TopQuadrant Announces First Semantic Web Enterprise Vocabulary Management Solution

SAN JOSE, CA, Jun 16 (MARKET WIRE) --
SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE 2009 -- TopQuadrant(TM), the global leader
in Semantic Web application development technology, today announced
TopBraid(TM) Enterprise Vocabulary Management Solution (EVMS) to help
organizations connect data vocabulary assets in a modular fashion.
TopBraid EVMS leverages W3C Semantic Web standards such as RDF, SPARQL
and SKOS to construct a dynamic web of terminology, ultimately improving
data quality and cohesiveness, resulting in better utilization of all
information assets.

Most enterprises aim for a single, centralized master vocabulary system to
create intuitive and understandable connections between data. But the
reality is that enterprise vocabularies are managed in a disconnected,
distributed manner -- typically within spreadsheets and on individual user
desktops. Even when enterprise systems include vocabulary capabilities,
the result is a host of disconnected vocabularies -- which subverts the
value of a controlled vocabulary.

By leveraging Semantic Web technology, TopBraid EVMS applies the
modularity and extensibility of the Web to vocabulary management. Instead
of requiring everyone within an enterprise ecosystem to standardize on
all the terms, TopBraid EVMS uses web-standard Uniform Resource
Identifiers (URIs) to uniquely identify each concept. Each URI may be
mapped to various terms used by the different groups of people to
describe the same concept. This modular approach enables a sustainable,
shared and distributed vocabulary management web.

"Information is becoming a product for many organizations," said Irene
Polikoff, co-founder and CEO of TopQuadrant. "Vocabularies are used to
communicate and integrate data across the supply chain and standardize the
publication of company information to external partners and customers. But
if companies cannot effectively manage reference terms across the
organization, information navigation becomes disjointed and results in
poor information quality and faulty communication. This directly impacts
productivity, quality of customer service, competitiveness and,
ultimately, revenues."

TopBraid EVMS offers simplified development and management of controlled
vocabularies. Content owners create relationships between terminology
elements that are recorded as hyperlinks on the World Wide Web.
Connections that previously had to be accomplished with custom software
are easily described in a standard, declarative format. TopBraid EVMS
provides flexible, customizable approaches for managing taxonomies and
business vocabularies to support data integration, search, navigation,
content delivery and data analysis.

The following capabilities are available out-of-the-box with TopBraid
EVMS:

Vocabulary Processing: Standard hierarchical, associative and equivalency
relationships; repositioning and numbering of terms; crosswalk mapping and
graph capabilities.

Automatic Processing: Ability to create validation rules and automated
script processing via SPIN and SPARQLMotion.

Import/Export: Import/Export from RDBMS, RDF Store, SPARQL endpoints,
spreadsheets (CSV), XML, RDF, SKOS and OWL.

Merging: RDF standard universal identifiers provide easy "hooks" for
merging vocabularies.

Systems Integration: Integrate with existing enterprise or vocabulary
management systems via web services or APIs.

TopBraid EVMS customers receive specialized models for taxonomy
development, governance and version control. The solution also includes
SPIN Rules and SPARQLMotion scripts for key vocabulary management
functionality, such as approval workflows and commonly used editing
activities. TopBraidLive server and TopBraid Ensemble licenses are
included in the solution along with TopBraid Ensemble web application
templates that are optimized for vocabulary development.

About TopBraid Suite

TopBraid Suite(TM) supports the complete semantic application development
lifecycle. Users can rapidly assemble, deploy and manage dynamic
ontology-driven applications built with the W3C SemanticWeb standards,
including RDF/S, OWL and SPARQL. The suite includes TopBraid Composer, a
Semantic Web modeling and application development environment; TopBraid
Composer Maestro Edition(TM), an extended version of Composer with
additional capabilities such as SPARQLMotion for editing and executing
visual data processing scripts and SPIN for modeling relationships among
data (e.g., business rules, data quality constraints); TopBraid Live(TM),
an enterprise Semantic Web application platform; and TopBraid
Ensemble(TM), a Semantic Web application assembly toolkit.

About TopQuadrant

TopQuadrant is the global leader in Semantic Web application development
technology, solution services and training programs. Established in 2001
with the mission to enable enterprises to be agile through practical
application of Semantic Web technologies, TopQuadrant offers TopBraid
Suite, the only Semantic Web platform with a graphical application
assembly toolkit and end-user customizable tools to discover, explore and
visualize relevant data without programming. TopQuadrant's Semantic Web
applications enable enterprises to master the challenges of the global
marketplace by becoming more agile, reducing costs and creating
competitive business processes that easily adapt to change. The company's
customers include Fortune 1000 corporations in retail, pharmaceutical,
financial services, medical/healthcare, manufacturing, and energy
industries as well as government agencies in the areas of defense,
intelligence and airspace. For more information, visit
www.topquadrant.com.

TopQuadrant, TopBraid, TopBraid Suite, TopBraid Ensemble, TopBraid Live,
TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Composer Maestro Edition, SPARQLMotion, the
TopQuadrant logo, and "Composing the Semantic Web" are trademarks of
TopQuadrant Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective
owners.

For More Information, Contact:
Irene Polikoff
Co-founder & CEO
TopQuadrant
Email Contact
703.299.9330

Media Contact:
Barbara Reichert
Reichert Communications, LLC
Email Contact
415-248-0230 ext. 7012

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