Ontologies for Business Analysis

An introduction to knowledge-based methods for transforming your business into the intelligent enterprise

Created by: Tish Chungoora
Knowledge Graph Consultant | Ph.D. | CSPO | BCS Certified

What Will I Learn?

• Conceptualise ontologies in the context of business analysis, with a focus on their purpose, importance and the underlying business case for their application
• Understand how to define 'blueprints' for organising enterprise domain knowledge by using the building blocks of ontologies and how they are arranged
• Appreciate the importance of rigour in business modelling, by capturing formal semantics (meaning) and logical axioms for defining business rules
• Become familiar with the Web Ontology Language (OWL) for building structures that have inherently complex relationships

Requirements

• [Must Have] Good appreciation of the purpose and scope of business and enterprise analysis
• [Must Have] Comfortable with jargon used in the IT and information systems domain and the ability to grasp technical concepts
• [Optional] Ideally some basic understanding of structured modelling approaches (e.g. information modelling using UML) and the ability to recognise patterns in information structure
• [Optional] Basic familiarity with ontologies and knowledge graphs

Target audience

• Professionals who work in the field of business analysis, enterprise analysis, enterprise architecture and knowledge management
• Change champions willing to keep abreast of leading-edge methods for supporting enterprise and business transformation programmes
• Data modellers and information architects (but more generally people who work with structured modelling approaches for data and information) who do not have prior exposure to ontologies
• Practitioners involved in model-driven and service-oriented architectures with an interest in systems interoperability
• Academics with an interest in the ground-breaking applications of ontology tools and techniques