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Frank Guerino is the CEO and Founder of TraverseIT, the world’s first IT Utility Company, which focuses on providing enterprises with higher order Data, Information and Knowledge Management solutions, right through the internet, using the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business paradigm.
Before founding TraverseIT, Mr. Guerino led global Software Systems Engineering and Architecture for Merrill Lynch’s Asset Management Division (MLIM), where he was responsible for the strategy associated with owning, deploying, operating and integrating critical software systems, their infrastructures and their related businesses. His background includes over ten years of providing advanced and highly distributed Data, Information Management and Knowledge Management solutions for some of the largest global financial firms in the world, including such well known brands as Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter. He has architected solutions for both Sell Side and Buy Side businesses and has been involved in front office, middle office, back office, and core technology solutions for a variety of these financial firms.
Before his time in the financial sector, Mr. Guerino successfully created an independent consulting firm that focused on providing software consulting services in the areas of data, information and knowledge management. He also spent over ten years in the Semiconductor industry, where he was responsible for providing bleeding edge designs, tools, technologies, processes, and consulting services to the most recognized Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design and manufacturing firms, in the world. While in this field, his specialization was in highly distributed and parallel computing and communications systems that dealt with large volumes of transactional data and information. Mr. Guerino is globally acknowledged as an expert in areas including high-volume & highly distributed data, information and knowledge environments… Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business models… code and design synthesis solutions… and enterprise IT Operations (including ITIL/ITSMF). He proudly holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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Semantic-based Frameworks for Enterprise Content and Knowledge Management
Frank Guerino, TraverseIT
The Semantic Web, as envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee who invented the first World Wide Web, is a place where machines can read and exploit web-based content, very much the same way humans do. The vision was one where machines could leverage the web and all its resources as independent data sources and processing systems that would facilitate the creation, processing and understanding of data, information and even knowledge, allowing such machines to interact with each other in a more “human-like” manner.
While society and science still have a very long way to go in order to fulfill such a vision, the Semantic Web is finding its legs in things like the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model, Web 2.0 traits, and Semantic Web (Web 3.0) standards, such as the Resource Descriptive Framework (RDF) and the Web Ontology Language (WOL/a.k.a. OWL). As a result, enterprises around the world are wrestling with ways to exploit such concepts for better ways to manage their critical operational data, information and knowledge. TraverseIT, is one of those companies.
Initial efforts have yielded new and exciting collaboration solutions, such as Wikis and Blogs that are rapidly making a name for themselves. However, enterprises are quickly finding that such solutions lack the “enterprise class” muscle that is truly needed to handle large volumes of “functional” data, information and knowledge that is used to run and manage day-to-day operations. As a result, enterprises yearn for a solution where operational content can be more effectively utilized and exploited to create a more competitive and fluid environment.
The problems most enterprises are facing today revolve around the fact that a tremendous amount of their critical operational data, information and knowledge has been locked up and is being held hostage in traditional, silo-ed software systems. Sadly, such traditional systems foster things like political kingdoms and anti-sharing cultures. Over time, these solutions have become an expensive burden on their enterprises, financially, emotionally and psychologically, as owning, managing and integrating them has become a challenge that goes far beyond the core competency of most enterprises, themselves.
As part of this presentation, Frank Guerino, the CEO and Founder of TraverseIT, will share their quest for the ultimate Enterprise Data, Information and Knowledge Management solution. The discussion will show how TraverseIT has leveraged Semantic Web concepts to step forward and provide enterprises with radically new and visionary way of dealing with their critical operational content… one that is, of all things, “Knowledge Centric”.
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