This month’s Cutter report includes a piece by Mitchell Ummel
as guest editor. He suggests a number of areas ripe for use of semantically aware applications:
- Business intelligence (BI)
- Data mining (across structured and unstructured
data stores - E-discovery (across centralized and distributed
data stores) - Customer relationship management (CRM) systems,
leveraging the entirety of the social networking fabric - Dynamic business rules (inference engine)
optimization - Ontology-based security/trust credentialing,
private social networks, and public referral/viral
product marketing using FOAF (Friend of a Friend),
POWDER (Protocol for Web Description Resource),
and other maturing standards - Extract, transform, load (ETL) services (RDF-izers),
which automatically transform and publish enterprise
data into private and/or public ontological stores - Embedded control, telemetry, and data acquisition
systems relating to devices, equipment, and sensors,
including (but not limited to) enablement of smart
grid3 energy management systems