The Power of Laces For Collaborating 

Collaboration is essential for achieving success, as no company, team, or professional can operate in isolation. We are all part of networks with stakeholders—such as partners, suppliers, contractors, clients, and regulators—each contributing to shared goals.

Efficient collaboration is especially important in industries like infrastructure, energy, shipbuilding, and aviation, where projects are large, complex, or often involve global operations. Similarly, research relies on collaboration to ensure information can be shared worldwide, driving innovation and progress. By enabling stakeholders in these industries to manage shared data effectively, foster stronger cooperation, and exchange results across broader communities, collaboration becomes a cornerstone of success.

The benefits of working together in smarter, more innovative ways are significant. Businesses can boost productivity, reach new customers, develop new solutions, and accomplish shared objectives more effectively. 

The Need for Collaborating and Data Sharing

In order for people to collaborate, they need to be able to understand each other. In today’s digital world, that understanding often depends on the ability to share data between systems. However, while people can understand each other easily, their software systems often cannot. This disconnect creates challenges when trying to collaborate effectively across teams, departments, and organizations.

Businesses often share digital files such as documents and spreadsheets, but these require to be opened and read by a human being for interpretation. But if we want digitization to help us save time and money, meaning our software actively helps us, the data needs to be structured for computers to interpret. This means data must reside in databases in formats that allow for seamless integration and automation. Unfortunately, many organizations face barriers such as data silos, incompatible systems, and complex integrations, which hinder this level of collaboration. 

Effective collaboration, however, requires more than simply sharing structured data. It demands intelligent sharing, where the data itself is enriched with meaning (semantics). This enables emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence to interpret and utilize the data effectively. Helping organizations to succeed in their digital transformation efforts. 

This is where Linked Data becomes transformative. By interlinking structured data, Linked Data makes it accessible and usable as a coherent network. Building on open standards designed by the W3C. Linked Data combined with Semantics allows both humans and machines to interpret, (re)use, and share information seamlessly across multiple applications, platforms, and organizations.

Laces addresses these challenges with a powerful Data platform, built on the principles of Linked Data and the Semantic web, to bridge this gap. With Laces, your information is stored securely in the cloud accessible to authorized users anytime, anywhere. Unlike traditional databases, Laces organizes data in semantic graphs, creating a meaningful and interconnected virtual network. This approach eliminates the constraints of inward-focused IT systems, enabling organizations to share data seamlessly and integrate with external sources.

With Laces, your data becomes more than just stored information—it becomes an enabler of collaboration and innovation.

Why Laces for Collaboration

Laces does for structured data what Google Suite does for slides and spreadsheets. It allows you to disseminate the information so that everyone can participate and work on shared data. 

Traditional data is often siloed within files or databases, making it hard to share or work on together. Even exchanging or integrating data frequently requires IT intervention, if it’s even possible.

With Laces, every professional, team, or company can decide who has access to the data and has its own online environment to link its data to others to create an interrelated data fabric. This coherent network serves as a single source of truth. Here’s why it stands out:

• Flexibility in sharing: Whether you’re a researcher disseminating findings, a supplier collaborating with clients, or an information architect designing models for developers. Laces ensures your data is linked, interoperable, and easy to share.

• Smarter integrations: Connect with third-party software through a universal API, use pre-built apps, or even be as free as to (have someone) build your own new apps on top of Laces.

• Future-proof data management: With Linked Data and Semantic Web technologies, Laces prepares your organization for AI, Industry 4.0, and beyond.

Who benefits from Laces

So, we have learned that Laces is for everyone who wants to collaborate using shared data. But let’s explain it in the real-life context of a researcher, the interaction between a client and supplier, or how an information architect can collaborate with a developer. 

• Researchers: Share your gathered information worldwide so others can participate in managing common data, fostering cooperation, and creating a broader community of shared results.

• Suppliers and Clients: Exchange project information to ensure it’s reusable across your software applications. This is especially valuable in complex value chains, where every handover typically leads to data waste or high IT spending.

• Information Architects and Developers: Share and use information models for application development. By leveraging Linked Data, you can build interoperable applications. Ultimately saving time and money through code generation while offering clients seamless integration.

Get the Message Across

Laces transforms how you manage enterprise content, master data, and anything else you need to get across to others. By leveraging open-standard Linked Data, Laces helps you move beyond siloed systems, enabling more intelligent data sharing.

Whether you integrate your supply chain or simply reuse knowledge within your organization, Laces creates a flexible, interconnected web of information. This paradigm shift from traditional, one-size-fits-all IT solutions empowers your organization to become truly data-driven, agile, and cost-effective.

Forget the limitations of colossal database systems. With Laces, you can seamlessly share and connect information across your ecosystem, transforming your software landscape into an agile, collaborative network.

Are you interested in learning how Laces can optimize your data management? Or do you have any questions about this approach? Feel free to book a meeting with one of our experts.