Enterprise Taxonomy Assessment

Many companies have been considering creating and using taxonomies to help organize an ever-increasing volume of information being created and used daily by employees. However, most companies do not know where to start, or even have a clear understanding of how taxonomies can be used to help improve search, increase content value or facilitate compliance.

Our experienced team of taxonomists, metadata modelers and business consultants can help define an overall strategy and road-map for implementing Business Semantics Management in a specific organization or enterprise-wide. They have helped numerous companies define a business case, refine strategy, evaluate current metadata management capabilities and build extensible data models tied directly to business requirements and industry best practices.


» Sample Engagement: Taxonomy Site Assessment

This engagement is intended to provide a more detailed set of recommendations for assessing a client’s current state and proposed best practices for building a Business Semantics Management solution, including:

  • Site Assessment – investigating the customer environment
  • Content Analysis
  • Defining business requirements for a Taxonomy
  • Assessing impacts to people, process (work-flow) and technology
  • Recommendations for implementing/maintaining a taxonomy and technologies / architecture needed

» Sample Engagement: Metadata Strategy

This engagement is intended to define a strategy for developing and managing taxonomies in information systems.

Metadata Strategy - Building and Maintaining Taxonomies for:
SharePoint, Content Management, Portals, Search or Auto-categorization
(5 to 10 days, with 1 to 2 people)

Specifically, the engagement will advise clients in:

  • Understanding Key Business Drivers & Requirements (for findability, compliance, retention, etc.)
  • Developing an initial Data Model Design and Implementation (v1. of Model)
  • Developing Guidelines for maintaining and extending a taxonomy


Case study
Project Scope: Assist Customer in developing, testing and implementing a data model that can be used as a guide for developing Customer’s Enterprise Content Management System.
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Service Offerings Overview
Enterprise Taxonomy Assessment
Workshop: Valuing Enterprise Taxonomy Efforts
Workshop: Conducting Taxonomy Self-Assessments

 

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