Smartlogic’s Semaphore Cloud is a set of on-demand services that provide the Semaphore platform to a broad range of customers regardless of size, type or location, who need access to a sophisticated semantic platform to manage mission critical tasks.
Learn about Smartlogic’s latest product SaaS offering - Semaphore Cloud. Learn about key features and benefits and hear how organizations are leveraging semantics to drive change, reduce costs and improve business results.
Bring the power of semantics to your business with Semaphore Cloud
1. Bring the power of semantics to your business
with Semaphore Cloud
Thursday, April 20th 10 am – 11 am central
2. Who’s speaking today?
Anne Lapkin
VP Global Strategy
Smartlogic
Stephen Rice
Senior Technical Consultant
Smartlogic
3. • Smartlogic products and services
• Where it fits in the enterprise?
• Why is Semaphore best in class?
• What is Semaphore Cloud?
• Semaphore Cloud capabilities
• Solving real world problems
• Semaphore case studies
• Semaphore Cloud demo
• Practical considerations
• Summary
• Q & A
Agenda
4. Smartlogic products and services
We keep pace with our customers’ changing needs and market demands while
maintaining an unwavering commitment to quality
Product Development
& Maintenance
Semaphore Suite:
• Usability/workflow features
• New integrations
• Advances from R&D
Maintenance
• 24x7 software incident
customer support
• Software patch access
• Software upgrade access
• Documentation
Professional Services
Our professional services team
works with customers to
accelerate deployments, avoid
mistakes and maximize their
return on investment with
Semaphore.
Specialist knowledge in:
• Information science
• Ontology management
• Classification
• Triple/graph store
• Integration
• Content management
• Enterprise Search
• Semantically-powered user
experience
Training
Online, self-paced training, short
videos, student exercises and
instructor interaction covering:
• Model creation and
management
• Rule management
• Auto-classification
• Testing and mitigation
strategies
• Systems Administration &
Integration
Partners
We partner with:
• Industry leading technology
organizations
• System implementation
specialists
• Expert industry consultants
To deliver enterprise-grade
solutions to organizations around
the world.
5. Where Semaphore fits
Portals
(e.g. Self service)
Business Applications
(e.g. compliance)
Analytics
(graph)
Search Mobile
(e.g. Targeted content)Content Production
Model
Management
Classification
Extraction
Text Mining
NLP
Semantic
Enhancement
Applications ERPContent Linked DataSocial MediaExternal Systems
6. Why is Semaphore best in class?
• Easy to use
– SMEs directly participate in projects
• Flexible
– Model-driven rule generation
– Leverage linked vocabularies
• Precise and auditable
– Rule based classification supported
by NLP and other semantic methods
– Full suite of analysis tools to track
and audit results
• Full editorial control
• Scalable
• Integrates with existing investments
Ease of
use
Precision and
accuracy
Enterprise grade
Cost effective
New data
opportunities
Regulatory
Business user IT manager
Chief Data
Officer
Management
7. What is Semaphore Cloud?
Semaphore Cloud – a single semantic platform for all environments
Semaphore Cloud is Smartlogic’s Cloud solution for clients who do not want to manage
their environment on-premises
Development
Non-production
Business
Entry level production
Enterprise
Fully scalable and
transferable
8. Semaphore has modular capabilities that scale to meet your needs
• Manage your
model
• Enrich your
information
assets with
metadata
• Extract critical
facts, entities and
relationships
• Enterprise
collaboration
• Linked models
• Integrate with
downstream
systems
• Build a semantic
user experience
Whether you’re looking for a Cloud, On-premises or Hybrid solution, Semaphore
capabilities scale to meet your needs
9. Semaphore solves real business problems
Improve operational effectiveness
Create new revenue streams
Reduce the compliance burden
Mitigate risk
Increase customer intimacy
10. An independent organization that researches
consumer products is leveraging Semaphore
to improve discoverability for their
subscribers
A large grocery cooperative is using
Semaphore to disseminate product
information to all of its retailers
A national multi-channel retailer of outdoor
products is using Semaphore to enable
contextual marketing to their customers and
improve website search and navigation
A global manufacturer of packaging materials
is leveraging Semaphore to mine patent filings
for potential infringement and identify
partnership opportunities
Semaphore case studies
12. Practical considerations
• Why worry about software upgrades?
– Automated release management with rigorous testing
• Why worry about business continuity?
– Model information is stored in a redundant database cluster
– Automated frequent backups
– 24x7x365 customer support
– 99.5% guaranteed uptime
• Why worry about security?
– Clients are isolated using logical partitioning and containers
– Clients control users and their roles
– Industry standard authentication mechanisms are supported
• Why worry about growth?
– Flexible and easy upgrade path as usage, environment and service demands change
13. Summary
• Semantic technologies are being used by the world’s
largest organizations to solve unresolved problems
• Cloud deployment lets you focus on your business
problem while Smartlogic manages the infrastructure
and administration
• Semaphore Cloud makes our award-winning semantic
platform available to organizations of all sizes
A powerful semantic platform delivered to your enterprise in the cloud
An easy and cost effective way to leverage advanced capabilities that global organizations are using to manage compliance, improve customer service, enhance predictive analytics and drive business results
A set of on-demand services that provide semantic capabilities to a broad range of customers regardless of size, type or location
An enterprise-grade collection of capabilities that scales as your requirements evolve