Semaphore - unifying informat ion
wit h FIBO and semant ics

Semaphore unifies enterprise information
Complete, precise and
consistent metadata
Harmonization of data from
disparate data sources
Leverage external
vocabularies (e.g. FIBO)
Augment BI and analytics

Our customers prove semantics are being
adopted rapidly

• Compliance
– KYC
– FATCA
– MiFID II
– BCBS239
– Dodd Frank Prudential Standards
– Contract analysis and compliance
• Automation of content intensive business processes
– Client on-boarding
– Mortgage application processing
• Business Intelligence and analytics
– Risk analysis
– Customer 360
Financial Services use cases

The challenge
VOCAB 2 VOCAB 4
VOCAB 1 VOCAB 3
Users cannot understand the data
Unstructured content is opaque
BI is hindered by disparate information
Workflows are disjointed
Finding and discovering is slow
Information governance and application
development is hard
Extract Transform Load (ETL)
• Time consuming to implement
• Brittle – changes in upstream systems break it
• Doesn’t address unstructured content
Data warehouses & data marts
• Designed for known problems, users and data
• Expensive
• Semantics are not flexible

The solution
Data Hub
ETL /
Semantics
Search
/
Analytics
Semaphore
SME
Data
sources
Workflow
ECM /
SharePoint
Public Models
(e.g. FIBO)
Reference sources
User

Unified information is needed
Data columns with same meaning are identified and combined
Data fields with different vocabulary are mapped
Data is well described making it easy to use
Data is well organized so that users can find data assets
Facts and relationships extracted from unstructured information

Build and provide semantic models
Simplify the ingestion, development or customization of ontologies
What is Semaphore?
Assisted and automated metadata enrichment
Automatically describe all your information with rich metadata
Knowledge discovery and surfacing
User interfaces to leverage the ontologies to deliver the richest experience
for users when publishing, using and analyzing information
Smartlogic provides Semaphore on-premise, in the cloud and with services

Delivers critical information to leading decision makers in the
financial and risk, legal, tax and accounting, intellectual
property and science and media markets
THE RESULT
• A complete metadata catalogue organizing and describing all
data assets
• Faster time to market for new products, new interfaces and
product enhancements leading to increased revenue and
customer satisfaction
• Dramatically reduced cost and risk compared to rebuild of
back end applications
Thomson Reuters

KPMG
Provides audit, tax and advisory services to a broad range of
domestic and international entities
THE RESULT
• A managed service for automated collection and processing of
client on-boarding processes for banks and fund managers
• Ensures compliance with KYC and FATCA regulations
• Increased on-boarding efficiency and speed by more than 50%
• Decreased error rates and more accurate and complete
reference data

• Banks can ingest, link and customize FIBO using a collaborate platform
• Make FIBO available to applications across the Bank to improve the quality of
data and metadata
• Endow data lakes with consistent vocabulary, combined data, extracted facts
and well described data
Semaphore puts FIBO to work in the enterprise

Demos

Familiarizing with FIBO V

Extending FIBO

Additional Reference Data

360 degree view by extracting from contracts

360 degree view by extracting from contracts

In Summary
Easily explore FIBO
Data columns with same meaning are identified and combined
Data fields with different vocabulary are mapped
Facts and relationships extracted from unstructured information
Data is well described making it easy to use

• Any questions?
Questions / next steps
trial.smartlogic.com/FIBO
toby.conrad@smartlogic.com
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