Bob, a field engineer, relies on an app provided by his company to query data for his job, but has limitations when more advanced tasks are required. He usually has to contact the IT department for help, but they may not respond instantly. Semantika is a platform that allows users to query data using natural language instead of SQL, minimizing the need to involve IT experts. It provides benefits like giving end users more control over data access and reducing bottlenecks caused by sole reliance on IT help.

1. Semantika Story
Query Service for Everyone!

2. Meet Bob
Bob is a field engineer. He works much
on querying data to support his
decisions at work.

3. *click*
*click*
Meet Bob
To help his job, the company provides
him with a special app that manages his
common query tasks.

4. Meet Bob
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And he is satisfied with it...

5. Meet Bob
...until things get nastier when the
job requires Bob working on more
advanced tasks.
He certainly has a definite limitation!

6. Meet Bob
*hello Jim*
The usual thing he always does is to
contact his IT colleague to tweak the
app with some extra queries...

7. Meet Bob
...
Although in many cases such request
may not get an instant attention...

8. Meet Bob
So now Bob is unable to complete his
task and the company is at risk of
losing money.

9. What could be the
better solution?

10. “Self-Service Data Query”

11. Meet Semantika
Semantika is a platform for building
Java application that addresses data
access and querying SQL database in
“plain way”

12. Meet Semantika
As plain as using the company’s
“own word” when asking the data

13. Meet Semantika
*omg*
So instead asking data like:
SELECT cEMP_name
FROM tEMP-XYZ_666
WHERE cDEPT_name =
‘Company Life Potion Mngnt’

14. Meet Semantika
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Query can be formulated like:
“Show all Employee names that work in the
Finance department.”

15. Meet Semantika
*click*
*click*
It gives benefits of minimizing IT knowhow in the company and giving endusers more control on data access need

16. Lessons Learned
Querying data can be a challenging task.
Sole reliance on IT experts can be a *major*
bottleneck that costs time and money.
Such reliance can be minimized by providing
direct data access and intuitive querying tool.
Semantika serves as a platform that can add
value to your existing query system without
reducing quality of service and performance.

17. Visit our Project
https:/
/github.com/obidea/semantika-api
Extras
Command-line Tool:
https:/
/github.com/obidea/semantika-cli
SPARQL endpoint with Sesame:
https:/
/github.com/obidea/semantika-sesame