OntoStudio:

Driving Enterprise Decision Support

OntoStudio is the most widespread commercial modeling environment for the creation and maintenance of ontologies. Ontostudio is a collaborative modelling environment for developing of semantic applications, with a particular emphasis on rule-based modelling.

There are a wide range of ontology development platforms available, particularly the very successful protege that is available as an open source environment. However Ontostudio offers a platform that is ideal for commercial organisations that want to develop solutions based on semantic technology.

An ontology is a formal definition of concepts in a domain and relationships between those concepts. Therefore, the development of ontologies in ontostudio enables the definition of a common vocabulary that can be used to integrate a range of data from different databases and apply rules and queries against the common model. Ontostudio offers features such as a graphical mapping tool to link ontologies to real time data in databases. Ontostudio also has a graphical rule development tool allowing users to develop complexed rules relating to the ontologies and underlying databases without having to create long complex streams of code. The ability to view rules graphically also enables more efficient verification and maintenance of rule sets whether the rule sets are large or small.

Semantic Integration with an Ontology brings meaning to your data and gives the control over integration back to the operating department.  The graphical mapping tool within Ontostudio allows simple and intuitive integration with a domain ontology.  Therefore the ontology gives the user a single interface into heterogeneous sources.

Ontostudio is a Java based environment that has been developed within the open source Eclipse java development suite. Ontostudio can be used to develop models in a standalone version on a desktop or through the use of the Ontobroker can become a collaborative modelling environment.

Ontostudio can be downloaded free for a 3 month trial.