When we need to write a report or ask a question that involves data in different spreadsheets, databases and the web we frequently waste time cutting and pasting to get the answer. The Semantic Web is a major initiative that has solved this problem completely.
SDS is a Desktop Product that uses the Semantic Web to solve data integration problems.
Business people now get answers from data directly without programming costs and delays:
- A Program Director has multiple Microsoft Project plans and Excel Spreadsheets in different formats and locations- she needs a clear unified picture of what is going on - Project Support Office wastes days cutting and pasting and there is a worry about underlying data quality.
- A Scientist has Gene data in Oracle, Compound data in a Web Application and multiple Affymetrix spreadsheets. He compares the data by cutting and pasting but with so many records the work can never be thoroughly completed so opportunities are missed.
- The US Environmental Protection Agency publishes hundreds of spreadsheets containing data on Air, Water Quality and Health. Analysts want to research any link between toxic gas emission in one area to trends in poor health in another, but with hundreds of questions that require programming the job is never completed.
This SDS Video is a quick tour of how SDS solves these problems and a quickstart guide for you after downloading SDS
These Live SDS Examples connect to models on our demonstration servers to provide more ideas - such as Semantic Query of Medical Images
Why SDS?
Business - Complex questions of distributed data answered graphically.
Technical - Oracle, Excel and Web Services as a virtual RDF store - data left in situ - query with SPARQL and OWL model
SDS provides Semantic Web power to solve your desktop data integration problems
