The work on this specification began in 2017 and the beta specification is published on the Object Management Group site, omg.org on
Join authors Deborah McGuinness and Elisa Kendall for the next KGC Book Club for Ontology Engineering. It will be a live and
On May 4th, Thematix presented its short course in business architecture for enterprise architects, business analysts and strategists. Whether you were able
This presentation was given by our Partner, Elisa Kendall, at the Knowledge Graph Conference 2020. Elisa is the principal ontologist behind the
Just as a building architect’s schematic shows a common picture of the basic elements of a large and complex edifice, a business
Analyzing and improving business processes is a fundamental practice of business analysts, but until recently, the role of business process modeling and
The National Retail Federation is expecting a strong holiday season for 2019. That’s good news for retailers who have for years struggled with profound
Clienteling makes customers happier and sales associates smarter. Much like Unified Commerce, a global “360° View” of your customer Client requires marshaling data from multiple internal and
Now more than ever, the retail industry must be built for speed. In the past, a brilliant strategy enabled success and growth.
A business of any size will have invested in creating models of business structure (e.g. organization charts, application portfolios) and behavior (e.g.
Empowering Organizations to Accelerate Performance through Smarter Solutions SDLC Partners and Thematix have announced a unique alliance to marry strategic consulting with technology solutions to
INTRODUCTION: USING BUSINESS ARCHITECTURE TO DESIGN A STARTUP Business startup culture has always been contrarian and proudly unorthodox, embracing “disruption” as a
Digital Transformation is difficult because it affects everyone and everything in the company. Business Architecture lets you create a model and an
“We picture facts to ourselves….A picture is a model of reality….A picture is a fact.” – Wittgenstein It is striking that business
Showing up is 80% of life. — Woody Allen Thematix is building on its considerable experience developing and teaching business architecture to offer an online
I’m a week out of the 5th Annual Business Architecture Innovation Summit & Business Architecture Reference Model Workshop and may now have enough
“The concepts of business architecture offer generative abstractions. They are among the most well-developed and universal of business abstractions, useful and comprehensible across
This 2016 Business Architecture Survey General Findings Report is written in collaboration by Whynde Kuehn, Partner at Business Architecture Associates, Robert Kost,
The Architecture of Change; business architecture and the meaning of Digital Transformation Figure 1: Wave of the Future. Image from “Wave
Business architecture and the meaning of Digital Transformation Figure 1: Subway Abstract. Copyright 1972 Massimo Vignelli [This is Part 2 of a
Business architecture and the meaning of Digital Transformation Figure 1: Fish to Fowl, ‘Class’ Transformation [This is Part 1 of a
Technology has found a new home in the Marketing Department. And it’s a mess. Scott Brinker @chiefmartech.com published the chart above in
Thematix Partner Jim Rhyne, a founder and co-creator of the Business Architecture Guild‘s core specifications, has been awarded the right to proudly display this
The Rosetta Stone was discovered by soldiers in Napoleon’s army at the end of the 18th Century. It memorializes a decree by King
Though Google, Bing, Yahoo and Yandex are quick to point out the search engine optimization benefits of SCHEMA.ORG markup, we have yet
In two weeks (August 18 to 21), we begin our annual migratory journey to the Semantic Technology and Business Conference, this year in
[this is a re-post of a recent note to the public-vocabs@w3.org group, concerned with building up the Schema.org vocabulary. We welcome your
We often mistake the accidental for the essential. We assume that, because something is a certain way that it had to be
This time of year is always busy for everyone, and the December OMG Technical Meeting always comes in the middle of holiday
We have seen that Schema.org is of distinct importance to enhanced SEO efforts. As if to drive the point home, Google’s recent
Thematix and the Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web group at University of Leipzig are partnering to make RDFaCE — the
Elisa Kendall, a Partner at Thematix, will be leading a discussion about FIBO at the FIBO Technology Summit on June 5 in San Francisco. The event
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Elisa Kendall , Partner at Thematix, and Mark Linehan of IBM Research have authored a proposed mapping of the Semantics of
The fourth generation of Gantry introduces a selection of new and desirable features to its arsenal, such as a responsive layout. Gantry
Elisa Kendall and Deborah McGuinness presented our perennial favorite at this year’s New York Semantic Technology & Business Conference: Ontology 101. As
[This article was originally published in Tnooz on August 1, 2012] A year ago, Google, Bing (Microsoft) and Yahoo announced Schema.org: a taxonomy that would allow webpages to
Thematix has released a draft of extensions to Schema.org that would enable hoteliers to better describe their offerings to search engines. The
So, here’s one of the many Wolfram-Alpha Widgets, this a bit less constrained than some other single-purpose widgets:
Thematix was pleased to help facilitate a discussion among progressive travel providers at their recent annual OpenTravel Advisory Forum in Miami, Florida.
[This post by Thematix Partner Larry Smith originally appeared in Tnooz on February 28, 2012] A hotel is dynamic — a veritable
[This post originally appeared as “Why you need to care about travel technology, semantic web and ontology“ in the January 3, 2012 edition
[The following article was written by Thematix partner Larry Smith and first appeared in Tnooz on December 8, 2011] It took me
[As published on October 11, 2011 in Tnooz] In June of this year, Google, Bing and Yahoo jointly announced – with little
Republished here in its entirety is the latest article published in Tnooz by Thematix’s Larry Smith In a previous Tnooz article I
Steve Rubel is “Director of Insights” at Edelman Digital. (Now, that’s an interesting job title!) It appears that Steve’s job is to
There is a tendency of technologists — particularly those in semantic technology — to allow their infatuation with the technology to obscure
THEMATIX is building the roads as it drives on them. We (in the person of Elisa Kendall) will join the fray at
We have discovered no better introduction to knowledge representation, OWL and the semantic web than that provided by our own Elisa Kendall,
Buddy Altus of the Avis Budget Group, and Robert Kost of Thematix, shared observations concerning the roles of Semantics in Travel Distribution
Thematix partners will be in attendance at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco, from June 5 (tomorrow, by this post’s date)
Thematix’s own Elisa Kendall was interviewed by SemanticWeb.com in anticipation of the upcoming Semtech conference in San Francisco,where Elisa and Robert Kost
The TED Conference produces many exceptional ideas worth sharing and the one by Rory Sutherland explaining “intangible value” could be a beacon