NXP Semiconductors
From disparate and inconsistent data to an enterprise data hub
Using AtomGraph technology and services, one of the world’s leading semiconductor producers built a central data hub to unify disparate sources and ensure their product information remains consistent and up-to-date
The Problem
NXP Semiconductors had a classic information silo problem, amplified by the large size of the enterprise and the distributed nature of the business.
With a growing need to publish product information online, NXP faced a major data integration challenge.
Data and content is scattered and duplicated across numerous applications and databases leading to inconsistent information, complex systems and inefficient processes. The outcome is that people are unable to find what they are looking for, or find conflicting information. Common approaches like Data Warehousing, Master Data Management and Service-Oriented Architecture all tackle parts of the problem, but none provide a total solution.
John Walker (Business Analyst at NXP Semiconductors)
Our Approach
The graph-nature of the RDF data model was one of the business drivers for its adoption at NXP, as the product information is highly interconnected.
RDF was used to build a central data hub, a canonical source of high-quality, structured data on 20,000 products. The data was stored in a cloud-hosted RDF triplestore (Dydra), and LinkedDataHub was used to serve Linked Data and webpages directly from RDF data.
Customer Benefits
The benefits of the Linked Data approach are clear: we provide data consumers a single, trustworthy, easy to use source of information about our products. The Linked Data is the API. The benefit to our end-customer is that the information published on our website, data sheets, selection guides and partner websites is consistent and up-to-date.
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