Abstract
In the past decade, significant budgets have been invested in the development of Semantic Technologies. In this chapter, relevant factors are laid out for semantic technology adoption and a framework is provided for describing and understanding the value proposition of semantic technology from a business point of view. An overview will be shown of the current semantic offering in the market place, and this will be interpreted in terms of the framework. Finally, three adoption horizons will be introduced for when semantic technology can be expected to reach the mainstream market and what role it will play in organizations. Overall, the conclusion is that there is some uptake of the technology, but that the mainstream market is still not reached. This is partly because of a lack of understanding by industries of in what situations semantic technologies can add value to their business. This is the reason for introducing a new framework that is aimed at enabling industries to more easily relate semantic technologies to their business.
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The work reported in this chapter has been partially funded by the European Commission in the context of the Value-IT project.
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Appendices
Annex 1: STE Suppliers Company Listing
1.1 Company Selection
Companies were selected from the following sources.
1.1.1 STE-Related Web Pages
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Semantic Exchange: http://www.semanticexchange.com
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Semantic Report: http://www.semanticreport.com
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Semantic Website: http://www.semanticweb.com
1.1.2 EU-Funded Project and Commercial Reports
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Neon, Knowledge Web Deliverables
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Semantic Wave 2008 Report: Industry Roadmap to Web 3.0 and Multibillion Dollar Market Opportunities.: http://www.project10x.com/index.php
1.1.3 Conference Assistants
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International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC)
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European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC)
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Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech)
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European Semantic Technology Conference (ESTC)
Universities and public research centers are excluded from this study. Private research centers, R&D departments of big IT players have been included, since they usually transfer new technologies into the commercial portfolio (as was the case of Oracle, Yahoo!, SAP, etc.).
According to ones understanding of the STE, the following types of companies have been excluded from this listing:
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Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology based companies that may use the term of “semantics” for part of the NLP.
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Web development companies that may use microformats or RSS functionalities sometimes tagged as Semantic Technologies.
1.2 Company Description Fields
For each company included in this report, the following information is described:
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Name: Company name.
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URL: Corporate website. Almost all information included in this report was extracted from the corporate website of the companies.
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Sectors: According to company solutions and customers, the following sectors have been identified: Automotive, Defense, Public Sector, Energy, Health Care, Tourism, eCommerce, Retail, Financial, Media, Legal, Telco, Pharma, Academic and Educational, Advertising, IT.
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Areas: For each company, where information available, one or more semantic solution areas have been assigned related to their products or services: Knowledge Management, Information Access, Enterprise Application Integration, Content Management, Document Management, Customer Relation Management, Productivity Tools, Security and Intelligence, Social Networks, Business Intelligence, Business Process Management.
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Technologies: For each company, where information available, one or more semantic technologies have been assigned related to their products or services: Search, Document Tagging, Document Classification, Information Extraction, Semantic SOA, Modeling, Data Integration, Inference and Reasoning, Knowledge Publishing, Knowledge Storage, Hardware.
