What do databases, program logic, business process and program management all have in common? All of these elements within a single enterprise should share the same set of terminology and conventions. There ought to be a shared, unifying foundation that logically binds all of these pieces together into one common picture. This is seldom the case, though, and that fact is one of the primary reasons why systems integration has traditionally been so costly, time consuming and ultimately unsuccessful. There is though a practice area emerging specifically to deal with what may likely be the most pivotal of all enterprise technologies – this new practice is Semantic Integration.

Read more about Semantic Integration in this 2007 article we produced for Information Management Magazine: http://www.information-management.com/issues/2007_48/10001198-1.html