Orbis Technologies

Orbis Technologies, Inc. is a medium sized American technology firm that provides advanced semantic text analytics.

History

The company was incorporated in 2005 by Brian Ippolito.

Products and services

The firm provides a semantic infrastructure that integrates multiple existing open source, commercial off-the-shelf, and government off-the-shelf entity extractors to produce an entity extraction result in standard industry data formats,^[1] which include eXtensible Markup Language (XML) and Resource Description Framework (RDF). Orbis is one of the first technology companies to apply semantic technology and cloud computing beyond the tactical intelligence domain^[2] to commercial sectors,^[3] and museum informatics.^[4]

The company develops custom-built cloud-based analytics, using MapReduce, to support entity extraction, relationship identification, and semantic search in a Hadoop cloud-processing environment,^[5] for a variety of purposes ranging from biomedical informatics^[6] to military DCGS programs.^[7] The cloud-based services involve transforming data to a format that can be processed by entity extractors, generate artifact metadata, and parse structured data elements; entity enhancement^[8] and disambiguation solutions^[9] resolve entity conflicts^[10] and enable accurate cross-document correlation.^[11]

Locations

The company holds its corporate office in Annapolis, Maryland, and additional offices in Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida, and Warner Robins, Georgia.

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