Linked Data technologies data enrichment opportunities are limitless. Having all that unified, standardized and interlinked data augments your business records, letting you access them through various perspectives and turn the interconnected information into actionable insights to serve your organization’s objectives. Also read: Data Integration: Joining the Data Pieces of Your Business Puzzle on the Ontotext blog http://buff.ly/29iUqTn

1. Linked Data for Lean Enterprise
Data Management

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In an environment
of ubiquitously
communicating
devices, systems and
people businesses
have plenty of
opportunities to
access and benefit
from enormous
amounts of data.

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What they lack is the effective means
of integrating, interconnecting and
ultimately making sense of these data.

4. A major challenge for enterprise knowledge management is the difficulty
to consolidate data from disparate information sources.
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5. Having built various systems to
address challenges ad hoc,
organizations often end up
with vendor-specific
solutions that generate
useless, siloed heaps
of data.
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These data, scattered across
departments, in unrelated
data sets, are increasingly
hard to manage and nearly
impossible to extract useful
information from.

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Data
are walled off,
and so is
organizational
knowledge.

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One way to awaken the dormant potential of this locked knowledge
is to combine all the heterogeneous data into a single coherent
source and use them for smarter, data-driven decision making.

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Enter Linked Data.

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Linked Data technologies
allow business information,
expressed and recorded in
heterogeneous data formats,
to be translated into a
common format and thus
made ready for cost-effective
management and
seamless integration.

11. The integration is addressed by
creating a metalayer of uniform
data representation through
which the data sets from the
systems are joined and a single
entry point to access, use and
reuse data of different formats,
schemas, storages is created.
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Without the need to replace existing systems, business data
(from both internal and external data sources) is consolidated.

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Sounds too complex and techy?

14. Imagine a jigsaw puzzle
you have been tasked
to assemble.
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The tricky thing about this puzzle is that it contains tiles from various
vendors. The picture to be completed is the same, yet puzzle pieces
hardly interlock as their formats are different, each with specific size
and structure, fitting only their corresponding tiles.

15. Assembling the whole picture without gaps and distortion seems impossible,
doesn’t it? But what if the picture is completed on an abstract level?
The way this can be done is by representing each piece with a virtual
standard format piece which further gets a virtual match.
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Similarly (technicalities aside) Linked Data approach is about
representing various chunks of information in a standard data format.

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Once standardized,
enterprise data is then
turned into smart data
pieces which fit together
in any combination and
connect with numerous
other data pieces
seamlessly.

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Something more,
a common framework to
facilitate the sharing and
reuse of enterprise data
internally (across
business units)
and externally
(with 3rd parties)
is built.
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This framework of
interconnected data
pieces allows for a
360-degree view of the
entire business and a
holistic approach
to recognizing opportunities
or spotting bottlenecks
in the organization’s
processes.
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This is how Linked Data presents enterprises with
multiple perspectives on what they “know” and
that is why mapping organizational information
through a standard data format is so exciting and
holds so much potential.
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For in a data-driven environment, lean information management and robust
business intelligence can be done wisely by integrating, interpreting and
ultimately making sense of data.
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