S&P Platts: Identity Resolution 

S&P Platts: Identity Resolution  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 determined this price....

S&P Global Commodity Insights

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 S&P...

Sallie Mae: SOA Message Generation

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 that decision, they realized that...

Sallie Mae: Enterprise Ontology

We were retained by the leading provider of Student Loans to build an enterprise ontology.  We conducted over a dozen workshops and facilitated brainstorming sessions and many  dozen more one-on-one interviews, and reviewed reams of documentation. In the end we...

Investment Bank Risk and Controls

Investment Bank Risk and Controls 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 office were...