Supplier | URL | Areas | Technologies | Sectors |
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AdaptiveBlue | Productivity Tool | |||
Aduna | Information Access, Content Management | Knowledge Publishing, Modeling | Public Sector, Media | |
Agilense | Enterprise Application Integration | Data Integration, Knowledge Publishing | ||
Altova | Modeling | |||
Amblit | Content Management | Modeling | ||
Ask | Information Access | Search | ||
AskMeNow | Information Access | Search, Data Integration | ||
Aspasia Systems | Knowledge Management | |||
Autonomy | Information Access | Search | Media, Retail, Telco, Public Sector, Automotive, Finance, Defense, Legal, IT, Energy, Health, Pharma | |
BBN Technologies | Information Access, Content Management, Document Management | Search, Document Tagging, Information Extraction, Inference and Reasoning | Defense | |
Biowisdom | Knowledge Management, Information Access | Information Extration, Knowledge Publishing | Health | |
Boeing | ||||
Cambridge Semantics | Productivity Tools | Data Integration, Modeling | ||
Celtx | Modeling | Media | ||
CheckMI | ||||
Cognition | Information Access | Search, Document Tagging, Information Extraction | Health, Legal | |
Collexis | Knowledge Management, Social Networks | Search, Data Integration, Information Extraction, Knowledge Publishing | Health, Defense, Legal | |
Connotate | Business Intelligence, Information Access | Search, Knowledge Publishing | Finance, Legal, Defense, Media | |
Content Analyst | Information Access, Knowledge Management, Document Management | Legal, Education, Media | ||
Contivo | Enterprise Application Integration,Business Process Mangement | Data Integration, SOA | ||
Convera | Information Access | Search, Information Extraction | Media | |
Cougaar Software, Inc. | Enterprise Application Integration | Data Integration | Defense | |
CyCorp | Security | Modeling, Reasoning | Finance | |
Digital Pebble | Information Access | Information Extraction, Document Classification | ||
Digital Reasoning | Information Extraction | Document Tagging | Defense | |
DowJones | Information Access, Knowledge management | Search, Modeling, Document Tagging, Knowledge Storage | Media, Financial, Energy, IT | |
EffectiveSoft | Knowledge Management | Document Tagging, Document Classification, Information Extraction | ||
EMC Corporation | ||||
Empolis | Information Access, Content Management | Search, Document Tagging, Information Extraction | Telco, Manufacturing, Media, Public Sector | |
Endeca | Security and Intelligence, Information Access | Search, Document Tagging, Information Extraction | Retail, Financial, Automotive, Defense | |
Exalead | Information Access | Search, Knowledge Visualization | Media, Public Sector, Finance, Health, IT | |
Expert System | Knowledge Management, Security and Intelligence, Information Access | Search, Document Tagging, Information Extraction, Document Classification | Automotive, Telco, Defense, Tourism, Media | |
Expressor | Enterprise Application Integration | Data Integration | ||
Fortent | Business Intelligence, Security and Intelligence, Knowledge Management | Data Integration, Search, Reasoning, | Finance | |
Franz | Information Access | Modeling, Knowledge Storage | ||
Full Capture Solutions | Financial | |||
Hakia | Information Access | Search | ||
Hewlett-Packard Company | ||||
IBM | Information Access | Search, Modeling, Semantic SOA, Knowledge Storage | ||
Image Matters | Knowledge Management, Information Access, Business Process Management, Enterprise Application Integration | |||
InfoSys | Information Access, Content Management | Search, Knowledge Publishing | ||
Intelius | Security and Intelligence | |||
Intellidimension | Knowledge Storage | |||
Intelligent Software Components | Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, Content Management | Search, Information Extraction, Modeling, Knowledge Publishing | Finance, Public Sector, Tourism, Energy | |
Intellisophic | ||||
invention-machine | Knowledge Management | Automotive, Energy, Health | ||
IQSer | Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management | |||
iSense | Content Management | Information Extraction | Advertising | |
JustSystems | Content Management, Enterprise Application Integration, Business Process Management | Defense, Financial, Public Sector | ||
Kirix | Productivity Tools | Data Integration | ||
Knowledge-Based Systems, Inc. | Knowledge Management | Information Extraction | Defense, Public Sector | |
Knowledge Foundations | Knowledge Management | Information Extraction | ||
Lingway | Information Access, Knowledge Management | Search, Document Tagging | Health, IT | |
LinkSpace | Information Access | Search | Defense | |
LucidMedia | Content Management | Document Tagging, Document Classification | Advertising | |
Mandriva | Information Access, | Data Integration, Search | IT | |
