“In many ways large and small, external and internal, the 2015 rendition of Enterprise Data World provided a world unto itself. … It was a world in which Artificial Intelligence lived, the Internet of Things (IoT) was a present (and not future) reality, and in which orderly Data Governance—across vertical industries and daunting regulatory compliance issues—reigned. Many of these people [attendees] were largely unaware of the role this technology [semantic technology] has throughout the data sphere from Data Integration to Data Governance, advanced analytics to the Industrial Internet. According to TopQuadrant co-founder, CMO and VP of Professional Services Robert Coyne: “Semantics is a complicated term and it’s understood in so many different ways. There’s the natural language meaning of Semantics, which is [simply] ‘meaning.’ In this conference people talk about the importance and the need to manage Semantics Data, but they’re not talking about Semantic Technology or a standards based way to enable Semantics. What we have under the covers is a standards based way to manage Semantics, and we can bring that to bear to solve business problems in such a way that it’s more strategic, it’s more flexible, and it’s more interoperable.””