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Entitlements Within a Semantic Layer Framework: Benefits of Determining User Roles Within a Data Governance Framework
The importance of data governance grows as the number of users with permission to access, create, or edit content and data within organizational ecosystems faces cumulative upkeep. An organization may have a plan for data governance and may have software … Continue reading
What is Semantics and Why Does it Matter?
This white paper will unpack what semantics is, and walk through the benefits of a semantic approach to your organization’s data across search, usability, and standardization. As a knowledge and information management consultancy, EK works closely with clients to help … Continue reading
Tesfaye and Majumder Speaking at EDW 2025
Enterprise Knowledge’s Lulit Tesfaye, Partner and Vice President of Knowledge and Data Services, and Urmi Majumder, Principal Data Architect, will deliver an in-depth tutorial on semantic layer architectures at the DGIQ West + EDW 2025 conference on May 5th. The … Continue reading
How a Semantic Layer Transforms Engineering Research Industry Challenges
To drive future innovation, research organizations increasingly seek to develop advanced platforms that enhance the findability and connectivity of their knowledge, data, and content–empowering more efficient and impactful R&D efforts. However, many face challenges due to decentralized information systems, where … Continue reading
Extracting Knowledge from Documents: Enabling Semantic Search for Pharmaceutical Research and Development
The Challenge A major pharmaceutical research and development company faced difficulty creating regulatory reports and files based on years of drug experimentation data. Their regulatory intelligence teams and drug development chemists spent dozens of hours searching through hundreds of thousands … Continue reading
The Minimum Requirements To Consider Something a Semantic Layer
Semantic Layers are an important design framework for connecting information across an organization in preparation for Enterprise AI and Knowledge Intelligence. But with every new technology and framework, interest in utilizing the technological advance outpaces experience in effective implementation. As … Continue reading
Enterprise AI Architecture Series: How to Extract Knowledge from Unstructured Content (Part 2)
Our CEO, Zach Wahl, recently noted in his annual KM trends blog for 2025 that Knowledge Management (KM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are really two sides of the same coin, detailing this idea further in his seminal blog introducing the … Continue reading
Why Your Organization Needs Unified Entitlements
Successful semantic solutions and knowledge management initiatives help the right people see the right information at the right time. When properly implemented, knowledge workers have the knowledge they need to make the best decisions for their organization. The good news … Continue reading
Metadata Within the Semantic Layer
As a standardized framework for connecting organizational assets, a Semantic Layer captures organizational knowledge and domain meaning to support connecting and coordinating assets across systems and repositories. Metadata, as one component of a Semantic Layer approach, is foundational. Whether you … Continue reading
Enterprise AI Architecture Series: How to Build a Knowledge Intelligence Architecture (Part 1)
Since the launch of ChatGPT over two years ago, we have observed that our clients are increasingly drawn to the promise of AI. They also recognize that the large language models (LLMs), trained on public data sets, may not effectively … Continue reading