Ontoprise GmbH


The ontoprise GmbH was a provider of Semantic Web infrastructure technologies and products used to support dynamic semantic information integration and information management processes at the enterprise level. Its primary place of business was located at Karlsruhe, Germany.

History

The company was founded in 1999 by Prof. Dr. Juergen Angele, Prof. Dr. Stefan Decker, Prof. Dr. Rudi Studer, Prof. Dr. Steffen Staab, and Dipl.-Wirtsch.-Ing. Hans-Peter Schnurr as a spin-off from Karlsruhe University to commercialize newly developed technologies on ontology reasoning. In 2012 Ontoprise had to file for bankruptcy, see below. On July 6, 2012, Darmstadt-based semafora systems GmbH acquired for an undisclosed purchase price the majority of products and business areas from Ontoprise, namely SemanticXpress, SemanticGuide, SemanticMiner, OntoBroker, OntoStudio, SemanticIntegrator and SemanticContentAnalytics. As a consequence nearly all Ontoprise employees left the company. Commercial support for SMW+ is now offered by DIQA, a start-up founded by former Ontoprise employees.

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