Semantic Brokers

Semantic brokers aid the process of building & maintaining the enterprise message model, in particular, the process of adapting each of the application systems to the model.

A semantic broker contains a semantic model that is a core representation of the shared concepts of the enterprise.

And integrator will use a semantic broker tool set to define mappings from various application systems to the enterprise semantic model.

Examples of such products are:

• Contivo - which is a design time semantic broker which translates the semantic map built by the integrator into a run-time component - based on the middle-ware and architecture in place.
• Ontoprise - this is primarily an ontology editor for the B2B market place which has a semantic broker capability as well.

There used to be another product from Unicorn which was bought by IBM in 2006 and was disappeared.