stefan decker hans peter schnurr steffen staab rudi studer headquarters karlsruhe germany number of employees 48 2009 website ontoprise.com 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 . contents 1 history 2 product portfolio 3 research 4 references 5 further reading 6 external links history edit 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 germany to commercialize newly developed technologies on ontology reasoning . in 2012 the company filed for bankruptcy see below . 1 on july 6 2012 darmstadt based semafora systems gmbh with financial backing from triangle venture capital group took over some products and business areas from ontoprise namely semanticguide semanticminer ontobroker ontostudio semanticintegrator and semanticcontentanalytics . 2 commercial support for smw is now offered by diqa a start up founded by former ontoprise employees . 3 product portfolio edit ontostudio formerly ontoedit modeling environment to create and maintain ontologies . ontobroker fast semantic web middleware for inferencing and managing ontologies . it supports the w3c semantic web recommendations owl rdf rdfs sparql rif and objectlogic the successor of f logic . semanticminer ontology based company search . semanticminer for sharepoint microsoft sharepoint server ontology search extension semanticguide expert system for field service smw semantic enterprise wiki for professional users research edit ontorule references edit ontoprise stellt insolvenzantrag ontoprise starts insolvency proceedings in german . econo . 3 may 2012 . retrieved 30 july 2012 . semafora takes over ontoprise gmbh business units . semafora . 6 july 2012 . retrieved 30 july 2012 . michael erdmann 25 july 2012 . smw is dead long live smw . mediawiki users mailing list . retrieved 30 july 2012 . further reading edit use case how ontologies and rules help to advance automobile development w3c semantic web use cases and case studies . june 2008 . on the cusp a global review of the semantic web industry . a global review of the industry and leading vendors . david provost . september 2008 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title ontoprise gmbh & oldid 589171992 categories internet companies of germanycompanies based in baden w rttemberghidden categories cs1 german language sources de navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 4 january 2014 at 18 36 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view