Ontology Systems

Ontology Systems is the trading name of Ontology Partners Limited, a privately held Software company founded in London in 2005 by Benedict Enweani and Leo Zancani. Ontology offers a graph-search data alignment and linking platform used by communication service providers to deliver a view of their customers, infrastructure and the condition of their data.

Ontology grew out of the data integration issues experienced by Enweani and Zancani whilst CTO and Head of Engineering respectively at Orchestream (founded by Charlie Muirhead). Ontology customers include Telenor, T-Mobile, BT, Level 3 Communications, Three UK, Vodacom, MBNL, Vodafone, Neotel, Internet Solutions and Telkom SA.

Products and Services

Ontology 4 uses techniques originally developed in the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Semantic Web initiative to replace traditional data integration activities with an approach based on semantic search.

Ontology Systems offer functionality aimed at communications service providers in the form of the "Intelligent 360 for Network Operators" product, which operators use to construct a unified model of their network, the services it implements and the customers they are sold to.

Under the strap-line "Know Your Network", Intelligent 360 for Network Operators addresses operational challenges in the areas of network change management, network troubleshooting, customer and inventory navigation and data integrity tracking and reporting.

External links

• Ontology Systems
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