We help corporations start their journey towards the new and disruptive "Linked Data" architecture where business data becomes automatically merged and integrated across systems, applications and devices.
Linked Data is a disruptive and mind blowing concept. The idea is to use the same elements that make up the internet to organize and merge your structured data. It is not a "Product" and not even a "Platform"", but rather a totally new "Data Architecture".
The name conveys a family of Technologies and Data Management Policies that will revolutionize how we understand and manage data within the enteprise and in our personal life.
Just like the World Wide Web became the foundation for Corporate Intranets, Linked Data will become the base for your Corporate Data Intranet. The earlier you start, the faster you will get there.
The World Wide Web is arguably the largest and most complex system ever built. It grows at an incredible pace with billions of contributors across the globle, yet there is no one paying an up front cost to organize everyone involved.
This feature is often called "Emergence" and is observed in certain complex systems. There are certain characteristics inherent to Emergent, self organizing systems, and Linked Data has all of them built-in.
Vendor lock-in and proprietary formats can stagnate the evolution of your data ecosystem and cost you millions in licensing fees over time that generate no real value to your bottom-line.
Linked Data is built on a family of mature and widely deployed open standards, which protects your investment and provides fertile ground for a rich and competitive ecosystem of tool vendors and providers.
The Internet is "deceptively" simple. While it provides only a small set of building blocks ( HTTP, URIs and HTML ), incredibly complex systems and applications can be built on top.
Linked Data follows the same minimalistic design principle and adds a small set of components directly on top of HTTP + URIs.
Adopting Linked Data does not require you to make a huge upfront investment nor move all your systems to a new server or product. There are a wide variety of strategies and tools, some of which will allow you to get started right away
The real challenge that companies face is understanding what these alternatives are and where they can fit. This is precisely where we can help.
 | Cloud Computing | Linked Data takes cloud computing one step further. By abstracting location and automatically integrating data, a huge "Linked Data Cloud" is emerging. Also, Cloud-based offerings of Graph databases exist, making it relatively easy to boostrap your Linked Data infrastructure on the cloud. |
| NoSQL | Graph databases, along with key-value stores and document databases, are part of the NoSQL ( Not Only SQL ) movement. Graph databases are capable of managing highly complex datamodels, and most of them natively support Linked Data. In fact, Linked Data is based on a Graph model. |
| Knowledge Management | RDF is extremely flexible and can be used as foundation for a structured Knowledge Repository. Unlike alternatives such as CMS systems or custom applications, using Linked Data for KM allows you to link your knowledge to, and generate it directly from, Operational systems. This reduces the need for syncronization and removes much of the "keep documentation in sync" overhead. |
| Social Network Integration | Facebook has recently joined the Linked Data movement by making its Open Graph data available in native RDF format. This means that you can easily "import" data from Facebook by using Linked Data protocols instead of "coding" against an API. |
| Business Intelligence | Databases that support the Linked Data stack, such as OpenLink Virtuoso, also support common Business Intelligence features such as aggregates. |
| Horizontal Big Data | While the traditional (Vertical) Big Data deals with the matter of quantity, Vertical Big Data refers to the "complexity" and fragmentation of your data. Linked Data excels at integrating heterogeneous data sources and making sense out of you distributed entities across systems and applications. |
Orand is a software manufacturer firm and Chile's first private research institute in engineering and computer science. As a software manufacturer, it develops products for innovation.
Continuum is a software development company serving large corporations in Latin America and the United States. In 2009 it expanded its worldwide operations by forming a partnership with Hashrocket, a world leader in agile development.
OpenLink Software is an acclaimed technology innovator and leading vendor of industry standards compliant data access, integration, and management technology.
Aldo Bucchi is a senior software engineer with over 10 years of experience in a wide spectrum of technologies and industries.
He specializes in Horizontal Data Integration and Usability, as well as corporate infrastructure adoption strategies.
Aldo is an entrepreneur, serves as innovation advisor to large corporations and startups, and has been part of the OpenLink professional services team for several years.You can find him moving back and forth between Silicon Valley and Latin America. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook, Github and Google+ .
Jorge Rodriguez is the Founder, President and CEO of Continuum, a boutique web and integration development company founded in 2008 with customers in Latin America and the United States. He previously served as Senior Java Developer and Software Architect for several big companies in Brazil and Chile.
Jorge is an experienced Web consultant and knows his way around several programming languages such as C, Java, Ruby, JavaScript, HTML and Python. He is also one of the masterminds behind the StarTechConf conference, a first-of-its-kind in Chile and the region.
Kingsley Uyi Idehen is Founder, President, and CEO of OpenLink Software.OpenLink Software is an acclaimed technology innovator and leading vendor of industry standards compliant data access, integration, and management technology.
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