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Enterprise AI Architecture Series: How to Inject Business Context into Structured Data using a Semantic Layer (Part 3)
Introduction AI has attracted significant attention in recent years, prompting me to explore enterprise AI architectures through a multi-part blog series this year. Part 1 of this series introduced the key technical components required for implementing an enterprise AI architecture. … 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
Leveraging Institutional Knowledge to Improve AI Success
In an age where organizations are seeking competitive advantages from new technologies, having high-quality knowledge readily available for use by both humans and AI solutions is an imperative. Organizations are making large investments in deploying AI. However, many are … Continue reading
Understanding the Role of Knowledge Intelligence in the CRISP-DM Framework: A Guide for Data Science Projects
In today’s rapidly advancing field of data science, where new technologies and methods continuously emerge, it’s essential to have a structured approach to navigate the complexities of data mining and analysis. The CRISP-DM framework–short for Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data … 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
AI & Taxonomy: the Good and the Bad
The recent popularity of new machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) applications has disrupted a great deal of traditional data and knowledge management understanding and tooling. At EK, we have worked with a number of clients who have questions–how … 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
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
The Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Simply defined, a knowledge graph is a network of entities, their attributes, and how they’re related to one another. While these networks can be captured and stored in a variety of formats, most implementations leverage a graph based tool or … Continue reading