This document provides an overview of business ontology and how it can be used to integrate knowledge for applications. It discusses how business ontology can be used as an approach to model business entities, their properties and relationships to better organize information across different systems. The document is part of a set of presentations on business ontology that cover an overview, how to create a business ontology using a case study, and examples of semantic technology and reference cases.
Brain will not get bigger – amount of information will
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_interoperabilityPutting semantic interoperability into contextUseful framework for discussing solutions
Development of Ontology driven system is like any other dev, except perhaps one thing: focus is on subject centric computing. = system development with semtect approach
Top down – bottom up
Biz case requires a large understanding or business needs, application landscape, integration challenges, data sources and interfacesLack of risk taking in times when you should innovate and generate new type of business?
Ref. Forrester: Simplifying Information Architecture Creating An IA Program That Workshttp://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/0,7211,37385,00.html