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Since 2000, Semantic Arts has worked with 90 organizations in 16 industries, from global banks and pharmaceutical companies to state agencies and research institutes. Start with a case study, or find your industry in the full client list.

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Why do some of these companies appear more than once here? Because our clients bring us back again and again for new and continued projects.

Financial services

Broadridge: Legacy Understanding

Investment Bank: Compliance and Team Conduct · Data Meaning · Economic Architecture · Operational Risk · Records and Retention Management · Resolution Planning · Risk and Controls

Major Credit Card Processor: Integrated Customer View

Morgan Stanley: Data-Centric Journey

Sallie Mae: Enterprise Ontology · SOA Messages

Healthcare and life sciences

Amgen: Data-Centric Architecture

Harvard Pilgrim: Canonical Modeling

Sentara Healthcare: Enterprise Ontology

Government and public sector

Colorado Child Support Enforcement: SOA Architecture

International Monetary Fund: Internal Knowledge Portal

Teacher Retirement System: Enterprise Architecture

Washington State: Enterprise Ontology · Entity Identification · Secretary of State · SOA Design · SOA Ontology

Washington State: Department of Labor: Enterprise Referral · Long Range Plan · Security · Web Services

Telecommunications

PCCW Global: Telecom Network

Verizon: Privacy Compliance

Professional services

Management Consulting: Enterprise Search · Privacy

Manufacturing and industrial

Chemical Manufacturer: Faceted Taxonomies

Chemicals Company: Ontology Development

Procter & Gamble: Enterprise Ontology

Schneider Electric: Product Catalog

Siemens: XSearch and Engineering Ontology

World Minerals: ERP Feasibility

Information services and media

Dun & Bradstreet: Identity Resolution

LexisNexis: Enterprise Ontology

S&P Global: Commodity Insights

S&P Global Platts: Data Aggregation · Identity Resolution

“Dave McComb is brilliant, easy to work with and delivers what he promises.”

Bob Blewis

IT General Manager, World Minerals, Inc.

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Consumer Products

Arbonne · Carlei Green Vineyards · Procter and Gamble

What we did

Arbonne: Designed a structured approach to keep track of the complex sharing arrangements among upstream and downstream sellers
Carlei Green Vineyards: Built a distribution system based on an enterprise ontology for this wine importer and distributor
Procter and Gamble: Harmonized the language across multiple domains via the development of an enterprise ontology to support initiatives in research and development

Data Publishing

Center for Internet Security · Dun & Bradstreet · Equifax · Euromonitor · Industry Building Blocks LLC · LexisNexis · McGraw Hill-Platts · Moody’s Corporation · Reed Business Inc · S&P Global Commodity Insights · S&P Global Platts · Wolters Kluwer

What we did

Center for Internet Security: Designed cyber security ontology and are migrating their controls, benchmarks, and safeguards to the model
Dun & Bradstreet: Built a faceted metadata mapping system to allow them to map data sets and APIs across product lines
Equifax: Strategic advisory on the use of semantics after one of the largest data breaches in history
Euromonitor: Architectural design to unify detailed product and pricing taxonomies
Industry Building Blocks LLC: Designed the ontology and built a knowledge graph of over 24,000 industries to enable analysis for M&A, joint venture exploration, brand strategy, segmentation, and targeted marketing
LexisNexis: Built an enterprise ontology from existing logical models into a single ontology for integrating case law with other statutory product lines
McGraw Hill-Platts: Designed an ontology and loaded supporting metadata to harmonize commodity symbology in support of complex analytics and trading arbitrage
Moody’s Corporation: Customized training on semantics and knowledge graph
Reed Business Inc: Customized training on semantics and knowledge graph
S&P Global Commodity Insights: Built a knowledge graph of information about specific combinations of commodity grade, location, terms, etc. that affect the pricing of commodities
S&P Global Platts: Customized training on semantics and knowledge graph
Wolters Kluwer: Built an ontology of their corporate tax and accounting solutions area

Extractive

Chevron

What we did

Chevron: Strategic advisory on ontology and knowledge graph related to semantic reconciliation of enterprise metadata and information exchange across repositories

Financial Services

Broadridge · Capital One · Citi · Credit Suisse · Federal Reserve Bank NY · Freddie Mac · Goldman Sachs · JP Morgan · Morgan Stanley · Sallie Mae · Wells Fargo

