LOD2 is a large-scale European project that brings together Linked Open Data researchers and companies. The project aims to integrate Linked Data into existing applications and show benefits in media, publishing, corporate intranets, and eGovernment. 3DS Exalead is a partner in LOD2 and presented their CloudView platform, which enables search and analytics across structured and unstructured data through semantic techniques.

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LOD2 is a large-scale integrating project co-funded by the European
Commission within the FP7 Information and Communication Technologies
Work Programme. This 4-year project comprises leading Linked Open
Data technology researchers, companies, and service providers. Coming
from across 12 countries the partners are coordinated by the Agile
Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web Research Group at the
University of Leipzig, Germany.
LOD2 will integrate and syndicate Linked Data with existing large-scale
applications. The project shows the benefits in the scenarios of Media and
Publishing, Corporate Data intranets and eGovernment.
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Once per month the LOD2 webinar series offer a free webinar about
tools and services along the Linked Open Data Life Cycle.
Stay with us and learn more about acquisition, editing, composing,
connected applications – and finally publishing Linked Open Data.
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3DS Exalead CloudView platform
The unified access platform to data, by Nigel MOTTE, Sébastien Brossolasco & Amar-Djalil MEZAOUR,
3DS Exalead
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Webinar plan
- 3DS Exalead presentation, by Amar-Djalil Mezaour
- 3DS Exalead & Cloudview in LOD2, by Amar-Djalil Mezaour
- Cloudview V6 overview, by Nigel Motte
- Demonstration, by Sébastien Brossolasco
- Summary
- Q&A
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3DS Exalead
http://www.3ds.com/products/exalead/
- Founded in 2000 by search engines pioneers: François Bourdoncle & Patrice Bertin
- Exalead has been acquired by Dassault Systèmes on June 2010
- 3DS Exalead provides search and unified information access software to enterprise
data sylos
- 3DS Exalead CloudView platform is a scalable infrastructure for Search-Based
Applications (SBAs)
- CloudView platform enables the processing of structured and unstructured data to
reveal the hidden intelligence behind enterprise information using advancing semantic
and analytics techniques.
- Exalead customers
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3DS Exalead & Cloudview in LOD2
- 3DS Exalead is partner of LOD2 project and leads WP8 activities: “LOD2 for enterprise
data web”
- 3DS Exalead role in LOD2 project:
 Integrate LOD paradigm in an enterprise application
 Demonstrate LOD usefulness in a business use case
 Identify market opportunities for LOD business applications
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3DS Exalead & Cloudview in LOD2
- How linked open data can play a major role in enhancing efficiency in enterprise apps?
 Data integration:
 Linked data can contribute to disambiguate key data of an IT application
 Open datasets are useful sources in cleaning internal information system’s
data sources and completing them with missing information
 Reference and open schemas can provide useful means for checking the
consistency of a business application and repair errors
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3DS Exalead & Cloudview in LOD2
- How linked open data can play a major role in enhancing efficiency in enterprise apps?
 Enhanced mashups:
 Advanced interfaces and widgets presenting heterogeneous data
 Rich user experience in consuming data from internal enterprise application
and external datasets
 Semantic enrichment
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3DS Exalead & Cloudview in LOD2
- How linked open data can play a major role in enhancing efficiency in enterprise apps?
 Advanced analytics:
 Accuracy gain in KPI computing
 Advanced dashboarding
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3DS Exalead & Cloudview in LOD2
- Cloudview in LOD2 lifecycle:
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3DS Exalead CloudView overview
Nigel MOTTE, 3DS Exalead
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EXALEAD CloudView a
platform for Search and
Analytics
Search
•Very fast scalable acess to data
•Support text, numerical, date and point types
•Search is not just about keywords: support for numerical
ranges, proximity…
•Search can be exact and exhaustive
•Intuitive user experience with the navigation through the
faceting
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EXALEAD CloudView a platform for
Search and Analytics
Analytics
•Fast analytics on huge datasets, based on faceting capabilities
•Very low latency compared to batch oriented processing
•Near linear scalability on the number of cores
•Intuitive multi axis navigation
•Analytics on both structured and unstructured content
•Search features available for analytics applications
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EXALEAD CloudView Architecture
Data sources
Index User Experience
Indexing Search
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EXALEAD CloudView major points
Connectivity
•Standard data sources (csv, xml, databases…)
•Enterprise applications (SAP, PeopleSoft…)
•Web crawler
Semantic
•at indexing time
•at query time
Mashup
•Powerful tool to build applications on top of the indexed data
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EXALEAD CloudView – one
platform for 3 approaches
Packaged application
Standard SBA
OEM and advanced integration
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OEM and advanced
integrations
• Al the settings are avail e through APIs for a programmatic approach
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• Customizabl through Java entry points packaged as pl
e ugins
• Advanced settings avail e for fine tunings
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• Spreading of the configuration across al the nodes
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Standard Search Based
Application
• End to end approach from the data to the user for fast appl
ication creation
• Modern web based user interface with mobil support
e
• Powerfulweb based IDE appl
ication designer (Mashup Buil
der)
• Connectivity to databases, maj enterprise appl
or ications (partl based on a partnership with
y
Informatica), Enovia…
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Packaged application
• Configuration base
• User interface adapted to the usage (but stil configurabl using the Mashup Buil
l e der)
• Custom components required for the usage
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3DS Exalead CloudView demonstration
Sébastien Brossolasco, 3DS Exalead
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Thank you for your attention and your interest on 3DS Exalead & Cloudview
For more information, visit us @http://www.3ds.com/products/exalead/
Stay tuned on 3DS Exalead news @http://blog.exalead.com/
Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/3DSExalead
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Credits
Jingle R.E.M., Martin Kaltenböck, Florian Kondert
Coordination Thomas Thurner
Martin Kaltenböck
Moderation Martin Kaltenböck
Presented by Sébastien Brossolasco, Nigel Motte, Amar Djalil Mezaour
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Hope you enjoyed staying with us – if you need more detailed
information, visit us at www.lod2.eu and let us know how we can
improve to meet your expectations!
Don’t forget to register for our next webinar
06.19. 2012 – PoolParty Thesaurus Manager (SWC)
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