London, UK – May 8, 2013: Today, Ontology Systems, the semantic search company for structured enterprise application data, announce their nomination as finalist in the Big Data and Analytics category for the Pipeline COMENT Innovation Awards 2013.

The recognition comes as Ontology is being increasingly adopted by CSPs and enterprise across other industries, such as financial services, for its innovative uses of semantic search across large, complex data estates as a faster, more cost-effective, more resilient and more accurate alternative to traditional data integration approaches.

The award nomination underlines that Ontology’s search-based approach to joining up and querying big data challenges the belief that big data stores can only be unified through lengthy MDM, ETL, BI or DW integration projects.

“We are delighted to receive this recognition from one of the communication industry’s most respected publications,” said Benedict Enweani, CEO of Ontology Systems. “The finalist nomination draws increasing attention to the fact that there is a significant risk that big data stores will come to represent isolated, and, by definition, vast silos. Working closely with the IT departments Ontology helps make it possible for the contents of these stores to participate in the overall data estate of their enterprise.”

Pipeline’s prestigious COMET Innovation Awards acknowledge thought-leaders for advancements in technologies, products and deployments. The winners of the awards will be announced on Monday May 13 in Nice ahead of the TM Forum Management World conference. To find out more about the Pipeline COMET Innovation Awards 2013, please visit www.pipelinepub.com/info/innovation_awards.php