Business information systems (IS) have developed incrementally. Each new operating need has generated an ad hoc application: ERP, CRM, EDM, directories, messaging, extranet and so on. IS development has been driven by applications and processes. Each new application has created another data silo, with the result that companies today are faced with a new challenge: how to manage and extract value from this disparate, isolated data. Meanwhile, the economic climate, globalization and the Internet are bringing enormous pressure to bear on companies, as they cope with more intense competition. In order to succeed, they need to streamline their organization and unleash the creativity of their workforce. Access to relevant information has major implications for both decision-making and implementing strategy. How can you make more effective use of your data? Companies looking to deliver a solution without delay need an agile information system, one that gives employees easier access to the information they truly need to do their jobs. The new applications required within each functional realm must be developed from existing data, without creating a new warehouse or adding complexity. The critical question facing companies today is this: “Using the data that already exists in your applications, how much time will it take to create new information that meets the needs of each operational division, and how much will it cost?” Some answers have emerged, but they provide only a partial solution The solution: create a unified information space We need to think about access to information within a unified space that receives data from every source in the company. Think of silos as subsections of a single data space fed by every application--a space from which it’s possible to create new services. But how can we create this unified space? By what process and using what technology? The evolution of the Internet has brought us the Semantic Web and Linked Data Linked Enterprise Data (LED) is the application of the Linked Data to the corporate IS. Its strategy and technology represent a comprehensive response to the challenge of creating an agile, high-performance information system: internal data sources are linked together and eventually consolidated with external data. Linked Enterprise Data introduces a change in perspective. Far more than simply aligning silos, it breaks down walls and interconnects the data itself at the most detailed level. LED creates a coherent, dense and unified informational space that draws on all of the company’s documents and data. Linked Enterprise Data: a pragmatic approach, an agile process An immense benefit: your data is finally free! Linked Enterprise Data returns data management to the IS Department and offers greater autonomy to the business units and the users: data usage is no longer dictated by applications. LED lets you consolidate all your accessible information and opens up a who
www.antidot.net Business information systems (IS) have developed incrementally. Each new operating need has generated an ad hoc application: ERP, CRM, EDM, directories, messaging, extranet and so on. IS development has been driven by applications and processes. Each new application has created another data silo, with the result that companies today are faced with a new challenge: how to manage and extract value from this disparate, isolated data. Meanwhile, the economic climate, globalization and the Internet are bringing enormous pressure to bear on companies, as they cope with more intense competition. In order to succeed, they need to streamline their organization and unleash the creativity of their workforce. Access to relevant information has major implications for both decision-making and implementing strategy. CRM CRM ERP ERP E-mail E-mail Files Files ECM ECM CRM CRM ERP ERP ECM ECM E-mail E-mail Files Files Companies looking to deliver a solution without delay need an agile information system, one that gives employees easier access to the information they truly need to do their jobs. The new applications required within each functional realm must be developed from existing data, without creating a new warehouse or adding complexity. The critical question facing companies today is this: “Using the data that already exists in your applications, how much time will it take to create new information that meets the needs of each operational division, and how much will it cost?” How can you make more efective use of your data? Various solutions have appeared over the past twenty years that attempt to tackle the problems raised by data proliferation. Business Intelligence addressed the task of capturing and mining quantitative data. Master Data Management seeks to resolve the problem of duplicate and divergent data among silos. Unlike a centralized approach to data reconciliation, the SOA strategy of information system urbanization proposes peer-to-peer data exchange among applications. Search engines provide a strictly documentary view of IS content, generating long lists of documents bereft of any functional context. And big data simply offers a technology stack for handling petabytes when the “relational data-centric” model will no longer suffice, without offering a functional solution. These various tools undoubtedly provide operating benefits, but in most cases they entail a long and costly deployment process and make the system more complex. And none of them offers a genuine solution to the challenges of a scalable IS: pooling data to create information that will provide an operational service; integrating and distributing data between applications, both internally and externally with its ecosystem; providing an information infrastructure that emphasizes agility and ease of use. Therefore, we need to look beyond the issue of technology and change the paradigm by placing the data at the heart of our approach. Some answers have emerged, but they provide only a partial solution The solution: create a unified information space We need to think about access to information within a unified space that receives data from every source in the company. Think of silos as subsections of a single data space fed by every application--a space from which it’s possible to create new services. But how can we create this unified space? By what process and using what technology? Linked Enterprise Data Data at the heart of the company Through 2015, organizations integrating high value, diverse, new information types and sources into a coherent information management infrastructure will outperform their industry peers financially by more than 20%. Gartner – september 2011 » «
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Business information systems (IS) have developed incrementally. Each new operating need has generated an ad hoc application: ERP, CRM, EDM, directories, messaging, extranet and so on. IS development has been driven by applications and processes.
Each new application has created another data silo, with the result that companies today are faced with a new challenge: how to manage and extract value from this disparate, isolated data.
