Semantic Search Advisory and Implementation for an Online Healthcare Information Provider
The medical field is an extremely complex space, with thousands of concepts that are referred to by vastly different terms. These terms can vary across regions, languages, areas of practice, and even from clinician to clinician. Additionally, patients often communicate … Continue reading
Top Semantic Layer Use Cases and Applications (with Real World Case Studies)
Today, most enterprises are managing multiple content and data systems or repositories, often with overlapping capabilities such as content authoring, document management, or data management (typically averaging three or more). This leads to fragmentation and data silos, creating significant inefficiencies. … Continue reading
Women’s Health Foundation – Semantic Classification POC
A humanitarian foundation focusing on women’s health faced a complex problem: determining the highest impact decision points in contraception adoption for specific markets and demographics. Two strategic objectives drove the initiative—first, understanding the multifaceted factors (from product attributes to social influences) that guide women’s contraceptive choices, and second, identifying actionable insights from disparate data sources. The key challenge was integrating internal survey response data with internal investment documents to answer nuanced competency questions such as, “What are the most frequently cited factors when considering a contraceptive method?” and “Which factors most strongly influence adoption or rejection?” This required a system that could not only ingest and organize heterogeneous data but also enable executives to visualize and act upon insights derived from complex cross-document analyses. Continue reading
Humanitarian Foundation – SemanticRAG POC
A humanitarian foundation needed to demonstrate the ability of its Graph Retrieval Augmented Generation (GRAG) system to answer complex, cross-source questions. In particular, the task was to evaluate the impact of foundation investments on strategic goals by synthesizing information from publicly available domain data, internal investment documents, and internal investment data. The challenge laid in …. 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
Aligning an Enterprise-Wide Information Management (IM) Roadmap for a Global Energy Company
A global energy company sought support in detailing and aligning their information management (IM) team’s roadmaps for all four of their IM products – covering all managed applications, services, projects, and capabilities – to help them reach their target state vision of higher levels of productivity, more informed decision-making, and quality information made available to … Continue reading
Galdamez and Cross to Speak at the APQC 2025 Process & Knowledge Management Conference
Guillermo Galdamez, Principal Knowledge Management Consultant, and Benjamin Cross, Project Manager, will be presenting “Knowledge Portals: Manifesting A Single View Of Truth For Your Organization” at the APQC 2025 Process & Knowledge Management Conference on April 10th. In this presentation, … Continue reading
Why Graph Implementations Fail (Early Signs & Successes)
Organizations continue to invest heavily in efforts to unify institutional knowledge and data from multiple sources. This typically involves copying data between systems or consolidating it into a new physical location such as data lakes, warehouses, and data marts. With … Continue reading
Semantic Maturity Spectrum: Search with Context
EK’s Urmi Majumder and Madeleine Powell jointly delivered the presentation ‘Semantic Maturity Spectrum: Search with Context’ at the MarkLogic World Conference on September 24, 2024. Semantic search has long proven to be a powerful tool in creating intelligent search experiences. … Continue reading
How Semantic Layers Support Product Search and Discovery
Taxonomies have been in use for a long time on e-commerce websites. They help users find the products they want to buy by means of organized categories and subcategories of product types, and the feature of filtering by product attributes. … Continue reading