Unicorn is working closely with its customers and partners to enable the management and integration of data based on semantics – a rich understanding of data’s meaning in business terms – with the ultimate aim of quality business information, a flexible business environment, and lower IT costs.

Unicorn envisions an information technology environment predicated on an information architecture in which data carries unambiguous semantics and can be found, aggregated, and utilized accurately without prior knowledge of its specific format. The Unicorn System is built around several core patent-pending innovational technologies that are key to realizing this vision:

• Creating a rich model of a business, its structure, vocabulary, and rules in an Information Model

• Cataloging data assets, including their schemas and other metadata

• Formally capturing the semantics of corporate data by mapping database and message schemas to the Information Model

• Automatically generating end-to-end data transformation tasks and auto-mappings

• Providing a business interface for data management

This section of the site explores developments, background, and descriptions regarding both data semantics and the application of semantics to commercial use.