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Sentara Healthcare: Enterprise Ontology
by Semantic Arts | Healthcare & Life Sciences
Sentara Healthcare is an integrated healthcare organization, including hospitals, clinics, home health, assisted living, and health insurance. They employ 23,000 people, primarily in Southern Virginia. We worked with them to build what we believe to be the first integrated ontology […]
Washington Department of Labor & Industries: Web Services
by Semantic Arts | Government & Public Sector
One of the shared services we designed in the Department of Labor & Industries' long-term plan was “Web Facing Services.” When it was time to implement this, they asked us to help them define the requirements and select a software […]
Washington Department of Labor & Industries: Security
by Semantic Arts | Government & Public Sector
The Department of Labor & Industries, like most organizations, has implemented security separately for each of its applications. The more applications you get, the more redundancy is introduced, and the more likely it is that you are inconsistently applying the […]
Washington Department of Labor & Industries: Referral Tracking
by Semantic Arts | Government & Public Sector
We were retained by the Washington Department of Labor & Industries to determine if it was feasible to design and build an “Enterprise Referral Tracking System.” One of the first challenges was to figure out what constituted a referral. After […]
S&P Platts: Identity Resolution
by Semantic Arts | Information Services & Media
If you turn on the news and hear that Brent Crude is trading at $19 a barrel (did it really get to $19 dollars? Yes, it did, we’re living in strange times), it’s very likely that it was Platts that […]
Procter & Gamble
by Semantic Arts | Manufacturing & Industrial
Research & Development: 500 concepts across every discipline Procter & Gamble have over 10,000 people working in Research & Development. They believe that innovations in one part of the organization might offer inspiration to researchers in another part but communicating […]
S&P Global Commodity Insights
by Semantic Arts | Information Services & Media
S&P Global Commodity Insights (formerly known as Platts) provides benchmark price assessments for the physical commodities markets. As we have noted before, if you hear on the news that Brent Crude is trading at $100 a barrel, it’s likely that […]
Sallie Mae: SOA Message Generation
by Semantic Arts | Financial Services
On a previous project we worked with Sallie Mae to build an enterprise ontology for their loan business. After the ontology was complete, they decided to outsource a new line of loans to a third-party SaaS vendor. Shortly after making […]
Sallie Mae: Enterprise Ontology
by Semantic Arts | Financial Services
We were retained by the leading provider of Student Loans to build an enterprise ontology. Just over 1,000 concepts, a dramatic reduction in complexity We conducted over a dozen workshops and facilitated brainstorming sessions and many dozen more one-on-one interviews, […]
Broadridge: Legacy Understanding
by Semantic Arts | Financial Services
This firm processes some 70% of all the back office of Wall Street. They have three major systems, for different types of financial instruments and jurisdictions. The three systems are barely integrated. Bringing a client up on any of their […]
Teacher Retirement System: Enterprise Architecture
by Semantic Arts | Government & Public Sector
The Teacher Retirement System is one of the largest pension funds in the country, with 1 million active teachers and 250,000 retirees. They run the organization on a series of aging mainframe systems. In the late 90s, they attempted a […]
Washington Department of Labor & Industries: Long-Range Plan
by Semantic Arts | Government & Public Sector
Our first project with Labor & Industries started as an investigation of what dependencies their many applications had on technology that might become technically obsolete, thereby putting them at risk. We did this, and developed a high-level conceptual model, “as-is” […]
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