The ontoprise GmbH is a provider of Semantic Web

Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium that promotes common formats for data on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web of unstructured documents into a "web of...

 infrastructure technologies and products used to support dynamic semantic information integration and information management processes at the enterprise level. Its primary place of business is located at Karlsruhe, Germany.

History

The company was founded in 1999 by Prof. Dr. Juergen Angele, Prof. Dr. Stefan Decker, Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer

Rudi Studer

Rudi Studer is a German computer scientist and professor at KIT, Germany. He is the head of the knowledge management research group at the Institute AIFB and one of the directors of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute . He is former president of the Semantic Web Science Association, and a...

, Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab, and Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Hans-Peter Schnurr as a spin-off from Karlsruhe University (Germany) to commercialize newly developed technologies on ontology

Ontology

Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality as such, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations...

 reasoning.

Current product portfolio

• OntoStudio (formerly OntoEdit): modeling environment to create and maintain ontologies.
• OntoBroker: fast Semantic Web-Middleware for inferencing and managing ontologies. It supports the W3C Semantic Web recommendations: OWL
  Web Ontology Language
  The Web Ontology Language is a family of knowledge representation languages for authoring ontologies.The languages are characterised by formal semantics and RDF/XML-based serializations for the Semantic Web...
  
  , RDF
  Resource Description Framework
  The Resource Description Framework is a family of World Wide Web Consortium specifications originally designed as a metadata data model...
  
  , RDFS, SPARQL
  SPARQL
  SPARQL is an RDF query language; its name is an acronym that stands for SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language. It was made a standard by the RDF Data Access Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium, and considered as one of the key technologies of semantic web...
  
  , RIF
  Rule Interchange Format
  The Rule Interchange Format is a W3C Recommendation. RIF is part of the infrastructure for the semantic web, along with SPARQL, RDF and OWL...
  
  , and ObjectLogic (the successor of F-logic
  F-logic
  F-logic is a knowledge representation- and ontology language. F-logic combines the advantages of conceptual modeling with object-oriented, frame-based languages and offers a declarative, compact and simple syntax, as well as the well-defined semantics of a logic-based language.Features include,...
  
  ).
• SemanticMiner: ontology based company search.
• SemanticMiner for SharePoint: Microsoft SharePoint
  Microsoft SharePoint
  Microsoft SharePoint is a web application platform developed by Microsoft. First launched in 2001, SharePoint is typically associated with web content management and document management systems, but it is actually a much broader platform of web technologies, capable of being configured into a wide...
  
   Server ontology search extension
• SemanticGuide: expert system for field service
• SMW+
  SMW+
  SMW+ is an open source software bundle composed of the wiki application MediaWiki along with a number of its extensions. It is produced by the German software company Ontoprise GmbH. SMW+'s extensions include, most notably, Semantic MediaWiki and the...
  
  : semantic enterprise wiki for professional users

Further reading

• Use Case: How Ontologies and Rules Help to Advance Automobile Development "W3C Semantic Web Use Cases and Case Studies". June 2008.
• On The Cusp: A Global Review of the Semantic Web Industry. A Global Review of the Industry and Leading Vendors. David Provost. September 2008.