider Electric Product Catalog
by Semantic Arts | Manufacturing & Industrial
Schneider Electric employs 160,000 employees in 140 countries. They make over 1 million industrial scale electric devices. We were retained to help them get more value out of their product catalog. We built a high-level version of their enterprise ontology […]
S&P Platts: Data Aggregation
by Semantic Arts | Information Services & Media
The commodity world has its own way of carving the world into manageable regions. We are accustomed to thinking that counties are in states, states in countries, and countries in continents. Even that has its exceptions. In the world of […]
Management Consulting: Privacy
by Semantic Arts | Professional Services
Every firm has a privacy problem. The advent of regulations such as GDPR and CCPA are bringing this to the forefront. Our client has a great reputation for helping their clients with these issues on an advisory basis, but they […]
Harvard Pilgrim: Canonical Modeling
by Semantic Arts | Healthcare & Life Sciences
Harvard Pilgrim is a major healthcare insurance company in New England. We had done some training and high-level design with them. When they began designing their SOA messages, they asked us to help them select tools to enable this. We […]
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