GRIPS Semantic Web

The Semantic Web is being heralded as the next generation of application development, whereas previous application development efforts produced static data that stayed in physically disconnected organizational silos. Today, more and more companies perceive the need for dynamic access to the appropriate information throughout the enterprise. So, Semantic Web application development is targeted at delivering rich internet applications that can discover and deliver implicit and undocumented logical information connections across all silos. This data is then delivered for various analytics and Business Intelligence applications.

GRIPS is a single-source, semantically structured information management system that captures all product lifecycle knowledge as it emerges, in the context of the product itself, in a six-vectored structure including ontologies and taxonomies.

By separating the information capture and storage from publication formats, GRIPS "future proofs" technical product information while enabling different systems to analyze and manipulate the information in meaningful ways.

Once the information is in the GRIPS structure, a simple script is all that is needed to automatically and accurately produce any product information in any document or format and in any language, all from the same single-source of information. In fact, with a simple script the high level of data semantics in GRIPS can be pushed out to the Web, making data computer accessible and understandable, instantly.

Instead of having to set layers of attributes on top of document-related data, coming out of classic document and content management systems, GRIPS, captures product information in intelligent, i.e. semantic structures as the data is created. Thus, meaning can be linked immediately to every piece of information, creating a comprehensive and complex knowledge web, which can intelligently create product documentation for any purpose (e.g. training, marketing, post-sales material). This meaningful semantic web ultimately can be published into an electronic, or computer readable Web application - the Semantic Web.