BUSINESS CASE FOR THE FINANCE ONTOLOGY AND SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

The ontology is an information center on:

The information has following characteristics:

• a lexicon of the used concepts

• a taxonomy, this is the classification of concepts with inheritance of

properties

• relations between concepts with role-definitions

generic: thus adaptable to new products, production processes, procedures, involved parties, technologies, ...
but also new external factors are coped with, notably changes in legislation, risks, environment,...
accessible to men and machines through:

• a uniform representation of the information which is universal as method

• different channels of communication. The one we choose is the most

open: web ontology language (.owl)

extended intelligence: through the usage of "reasoners" we obtain more information than we have been putting in
when production information (individuals) is linked to the logical model one obtains a knowledge base. With a knowledge base, it is possible to derive more information yet and check the coherence of the data with the logical model
query possibilities to control the application of business rules,...