Hi, > Is there some success story with a quantification of business savings due to > adopting a Linked-Data infrastructure ? > Or perhaps some estimate of revenues/sales from linked-data based products ? > > I think if some companies using Linked Data based technologies can publish > something on those lines (may be some have already done so, but I don't > recall seeing any with numbers), it would definitely help the industrial > adaption of Linked Data as others can evaluate the benefits and risks of > using Linked Data based on some empirical evidence. Indeed, that would be very useful!
best, Andrea > > Best Regards, > Nandana > > Then there are a few other considerations to be made. > > I'm not familiar with Jazz products, but looking at the website is a complete > suite of things. Is Linked-Data used as a flagship products for a suite where > the other components are what people is willing to pay for ? > > Also, where do we trace the boundary of what is linked data and what is not ? > Beyond a strict technical definition, if somebody takes a linked-data > resource, put it into a graph database and doesn't use RDF/sparql anymore... > we could argue that the value (eventually) generated is still at some point > due to the availability of linked-data resources. Or not ? > > Again, I'm playing the devil's advocate here, I'm not needing to be > convinced. But I'm expressing some reflections that were actual comments of > people, to which I didn't really know what to answer, except that they should > think at linked-data like highways... > > best, > Andrea > > > Il giorno 07/giu/2013, alle ore 10:31, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya > <[email protected]> > ha scritto: > >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Andrea Splendiani >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> I think the issue is not whether there is money or not in linked data, but: >> how much money is in linked data ? >> >> Lot of money has been injected by research funds, maybe governments and >> maybe even industry. >> Is the business generated of less, more, or just about the same value ? >> >> As it was mentioned several times in this thread, Linked Data for Enterprise >> Application Integration has generated a lot of business and there is a lot >> of money in it. One good example would be IBM Jazz products [2] based on >> Linked Data [1]. >> >> Best Regards, >> Nandana >> >> [1] - https://jazz.net/story/about/about-jazz-platform.jsp >> [2] - https://jazz.net/products/ >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by MailScanner, and >> we believe but do not warrant that this e-mail and any attachments thereto >> do not contain any viruses. However, you are fully responsible for >> performing any virus scanning.
