Fewer misunderstandings with iKnow Semantics

With iKnow Semantics it is possible to model the semantics of a knowledge domain. With this, you capture terminology and its meaning centrally within your organization, preventing miscommunication.

Understanding with iKnow Semantics

Does it happen in your organization that people think they understand each other, but it turns out afterwards that terms have different meanings? Is the meaning of terms in your organization not clear to everyone?

Semantics is the art of assigning meaning. This is essential when working with data, rules and processes. Yet it is often an understudied child.

iKnow Semantics makes clearly defining semantics an essential part of your organization. Together with the other modules of the iKnow suite, iKnow Semantics forms a powerful hub within that suite by capturing the meaning of each element – for example, a process step, an attribute in a line or a value in the data model.

Key features

Defining concepts in one place

Define all of your organization’s terms in one place.

Concepts are connected

Relationships between concepts are secured and established.

Link concepts to data, rules and processes

All terms can be linked to all parts of your model.

Multilingualism and language level

Define terms in different languages and at different language levels

Understanding the relationships between concepts

At a glance, clear what terms your organization uses and how they relate to each other.

The benefits

  • A central place for terms and definitions saves searching for the meaning of terms used in the organization every time.
  • Terms from external parties such as regulators are linked to the internal terms to enable automatically generated compliance statements.
  • Jargon is no longer a barrier for employees to master a new domain of knowledge.
  • With iKnow Semantics , homonyms are brought to the surface and the meaning of a term becomes clear to everyone.