TEMIS, the leading provider of semantic content enrichment solutions for the enterprise, and MarkLogic Corporation, provider of the only enterprise NoSQL database, have announced they are extending their partnership to deliver world-class content enrichment over unstructured Big Data. With new, enhanced integration capabilities, TEMIS’ Luxid® and MarkLogic® Server can now help organizations do more with their content. Read more

thē Corporation is excited to announce its latest partnership to represent Coginov and its products to the US market. Coginov is a Montreal, Canada based company that is privately held and specializes in semantic search-based products and technologies that solve big data issues for multiple industries including healthcare, utilities and call centers just to name a few.

“Coginov will be a unique addition to the umbrella of software and technology companies that thē Corporation represents. Structured data and data analytics is a problem that many companies have focused their efforts on but what is really exciting is the power of unstructured data categorization and analytics that Coginov brings,” stated Steve Bederman, CEO of thē Corporation. Read more

Waqar Hasan, who in a past life was vp for data platforms at Yahoo, hasn’t lost his fascination with the power a business can gain when it knows what to do with its data – make that its Big Data. Now CEO of InsightsOne, Hasan and his company are focused on making predictive analytics accessible to the general B2C marketing organization via the cloud.

Among its early customers is online review site Angie’s List, which in mid-January selected the cloud-based predictive analytics solution to deliver a 1-to-1 consumer marketing experience to its members.

“We’re targeting B2C marketers to increase the relevance and profitability of their consumer interactions, by applying micro-segmentation on Big Data to extract all sorts of signals from the data and turn it to a more powerful predictor for the future – who will buy what and who is likely to churn,” Hasan says.

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Emil Eifrem, CEO of Neo Technology recently opined that graphs offer a new way of thinking. He explains, “Faced with the need to generate ever-greater insight and end-user value, some of the world’s most innovative companies — Google, Facebook, Twitter, Adobe and American Express among them — have turned to graph technologies to tackle the complexity at the heart of their data. To understand how graphs address data complexity, we need first to understand the nature of the complexity itself. In practical terms, data gets more complex as it gets bigger, more semi-structured, and more densely connected.” Read more

Dow Jones & Company’s Factiva information service has long been distinguished by the semantic tools it applies to its content to surface relevant search information. Last week the company announced what it says is one of the most significant investments it’s made in the Factiva product suite, licensing new search technology from MarkLogic Corp.

The arrangement is positioned as providing standardized search technology across the Dow Jones digital network, including Factiva, WSJ.com and Dow Jones Financial Services products. To be specific, the investment in one underlying search technology that will be used by the company’s multiple businesses and products means that, “one powerful, unified search platform will service the search needs of our consumer and enterprise customers around the world,” says Georgene Huang, head of Factiva. “Any improvements or customizations we build atop this infrastructure will be scalable and efficiently accessible to all.” That will allow better and easier synergies between the development, products and the content, she says.

The new search technology, Huang says, complements its continuing investment in Factiva’s core metadata and taxonomy strengths in many ways.

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In the same way that Columbus “discovered” a New World that was already there, more businesses may be about to discover the world of semantic web technology that’s been there all along.

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Their expeditions in this direction, not surprisingly, are likely to have a Big Data hook. In a recent survey, New Vantage Partners queried the connection, asking respondents, “What data structures and standards are of particular interest in your Big Data initiatives?.” It listing among the choices flat-file, relational, graphs, and yes, Semantic Web technology.

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IBM reports that the company is putting Watson to work: “Watson’s cognitive capabilities were designed to take on the real-world challenges of Big Data across a range of industries. From the outset, the aim was to put Watson to work first in healthcare and finance. Both industries confront deluges of unstructured data every day, and both industries have a compelling need to act on information quickly… While the Jeopardy! challenge demonstrated Watson’s ability to provide a single correct answer with confidence, IBM envisions the underlying technology moving toward a broader range of applications and industries to provide evidence-based decision support over large volumes of variable content.” Read more

Bryan Bell of Cogito reports that financial companies are wise to turn to semantic metadata for better Big Data analytics. Bell writes, “Financial institutions are looking to linguistics and semantics as the best option for managing and taking advantage of their unstructured data, using it to better understand customers and competitors, to identify impactful market trends or simply to automate the process of answering common customer questions. As one Chief Data Officer put it, ‘We are the stewards of one of our firms’ most important assets, data, and we have been charged with bringing meaning to the data. I believe semantics offers a consistent, long-term capability and change in how data will be managed’.” Read more

The latest version of the StreamGlider iPad news reader app for providing consumers with topic-oriented streams of information debuted this week. It brought with it the capability to limit hashtag or keyword searches in a Twitter, YouTube, or Flickr frame to a local area and turn on geo-awareness at the user’s request. But the bigger and more semantic event will be StreamGlider’s upcoming move to the enterprise, with the consumer app serving as a showcase to those potential customers.

StreamGlider CEO Bill McDaniel – also CEO of SemantiStar, which developed the application that The Semantic Web Blog first covered here and here – says to expect in the enterprise edition a very interesting semantic search/semantic relations engine in the background for correlating up to three data sets of semi-structured, unstructured and structured data. The company already is working with one client on a specific application of the generic technology for its custom needs, and talking to a second customer about a pilot around the idea.

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TEMIS has selected ISYS to power its Luxid semantic content enrichment platform. According to the announcement, “Luxid® extracts actionable metadata from unstructured content to support search, exploration, and content analytics processes. This enables the smarter delivery by publishers of relevant content to end-users, along with more powerful knowledge discovery in strategic corporate applications. These include competitive intelligence, scientific discovery, voice of the customer, as well as content and information management.” Read more