Metatomix | Information Access, Knowledge Management | Data Integration | Legal, Financial | |
Microsoft | ||||
Mondeca | Knowledge Management, Content Management, Information Access | Modeling, Search, Reasoning | Legal, Media, Defense | |
Motorola | Knowledge Publication | |||
Netbreeze | Information Access | Document Tagging, Information Extraction, Search | Pharma, Financial | |
Nokia | ||||
Norkom | Security | Financial | ||
Ontopia | Modeling, Knowledge Publishing | |||
Ontoprise | Knowledge Management, Information Access, Content Management | Modeling, Knowledge Storage, Inference and Reasoning, Information Extraction | Automotive, Telco | |
Ontos | Business Intelligence, Document Management, Enterprise Application Integration | Document Tagging, Information Extraction, Semantic SOA | Finance, Legal | |
OntoText | Information Access | Document Tagging, Modeling, Information Extraction, Language Understanding, Knowledge Storage | ||
Oracle | Enterprise Application Integration | Knowledge Storage, Data Integration | ||
Progress Software | Enterprise Application Integration | Data integration | Defense, Finance, IT, Telco, Health, Media, Public Sector | |
Radar Networks | Knowledge Management | Modeling, Data Integration | ||
Reinvent | Content Management | Modeling, Publishing | Tourism | |
Reuse Company | Knowledge Management, Intelligence, Customer Relation Management | Modeling, Data Integration, Information Extraction | Public Sector, Energy | |
RiverGlass Inc. | Knowledge Management, Intelligence | Search, Document Tagging, Information Extraction | Defense | |
Saltlux | Information Access | Search, Information Extraction, Document Tagging | Telco, Legal, Public Sector | |
Sandpiper Software | Modeling, Data Integration | |||
SAP | Enterprise Application Integration | Data Integration, Semantic SOA | ||
SchemaLogic | Information Access, Document Management | Search, Modeling | IT, Media, Defense | |
Semantech | Enterprise Application Integration | |||
Semantic Arts | Enterprise Application Integration | Semantic SOA | Public Sector, Health Care | |
Semantic Research | Intelligence, Knowledge Management | Knowledge Publishing, Modeling, Knowledge Storage | Education, Defense | |
Semantic System | Hardware | |||
Siderean Software Inc. | Content Management, Knowledge Management, Information Access | Data Integration, Modeling, Knowledge Publishing | ||
Siemens | Modeling, Data integration | Health, Energy | ||
SmartLogic | Information Access, Knowledge Management | Modeling, Document Classification, Knowledge Publishing | Public Sector, Media, Finance | |
Talis | Document Management | Academic | ||
TeraDact | ||||
Teradata | Enterprise Application Integration, Customer Relation Management | Data Integration | ||
Textwise | Information Access | Document Tagging, Information Extraction | ||
Thales | Intelligence and Security | Defense, Health, Public Sector | ||
Thetus | Knowledge Management, Information Access | Search, Data Integration, Modeling, Knowledge Publishing | Defense | |
Thomson Reuters | Intelligence, Information Access, | |||
TopQuadrant | Information Access | Modeling, Data Integration | Defense, Public Sector, Pharma, Automotive | |
TrueKnowledge | Information Access | Search | ||
WAND | Information Access | Modeling | eCommerce | |
Whatever | Knowledge Management, Social Networks | Search | ||
Ximetrix | Content Management | Search, Document Tagging, Knowledge Publishing | Public Sector | |
XSB | Information Access, Enterprise Application Integration, Business Intelligence | Data Integration, Information Extraction, Document Classification, Inference and Reasoning | ||
Yahoo! | Information Access | Search, Document Tagging, Data integration | ||
Zemanta | Productivity Tool | Content Tagging | Media | |
Zepheira | Education | |||
Zoominfo | Information Access | Data Integration, Search |
Annex 2: Company Listings by Sector, Technology, and Application Area
2.1 STE Companies by Sector
Companies are assigned one or multiple sectors according their offering and their customers. The following table shows the weight of some sectors of all selected companies, and then by address split into USA, EU, and others (Table 15.6 ).
2.2 STE Companies by High-Level Technology
For each company a technology has been assigned according to the services or solutions it offers. Each company may have assigned more than one technology or any technology at all (Table 15.7 ).
2.3 STE Companies by Area
Table 15.8
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Benjamins, V.R., Radoff, M., Davis, M., Greaves, M., Lockwood, R., Contreras, J. (2011). Semantic Technology Adoption: A Business Perspective. In: Domingue, J., Fensel, D., Hendler, J.A. (eds) Handbook of Semantic Web Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92913-0_15
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