Oracle Database Integrates Thomson Reuters Market Leading OpenCalais Service
01 September 2009 - 2:15PM
PR Newswire (US)
Tight Integration Empowers Oracle Spatial 11g Release 2 Users to
Deploy Production-Strength Semantic Solutions with Unprecedented
Speed REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. and NEW YORK, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ --
Oracle and Thomson Reuters today announced that Oracle Database 11g
Release 2, Semantic Technologies supports the market-leading
OpenCalais service. The integration enables Oracle users to
directly tap the power of OpenCalais to incorporate rich semantic
metadata into their production workflow environments. (Logo:
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OpenCalais.com, OpenCalais is the world's leading high-performance
semantic metadata extraction service. Supporting thousands of users
and millions of content transactions per day, OpenCalais enables
users to augment their textual content assets by automatically
identifying and extracting a wide range of information -- from
people and companies to geographies and market-moving business
transactions. The semantic metadata provided by OpenCalais helps
users perform better, more comprehensive searches for documents of
interest stored in Oracle Database. By populating the semantic
index in Oracle Database, it is now possible to go beyond keyword
searches to find documents that are conceptually relevant to the
user's search. With the new integration, the OpenCalais service can
be called directly by Oracle Spatial 11g, an option for Oracle
Database 11g Enterprise Edition that delivers an advanced semantic
data management capability not found in any other commercial or
open source database. With native support for RDF/RDFS/OWL/SKOS
standards, Oracle provides a robust platform to support a new class
of solutions that exploit the integration and discovery of
information from structured and unstructured content. Semantic
metadata generated by OpenCalais can now be loaded, indexed and
queried natively within Oracle Database. This enables application
developers to exploit the inherent scalability, security and
openness of Oracle, developing a range of enterprise applications
including semantic search, application integration, content
discovery and media repurposing. "Connecting the OpenCalais service
-- which has helped popularize semantic technologies in the
developer community -- with Oracle Database is a compelling value
proposition for our customers," said Xavier Lopez, Director,
Spatial & Semantic Technologies, Oracle Server Technologies.
"This interoperability lets users quickly process documents in
different formats such as Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF to extract
semantic metadata that can be used for more semantically complete
searches in Oracle Database 11g." OpenCalais uses the world's most
advanced natural language processing (NLP) technology to "read"
content, extracting the 'who, what, when, where and how' from text.
Breaking content down into its basic elements dramatically improves
search and navigation, and makes the integration and
interoperability of content possible across diverse platforms,
including content management systems, databases and enterprise
information services of all kinds. "We at Thomson Reuters are
extremely pleased with the integration of OpenCalais into Oracle
Database 11g R2," said Barak Pridor, CEO, ClearForest, the Thomson
Reuters company that produces OpenCalais. "Together, we're making
it easy for enterprise and commercial users to leverage the only
SaaS model semantic extraction tool with the scalability,
reliability and stability they need to support production-grade
solutions." Please visit OpenCalais.com and the Oracle user FAQ to
learn more. About the OpenCalais Initiative The OpenCalais
initiative supports the interoperability of content and advances
Thomson Reuters mission to deliver intelligent information. It
offers free metadata generation services, developer tools and an
automatic connection to the Linked Data cloud. The free OpenCalais
service and open API makes it easy to automate content operations,
enhance content, increase audience engagement and extend
distribution across the content ecosystem. Visit OpenCalais.com.
About Thomson Reuters Thomson Reuters is the world's leading source
of intelligent information for businesses and professionals. The
company combines industry expertise with innovative technology to
deliver critical information to leading decision makers in the
financial, legal, tax and accounting, scientific, healthcare and
media markets, powered by the world's most trusted news
organization. With headquarters in New York and major operations in
London and Eagan, Minnesota, Thomson Reuters employs more than
50,000 people in 93 countries. For more information, go to
ThomsonReuters.com. Trademarks Oracle is a registered trademark of
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Krista Thomas, Thomson Reuters OpenCalais Initiative,
+1-415-202-3523, Web Site: http://thomsonreuters.com/
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