“…It’s [Semantic Technology] one of those areas of tech that’s becoming more important as organizations of all kinds contend with streams of information that contain multiple data structures (or no structures) and move at speeds that approach the threshold of mind-boggling. As Irene Polikoff, CEO of semantic data integration company TopQuadrant in Raleigh-Durham, N.C., told Dice Insights: “Pretty much every major bank has a group working in this area.” … “With semantic technology, data and metadata can be stored in the same standard and space. Among other things, that means the data warehouse doesn’t have to be designed in advance.”