A semantic data hub converts data from multiple sources into semantic triples, which can then be queries to generate output in a variety of forms.
The average Fortune 500 company in 2018 has well in excess of 1000 database servers, with tens of thousands of actual databases within those servers. Those same companies have untold thousands of micro-databases in the form of Excel spreadsheets, Access databases, Jupiter Notebooks, and text (CSV and fixed width) files. Factor in XML databases for content and digital access management, JSON files from various process, enough email to bury the United States or Canada to a depth of three feet (or a meter, eh) if it was ever printed out, and the results of Twitter,Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc., etc., etc., social media content about or by that company, and what emerges are organizations that are paralyzed by all the data they have gathered, after spending years to reach this stage.
by Kurt Cagle
