Washington State: SOA Design  The long-range plan at L&I called for organizing their future application initiatives around shared services and shared messages on a message bus.  In this project we created detailed requirements specs for the dozen major shared services and created an inventory of the key messages they would need to form the backbone...Continue reading→

Washington State: Secretary of State  We were engaged to perform a feasibility and requirements study for the Corporations and  Charities Division of the Office of the Secretary of State. In our proposal we included  developing a semantic model to help clarify the feasibility and requirements. Another key part of the requirements was to examine some...Continue reading→

Washington State: Entity Identification We were retained to help with this two-pronged project. One prong was to create a feasibility study to determine whether collecting additional data from employers would aid  in targeting workplace safety inspections.  The other half of the project was to do a high-level redesign and feasibility study on how  they were...Continue reading→

Washington State: Enterprise Ontology 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 systems all geared toward getting out-of-work workers back to work.  One...Continue reading→

Investment Bank Case Study: Records and Retention Management 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 with record classification information to aid in...Continue reading→

Investment Bank: Data Meaning 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 like this stock. “… will continue to face headwinds”  is not...Continue reading→

International Monetary Fund  The IMF works to achieve sustainable growth for its approximately 200 member countries.  It carries out missions and loans funds to execute projects for the member countries. The countries’ financial situation is measured and tracked using a wide variety of economic indicators.  The challenge: Information is stored in a wide variety of...Continue reading→

Dun & Bradstreet  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 analytic project to inventory all the elements that were part of at...Continue reading→

Chemical and Science Manufacturer  Capturing interrelations of information for relevance can be difficult, even with NLP. More often companies will seek to work in taxonomy space in their journey toward richer implementations of knowledge graphs for automation adoption. Our consulting services leveraged this approach to provide a foundation stepping stone as the company sought to...Continue reading→

Major Credit Card Processor  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. It turned out that each part of the business...Continue reading→