What we did

Broadridge: Unified and integrated three back-office processing engines as part of a major data fabric initiative
Capital One: Strategic advisory to help stand up their ontology practice for the 360-degree client service initiative
Citi: Strategic advisory and training on how to design and build ontologies
Credit Suisse: Strategic advisory and training on how to design and build ontologies
Federal Reserve Bank NY: Strategic advisory on the integration of structured and unstructured data
Freddie Mac: Created an ontology of the mortgage industry and helped them reconcile enterprise architecture initiatives that had drifted apart
Goldman Sachs: Delivered a series of projects on their financial inventory taxonomy, risk ontology, and resolution planning system
JP Morgan: Strategic advisory and training workshop for their Bournemouth group
Morgan Stanley: Multiple projects supporting their adoption of RDF graph and semantic knowledge base to answer domain-specific questions, formulate classification recommendations, and deliver quality search to their internal users
Sallie Mae: Built an enterprise ontology for loans to facilitate a single view of their customers loan portfolio
Wells Fargo: Customized training on semantics and knowledge graph

Government

Central Intelligence Agency · Colorado Child Support Enforcement · International Atomic Energy Agency · Joint Planning and Development Office (JPOD) & Alion Science and Technology · MIMOS Malaysia · Mississippi Department of Transportation · Swiss Chancellery · Texas Teacher Retirement System · US National Agricultural Library · US Navy · Washington Department of Labor and Industries · Washington Secretary of State · Washington State Department of Transportation · Washington State Employment and Security Division · Washington State Office of Financial Management

What we did

Central Intelligence Agency: Strategic advisory on the application of semantic capabilities to support the Agency’s mission
Colorado Child Support Enforcement: A series of projects to help them understand their future architecture including how to simplify implementation using a common semantic model
International Atomic Energy Agency: Strategic advisory services and workshops on the application of semantics to detect unauthorized use of radioactive material
Joint Planning and Development Office (JPOD) & Alion Science and Technology: Strategic advisory on a joint project including the FAA, NASA, Department of Transportation, and the Air Force
MIMOS Malaysia: Conducted training and led strategic planning on the adoption of semantics for this strategic R&D arm of the Malaysian government
Mississippi Department of Transportation: Provided strategic advisory services on information systems architecture
Swiss Chancellery: Customized training on semantics and knowledge graph
Texas Teacher Retirement System: Designed an enterprise architecture to help keep track of the pension funds of both active and retired teachers
US National Agricultural Library: Customized training on semantics and knowledge graph
US Navy: Strategic advisory on the development of their enterprise cost management framework
Washington Department of Labor and Industries: Strategic advisory and long-range systems architecture for continuity planning and technology risk mediation
Washington Secretary of State: Feasibility, requirements analysis, and design of a system designed to replace their existing registration systems
Washington State Department of Transportation: Designed an ontology of transportation and Service Oriented Architecture for SOA messaging
Washington State Employment and Security Division: Built an ontology and helped them implement a modular strategy for data integration designed to reconcile the content from multiple proprietary systems
Washington State Office of Financial Management: Strategic advisory on how to reduce the complexity of their financial activity records management

Healthcare Delivery

MD Anderson Cancer Center · Mount Sinai · Providence Healthcare · Sentara Healthcare

What we did

MD Anderson Cancer Center: Built an ontology for COVID-19 and cancer comorbidity as part of their knowledge base for precision oncology
Mount Sinai: Assisted the hospital system with conforming data sets to their clinical ontology
Providence Healthcare: Strategic advisory and analytics training for their semantic technology group
Sentara Healthcare: Developed an integrated ontology for secure healthcare delivery focused on asthmatic hospital admissions and external data sources

Insurance

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care · Nationwide Insurance

What we did

Harvard Pilgrim Health Care: Strategic advisory assessment of their existing enterprise data model and plan on how to leverage the EDM to create messages for their service oriented architecture
Nationwide Insurance: Built an ontology of the insurance industry and then conformed several data sets to it to answer domain-specific questions

Manufacturing

DuPont · International Surface Preparation Corporation · Juniper Networks · Koch Industries · Schneider Electric · ThermoFisher · Xylem Design

