There are at least two major reasons, why you may want to shy away from using many of the popular services for text analysis and annotation in an enterprise setting. Firstly, their nature as a service which forces you to send content to a third party, and secondly, their restricted use of other target datasets to suggest links to named entities available in public glossaries such as wikipedia. In contrast Apache Stanbol (incubating) provides you with the freedom to work within your own IT environment and your own business terminology as you see fit. Continue Reading →