Cambridge Semantics to Participate in Big Data Leaders Forum

Oct. 1 — Cambridge Semantics, the leading provider of Smart Data software solutions driven by Semantic Web technology, today announced its participation in the 2014 Big Data Leaders Forum in Washington, D.C. The event will take place on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 at 3:15 p.m. ET.

Smart Data solutions provide semantic linkage and meaning to Big Data to allow users to rapidly discover, understand, analyze and manage diverse data. Ben Szekely, vice president and founding engineer of Cambridge Semantics, will present on building a “life sciences data lake” and an approach for collecting and tagging diverse data as it becomes available, allowing end users to easily analyze and use relevant data when they need it. In addition, Cambridge Semantics is exhibiting and is a Bronze Level sponsor of the conference.

Details

Szekely’s presentation will discuss the benefits of turning big data into actionable information that pharma leaders can base their decisions on. Pharmaceutical companies currently use Cambridge Semantics’ Anzo Pharma Information workbench to rapidly build customized Smart Data solutions for various areas including competitive intelligence, drug safety and pharmacovigilance, clinical data collection and reuse, R&D knowledge management, clinical trial metadata management and commercial compliance, among others. Additionally, the presentation will cover:

• Linking Big Data from diverse sources for easy understanding and reuse
• Building R&D informatics applications on top of a Life Sciences Data Lake
• Applications of a Data Lake in Pharma