Meanwhile, the economic climate, globalization and the Internet are bringing enormous pressure to bear on companies, as they cope with more intense competition. In order to succeed, they need to streamline their organization and unleash the creativity of their workforce.
Access to relevant information has major implications for both decision-making and implementing strategy.
CRMCRM ERPERP
E-mailE-mail FilesFilesECMECM
CRMCRMERPERP
ECMECM
E-mailE-mail Files
Files
Companies looking to deliver a solution without delay need an agile information system, one that gives employees easier access to the information they truly need to do their jobs. The new applications required within each functional realm must be developed from existing data, without creating a new warehouse or adding complexity.
The critical question facing companies today is this: “Using the data that already exists in your applications, how much time will it take to create new information that meets the needs of each operational division, and how much will it cost?”
How can you make more ef ective use of your data?
Various solutions have appeared over the past twenty years that attempt to tackle the problems raised by data proliferation. Business Intelligence addressed the task of capturing and mining quantitative data. Master Data Management seeks to resolve the problem of duplicate and divergent data among silos. Unlike a centralized approach to data reconciliation, the SOA strategy of information system urbanization proposes peer-to-peer data exchange among applications. Search engines provide a strictly documentary view of IS content, generating long lists of documents bereft of any functional context. And big data simply offers a technology stack for handling petabytes when the “relational data-centric” model will no longer suffice, without offering a functional solution.
These various tools undoubtedly provide operating benefits, but in most cases they entail a long and costly deployment process and make the system more complex. And none of them offers a genuine solution to the challenges of a scalable IS:
� pooling data to create information that will provide an operational service;
� integrating and distributing data between applications, both internally and externally with its ecosystem;
� providing an information infrastructure that emphasizes agility and ease of use.
Therefore, we need to look beyond the issue of technology and change the paradigm by placing the data at the heart of our approach.
Some answers have emerged, but they provide only a partial solution
The solution: create a unified information spaceWe need to think about access to information within a unified space that receives data from every source in the company. Think of silos as subsections of a single data space fed by every application--a space from which it’s possible to create new services.
But how can we create this unified space? By what process and using what technology?
Linked Enterprise Data Data at the heart of the company
Through 2015, organizations integrating high value, diverse, new information types and sources into a coherent information management infrastructure will outperform their industry peers financially by more than 20%.
Linked Enterprise Data combines the benefits of BI, MDM, SOA and search engines to:
� Create links among existing data, with each link representing another new piece of information that responds to user needs.
� Break down data walls by offering an information hub that allows each application to draw on data from throughout the IS.
� Provide an open, standardized, secure, long-term, high-performance technological environment defined by the W3C using the XML, RDF, SPARQL and OWL standards.
� Reduce complexity through a unified methodology for inter-application data exchange, regardless of whether the data is company-internal or external.
Linked Enterprise Data
returns data management to the IS Department and offers greater autonomy for both business units and users: data usage is no longer dictated by applications. LED lets you consolidate all your accessible information and opens up a whole range of possibilities!
Originally designed to serve as a universal document publication system, the Web has radically evolved over the past 15 years. With the advent of Web 2.0 and social networks, it has been transformed into an interactive ecosystem in which the user has come to assume an active role. Its impact has also been felt in the technological realm, since companies have had to adapt their information systems to the principles and technology behind the Web: a single tool, the browser, and a single language for presenting data, HTML.
Still, the Web’s content can only be mined by humans. Computers are not able to understand this information and use it to resolve complex problems. Web 3.0, also known as the Semantic Web, is the latest iteration of the Web, in which computers can process and exchange information automatically and unambiguously. The goal of the Semantic Web is to go well beyond simple access to raw data by providing a way of interweaving this data. This process, known as Linked Data, creates a decentralized knowledge base at Web scale, in which the value of each piece of information is enhanced by its links to complementary data.
The evolution of the Internet has brought us the Semantic Web and Linked Data
Scalable and flexible by nature, Linked Enterprise Data can be used to create the operational information needed in each functional unit, without modifying existing applications or disrupting the IS. Thus, LED isn’t a cathedral whose construction requires a company to rethink its organization, revamp its information system or anticipate every possible application or scenario from the outset.
On the contrary: a Linked Enterprise Data strategy can begin with a small-scale project that will offer a quick response to a targeted functional need as well as a demonstrable return on investment. The project proceeds in pragmatic fashion, with an analysis of the available data and ideal use scenarios. Each new project and need will gradually enlarge the informational graph, without undermining the initial results, to yield enhanced value and generate new applications—so the virtuous circle behind Linked Enterprise Data is closed.
Linked Enterprise Data: a pragmatic approach, an agile process
Linked Enterprise Data (LED) is the application of the Linked Data to the corporate IS. Its strategy and technology represent a comprehensive response to the challenge of creating an agile, high-performance information system: internal data sources are linked together and eventually consolidated with external data.
Linked Enterprise Data introduces a change in perspective. Far more than simply aligning silos, it breaks down walls and interconnects the data itself at the most detailed level. LED creates a coherent, dense and unified informational space that draws on all of the company’s documents and data.
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