Information Workbench Now Available as Virtual Appliance on Amazon EC2

Walldorf, Germany – December 1st, 2010 – fluid Operations is glad to announce that the Information Workbench™ is now freely available in the form of an EC2 virtual appliance. The Information Workbench™ is a platform for Linked Data application development, pursuing the goal to lower the entry barrier into the world of Linked Data and to leverage its benefits. By providing a semantic metadata management layer, it can integrate heterogeneous data sources and correlate and manage the data residing within.

Having the Information Workbench™ available as EC2 virtual appliance considerably lowers the effort in building Linked Data applications: the EC2 image can be instantiated within minutes, thus avoiding investments in IT infrastructure and saving time in setting up own servers. All you need to do is to instantiate the EC2 image of the Information Workbench™ virtual appliance. The resulting instance is a complete, ready-to-use Information Workbench™ installation that is fully customizable and globally accessible in the Web. New AWS users can also benefit from Amazon’s free usage tier for micro instances and run their own Information Workbench™ for free for one year!

Having installed the image, users can load their own data into the Information Workbench™, correlate it with publicly available Linked Open Data, and customize the system layout and behavior – an easy way to build Linked Data applications! Once the data is available, the Information Workbench allows for visual exploration of content elements based on rich metadata, collaborative knowledge acquisition and augmentation through semantic annotation, advanced search, analytics and reporting, as well as self-service development based on W3C standards. More information on the platform is available on the Information Workbench™ project page.

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, fluid Operations™ (fluidOps) is the provider of an innovative cloud management platform for complex, virtualized and physical enterprise application environments. This includes the creation of a flexible cloud infrastructure, the rapid provisioning of enterprise application landscapes through a self-service portal as Landscape as a Service (LaaS)™, as well as the automated handling of the daily operations of a private or public eCloud. -Underlining its profile as an innovative company leveraging semantic technologies to solve the complex data integration tasks that arise in today’s heterogeneous system landscapes, and to benefit from novel, unifying data interaction paradigms, fluid Operations™ has been actively engaged in leading international conferences, such as the International Semantic Web Conference 2010 in Shanghai. There the company acted as a sponsor and presented its own results in several research talks. Based on the innovative semantic technologies, fluid Operations™ has been named “Gartner Cool Vendor in the SAP Ecosystem” for 2010 and a market game-changer. For more information about fluidOps and its fine products please visit www.fluidOps.com.

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