The Smart Data Blog

The FDA has adopted the CDISC SDTM standard for clinical trial submission. While the standard has the potential to simplify the reporting processes, adoption poses challenges to and raises questions...

As FDA outlines, “the submission of standardized study data enhances a reviewer’s ability to more fully understand and characterize the efficacy and safety of a medical product,” and adopted CDISC...

There is a massive transformation underway in the financial services industry and it’s all about the data. Unprecedented regulatory reporting demands and increasing competitive pressures are forcing...

We recently contributed an article to CMS Wire, a popular web magazine focused on information management and other enterprise issues.

David Saul, Chief Scientist at State Street Corp., recently penned a short article putting forth the need for technology-driven data governance in the financial industry. His analysis ties this need...

Provenance and lineage. Two wonderful words, used interchangeably, to describe a sticky problem for most large financial institutions. Together they ask: what is the origin, meaning and quality of...

Large organizations typically require hundreds of integrations between disparate legacy systems to meet enterprise business requirements. Even with a SOA approach, this complex web of point-to-point...

With Gartner and Forrester both identifying semantic technology as a key trend to watch in 2013, the first question many folks are asking is, "What is semantic technology?" My goal here is to answer...

At Cambridge Semantics we use the W3C semantic web standards to create conceptual canonical data models, in particularly using the web ontology modeling language called OWL. The conceptual models...