Mondeca Helping Transition Legacy Applications to Service Oriented Architectures

Semantic Technology Expert Collaborating on TAO Project with Leading Industry and Academic Partners

Paris, France – 6 February 2007. Mondeca S.A., a leader in applying semantic technology to help organizations obtain maximum return from their accumulated knowledge and content, today announced that it is participating in a groundbreaking project to transition legacy applications to semantic Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs).

The goal of the TAO project is to define a low-cost route to transitioning legacy systems to open semantic SOAs in order to enable semantic interoperability between heterogeneous data resources and distributed applications.

Leveraging its real-world experience of moving legacy applications to semantic based solutions, Mondeca will help define methodologies for the transition process and will participate in an industrial case study to provide semantic support to aircraft maintenance business processes.

“Mondeca are delighted to join industry leaders such as Dassault Aviation in the application of semantic technologies to solving real business problems”, said Jean Delahousse, CEO of Mondeca. “We are confident that TAO will further demonstrate the value of ontology based approaches in reducing application complexity and total cost of application ownership”.

Mondeca and Dassault Aviation are joined by academic and industrial partners University of Sheffield (UK), University of Southampton (UK), Atos Origin (Spain), Josef Stezan Institute (Slovenia) and Ontotext Lab (Bulgaria).

About Mondeca

Mondeca specializes in helping organizations obtain maximum return from their accumulated knowledge and content. Its solutions are used by industry, media, publishing and government customers worldwide. Mondeca is a privately owned venture funded company. Venture partners are Trinova and Natexis Private Equity

Mondeca’s flagship Intelligent Topic Manager™ product manages reference taxonomies and ontologies, performs classification of structured and unstructured text and multi-media source data, and organizes information and knowledge for more effective navigation and search over a variety of output channels. For more information see http://www.mondeca.com

About TAO

TAO is a targeted research project of the European Union’s 6th Framework Programme involving 7 partners from 5 European countries. The three year programme is coordinated by the University of Sheffield, UK. For more information see http://www.tao-project.eu or contact Dr. Kalina Bontcheva of Sheffield University at K.Bontcheva@dcs.shef.ac.uk