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Investment Bank: Risk and Controls
by Semantic Arts | Financial Services
This investment bank is required by regulators to assess their risk and controls on a quarterly basis. This is a very labor intensive process, as there are more than 5,000 controls that have to be assessed independently. In the process […]
Investment Bank: Economic Architecture
by Semantic Arts | Financial Services
We worked with a large investment bank who are embarking on a series of projects to further automate their back office. One of their first tasks was to understand in greater detail what all the 5,000 people in the back […]
Washington State: SOA Design and Ontology
by Semantic Arts | Government & Public Sector
In our initial engagement, we did a rapid but detailed review of 200 applications, interfaces, current initiatives, long-range plan, and a new system being proposed. We found several areas where they could leverage work in progress to speed up their […]
Ontology Consultant Job Description
by Dave McComb | News & Community
The ontology consultant role at Semantic Arts: what the work involves, the skills we look for, and what we offer.
Data-Centric Credentialling
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
A planned credentialling program for data-centric work at three levels: awards for client implementations, certification for software, and credentials for professional services.
The Data-Centric Graph Tech Stack
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
In brief: This post describes the technology stack for a data-centric project built on a graph database. Data is stored as triples (subject, predicate, and object), the schema emerges as classes and properties defined in the same graph, and even […]
Amgen: Data-Centric Architecture
by Semantic Arts | Healthcare & Life Sciences
Amgen is a large biotechnology company committed to unlocking the potential of biology for patients suffering from serious illnesses by discovering, developing, manufacturing, and delivering innovative human therapeutics. Amgen, CEO Bob Bradway focuses on innovation to set the cultural direction. […]
A BFO-ready version of gist
by Dave McComb | gist & Open Standards
The Federal Government and Life Sciences companies are moving toward adoption of the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO). We have aligned the Semantic Arts foundational ontology (gist) with BFO to help these communities. This paper describes how and why we did […]
Understanding the Graph Center of Excellence
by Dave McComb | Graph & Platform Strategy
The Knowledge Management community has gotten good at extracting and curating knowledge. There is a confluence of activity—including generative AI models, digital twins, and shared ledger capabilities that are having a profound impact on enterprises. Recent research by analysts at […]
The Data-Centric Revolution: Putting Knowledge Into Our Knowledge Graphs
by Dave McComb | Knowledge Graphs & Ontologies
Knowledge graphs hold plenty of data and little knowledge, while knowledge management has knowledge and nowhere to put it. How a knowledge graph can carry knowledge, track where it came from, and bring it forward when it's needed.
The Data-Centric Revolution: Dealing with Data Complexity
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
Complexity is the root data problem. A 10,000-person firm may manage about a million concepts, while its core model needs fewer than 1,000. Three strategies for dealing with complexity, and the one that works.
Data-Centric: How Big Things Get Done (in IT)
by Dave McComb | Data-Centric Architecture
Dave McComb In brief: How Big Things Get Done, by Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner, draws on a database of 38,000 large projects to show why so many run over budget. This review notes the finding that IT projects overrun […]
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