by Irene Polikoff | Apr 13, 2015 | Reference Data Management
Recently TopQuadrant partnered with Malcolm Chisholm, a thought leader in master and reference data management, to conduct a webinar on reference data management entitled: The Foundations of Successful Reference Data Management. Click here to watch the recorded...
by Irene Polikoff | Feb 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
Much of the data today is held in spreadsheets. Not surprisingly, there is a lot interest in transforming spreadsheet data into RDF. Spreadsheets are very flexible. The most commonly used format is a simple table with a column header on top. But there are spreadsheets...
by Irene Polikoff | Feb 16, 2015 | Uncategorized
In the beginning, software processing was about automating paper-based business processes. The processes modeled were reasonably static and the data often fit into the tabular format. Hugely successful, this approach resulted in the digitization of immense amounts of...
by Irene Polikoff | Oct 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
In the insightful post Big Data: New Oil or Snake Oil? recently published on wired.com, Simon Moss distinguishes between two different types of Big Data: New data volumes capturing web-based digital retail, mobile activities, social media interactions and Internet...
by Irene Polikoff | May 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
TopBraid platform heavily uses SPARQL – for queries, for rules, for data transformations and templated data services. From time to time, we get asked to describe advantages of SPARQL over SQL (the data query language people are most familiar with). The question may be...