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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
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
Enhancing Retail Performance with Semantic Layer As an Enabler for Data and Analytics Teams
In the fast-paced retail sector, organizations need to be able to quickly view store performance analytics in order to make crucial decisions. A leading global retail chain faced significant delays of up to 5-6 weeks when attempting to retrieve essential store performance metrics and create reports for executive leadership. This bottleneck was largely due to … Continue reading
A Semantic Layer to Enable Risk Management at a Multinational Bank
Enterprise Knowledge is working with a multinational bank to enable their risk-assessing processes by using semantics and connected data. Heavily regulated financial services firms require comprehensive and complex risk management. This requires employees to thoroughly account for risk and report it in detail to regulators. Continue reading
Consulting from Within: Best Practices for the Solo Taxonomist
On November 19th, 2024, Bonnie Griffin, Taxonomy Consultant, delivered a presentation titled “Consulting from Within: Best Practices for the Solo Taxonomist” at the 2024 edition of Taxonomy Boot Camp in Washington, DC. Griffin shared best practices to help solo taxonomists … 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
Presentation: Demystifying Knowledge Management through Storytelling
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend … Continue reading
Taxonomy and Information Architecture for the Semantic Layer
There is a growing interest in implementing a semantic layer as part of a knowledge management strategy as organizations seek to contextualize and connect their business data and information in meaningful ways. A semantic layer is more than a collection … Continue reading
Optimizing Historical Knowledge Retrieval: Standardizing Metadata for Enhanced Research Access
Enterprise Knowledge (EK) helps a federal research and development center standardize their descriptive metadata to support content findability. Continue reading
The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers
Heather Hedden, Senior Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, presented “The Role of Taxonomy and Ontology in Semantic Layers” at a webinar hosted by Progress Semaphore on April 16, 2024. Taxonomies at their core enable effective tagging and retrieval of content, and … Continue reading