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- Kingsley Idehen: Founder, President, and CEOPast Role: Unisys, Technical Specialist
- Paul Nieuwdorp: VP Research and Development
OpenLink Software Inc. is a pioneering software company founded in 1992, with joint headquarters in Needham, Massachusetts, USA, and Croydon, United Kingdom. Renowned for decades of innovation, OpenLink delivers standards-based solutions for data access, integration, and management—now extended to include cutting-edge platforms for AI agents and
agentic workflows.
**Product Portfolio**
OpenLink Software offers a vertically integrated stack of technologies that bridges conventional database systems, semantic technologies, and AI-driven automation:
• OpenLink AI Layer (OPAL): A powerful middleware platform for building and orchestrating AI agents that operate over loosely coupled data spaces—including relational databases, knowledge graphs, and file systems—via open standards like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocols.
• Virtuoso Universal Server: A high-performance, multi-model DBMS that functions as a relational database, RDF store, virtual database engine, and HTTP/WebDAV application server. Available in open-source and commercial editions, Virtuoso is the foundation for enterprise knowledge graphs and Linked Data infrastructure.
• Universal Data Access (UDA) Suite: A robust collection of high-performance drivers and connectors (ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLE DB, and XMLA) for seamless data access across all major DBMS platforms, featuring fine-grained attribute-based access controls for security and governance.
• OpenLink Structured Data Sniffer (OSDS): A browser extension that transforms conventional web pages into semantic data sources—enabling read-write interaction with structured data via embedded RDF and Linked Data principles.
• YouID: A decentralized digital identity toolkit that gives users ownership and control over their online identity, built on WebID and verifiable credentials. Available as a browser extension, mobile app, and hosted service.
• URIBurner Service: A live web-based service that crawls, extracts, and transforms content into RDF-based knowledge graphs using the Sponger middleware engine. It supports content negotiation and delivers data in various RDF serialization formats.
**Core Competencies & Specialties**
• Data Access & Virtualization: ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET, OLE DB, Entity Frameworks
• Multi-Model & DBMS (Relational Tables & Entity Relationship Graphs): SQL, RDF, SPARQL, GraphQL, NoSQL
• Knowledge Graphs, Semantic Web, & Linked Data: RDF based structured data management and deployment
• AI & Agentic Automation: AI Agents, Agentic Workflows, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent-2-Agent (A2A) Protocol, GraphRAG, RAG
• Web services Patterns & Protocols: REST and OpenAPI
• Enterprise Data Fabric: Data Integration, Master Data Management (MDM), Data Spaces
• Developer & End-User Tools: Browser extensions, User-controlled Identity management (a/k/a Self Sovereign Identity Management)