Ontoprise GmbH
ontoprise GmbH
| Founder(s) |
Jürgen Angele, Stefan Decker, Hans-Peter Schnurr, Steffen Staab, Rudi Studer |
| Headquarters |
Karlsruhe, Germany |
| Employees |
48 (2009) |
| Website |
ontoprise.com |
The ontoprise GmbH is a provider of Semantic Web infrastructure technologies and products used to support dynamic semantic information integration and information management processes at the enterprise level. Its primary place of business is located at Karlsruhe, Germany.
History
The company was founded in 1999 by Prof. Dr. Juergen Angele, Prof. Dr. Stefan Decker, Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer, Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab, and Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Hans-Peter Schnurr as a spin-off from Karlsruhe University (Germany) to commercialize newly developed technologies on ontology reasoning.
Current product portfolio
- OntoStudio (formerly OntoEdit): modeling environment to create and maintain ontologies.
- OntoBroker: fast Semantic Web-Middleware for inferencing and managing ontologies. It supports the W3C Semantic Web recommendations: OWL, RDF, RDFS, SPARQL, RIF, and ObjectLogic (the successor of F-logic).
- SemanticMiner: ontology based company search.
- SemanticMiner for SharePoint: Microsoft SharePoint Server ontology search extension
- SemanticGuide: expert system for field service
- SMW+: semantic enterprise wiki for professional users
Research
References
Further reading
- Use Case: How Ontologies and Rules Help to Advance Automobile Development "W3C Semantic Web Use Cases and Case Studies". June 2008.
- On The Cusp: A Global Review of the Semantic Web Industry. A Global Review of the Industry and Leading Vendors. David Provost. September 2008.
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