What we did

DuPont: Strategic advisory to help them understand how to apply semantic capabilities and knowledge graph to their internal processes
International Surface Preparation Corporation: Performed a risk assessment and strategic plan on the integration of legacy systems
Juniper Networks: Designed an enterprise ontology and conformed several data streams (software defects, product configurations, sales data) to trace clients impacted by newly discovered software flaws
Koch Industries: Strategic advisory to their Data-Centric Counsel
Schneider Electric: Built an enterprise ontology to support the complexity of their product catalog including all physical and electrical characteristics, product compatibility, and conformance to standards
ThermoFisher: Strategic advisory on the design of their data catalog
Xylem Design: Strategic advisory on integrating their various accounting systems

Media

APM Music · Disney

What we did

APM Music: Created a taxonomy of music genres to enable clients to find music tracks in context
Disney: Designed a digital asset management system to unite various digital properties and support cross-division marketing

Nonprofit

EDM Council · Institute for Advertising and Media Statistics · International Monetary Fund

What we did

EDM Council: Contributed to authoring the loans and mortgages content of the Financial Industry Business Ontology (FIBO)
Institute for Advertising and Media Statistics: Strategic advisory on semantic capabilities for IRM
International Monetary Fund: Constructed an enterprise ontology and internal knowledge graph covering the core business of the IMF for integrating both structured and unstructured data

Pharmaceutical

Amgen · AstraZeneca · Bayer · Eli Lilly · European Bioinformatics · Johnson & Johnson · Novartis

What we did

Amgen: Implemented ontology modeling and knowledge engineering projects designed to develop a common language for drug discovery, biologics production, animal studies, and research for product development
AstraZeneca: Strategic advisory on ontology and knowledge graphs for their research and development group
Bayer: Strategic advisory and training on semantics and knowledge graph
Eli Lilly: Strategic advisory on how semantics can be used as the basis for a Service Oriented Architecture
European Bioinformatics: Strategic advisory on knowledge management for a consortium of pharmaceutical companies
Johnson & Johnson: Strategic advisory and training on how to design and build business ontologies
Novartis: Customized training on semantics and knowledge graph

Professional Services

Institute for Defense Analyses · McKinsey · PwC · Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute · YogaHoly-Days

What we did

Institute for Defense Analyses: Designed their enterprise ontology to support data integration between their existing systems
McKinsey: Strategic advisory and customized training on the practical implications of semantics and knowledge graph
PwC: Developed and built an ontology of proposals, projects, key people, and areas of consultant proficiency to support business development and the assignment of talent
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute: A series of advisory projects to facilitate data integration
YogaHoly-Days: Designed an ontology for destination yoga

Religion

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints · Treasury of Lives

What we did

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: Strategic advisory on the use of semantic capabilities for genealogy record keeping
Treasury of Lives: Built an ontology for their online encyclopedia of Tibetan and Buddhist teachings

Software

BeInformed · Cerebra · Commerce One · discourse.ai · Electronic Arts · Fiserv · Global IDs · Omatic Software · Payzer · RevenueBase · Siemens Digital · Stone River · Visual Meaning

What we did

BeInformed: Strategic advisory on the redesign of their work flow management system in the material and safety data area
Cerebra: Strategic advisory and training curriculum for their server based semantic engine
Commerce One: Strategic advisory and training curriculum for this eCommerce firm
discourse.ai: Built an ontology of conversations to help clients respond to changes in their environment
Electronic Arts: Several projects to help the marketing department design and build ontologies and taxonomies of electronic games
Fiserv: Strategic advisory on the use of long duration business transactions (and model driven development) in the design of their systems
Global IDs: Strategic advisory on data profiling and identity resolution
Omatic Software: Designed the ontology for HVAC and plumbing resellers and conformed their product catalog data for project management and budget control
Payzer: Designed the ontology for HVAC and plumbing resellers and conformed their product catalog data for project management and budget control
RevenueBase: Strategic advisory on tools and platforms for taxonomy management
Siemens Digital: Helped design a new model to subsume data from many of their most complex products to facilitate semantic enterprise search
Stone River: Domain modeling, architectural planning, and training to teach their enterprise architects RDF and OWL
Visual Meaning: Developed an ontology and visualization tool of “Highways England” to help users understand their data and to facilitate integration with other sources

Telecom

PCCW Global Telecom Network · Verizon

What we did

PCCW Global Telecom Network: Managed the transformation from multiple data silos into a single knowledge graph to enhance customer service and optimize their capital investments
Verizon: Built a knowledge graph as a single source of privacy metadata to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements