Semantic Technologies
Definitions
- "service" versus "process"
- “Services are the capabilities delivered by
the technology infrastructure, and processes are what happens in the business
infrastructure.”
(from looselycoupled.com)
- Business Activity Monitoring
- ...relates to the analysis and presentation of relevant and timely information
gathered from multiple sources within the organization.
(from WfMC.org
PDF file, p.8).
- Workflow
- The automation of a business process, in whole or part, during which documents,
information or tasks are passed from one participant (human or machine) to
another for action, according to a set of procedural rules.
(from e-workflow.org, slightly altered)
- Ontology
- a hierarchy of concepts organized by the 'subclass' relation, plus other
'semantic relations' that specify how one concept is related to another.
(paraphrased from a more detailed description from
Wikipedia)
Ontologies
- PowerLoom
- Ontology building tool plus inferencing engine. Long-term research project at
USC Information Sciences Institute.
- Protege
- Ontology Editor from the Stanford Medical Informatics group.
- OWL
- The ontology language of choice for the Semantic Web.
- Ontolingua
- Ontology language from Stanford Knowledge Systems Lab.
- KSL Ontology Editor
- Ontology editor from Stanford Knowledge Systems Lab.
- KIF: Knowledge Interchange
Format
- Ontology language intended to facilitate translation from one ontology language
to another.
- Cyc
- An attempt by Cycorp, Inc. to build a large
ontology encompassing common human knowledge.
BPM - Business Process Management
- ebPML.org
- Site covering BPM systems and languages.
- Process Markup Languages
- Good summary of Business Process languages.
- Stefan
Haberl - Business Process Description Languages
- Overview of languages
- BPEL4WS – Business Process Execution Language for Web Services
- A leading candidate to become the standard BPM language for Web Services.
- Loosely Coupled
- Site covering Business Process Automation and Web Services. Good weblog
(here).
- Business Process Standards for Web Services
- Article on competing standards for Web Services language (though somewhat
out-of-date). Nice description of some basic concepts.
- Business Process Trends
- Site covering Business Process issues — articles, newsletters, white
papers, etc.
- Hyping BPM
- Article on dangers of current over-hyping of BPM, analogy to past over-hyping
of AI.
- IBM BPEL support
- Article on IBM support of BPEL.
- the Insider's Guide to Business Integration - ebizQ
- Site covering Business Integration.
- PegaSystems, Inc.
- Company selling products and services for addressing BPM with Business Rules.
- Java Business Process Management
- jBpm is an open source BPM tool implemented in Java.
Workflow
- Workflow Reference Model
- From WfMC, Workflow Management Coalition, a non-profit organization of workflow
vendors, users, analysts, and research groups. Also, numerous docs.
- Securities Settlement Case Study
- Description of Workflow Automation project at Swiss Bank Corp.
- Oak Grove Systems, Inc.
- Produces workflow engine product called "Reactor"
- Versata, Inc.
- Java-based workflow automation software. Seem to straddle a number of categories.
- Workflow Example
- File written in XPDL
Data Integration
- Data integration companies to watch for 2004
- From Intelligent Enterprise — list of companies to watch in the Data
Integration space.
- Informatica, Inc.
- A leading producer of data integration tools.
- Ascential, Inc.
- Producer of software and solutions for enterise data integration.
- SeeBeyond, Inc.
- Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions.
- Siperian, Inc.
- Data Integration solution for enterprises.
- MetaMatrix, Inc.
- Enterprise Information Integration and Metadata Management tools.
Business Rules
- ILOG, Inc.
- Business Rules engine software products
- RulesPower, Inc.
- Rules-driven BPM software.
- Corticon, Inc.
- Rules Engine for decision managament, BPM.
- FairIsaac, Inc.
- Produces the "Blaze" business rules engine.
- KPI - Knowledge Partners, Inc.
- Business Rules consulting firm.
Report Languages
- XBRL – eXtensible Business Reporting Language
- XML-based open standard language for describing contents of financial business
reports.
Last modified: Thu Jun 10 11:57:32 PDT 2004