The final versions of these standards are supported by leading semantic Web platform vendors such as Cambridge Semantics, Expert System, Revelytix, Endeca, Lexalytics, Autonomy and Topquadrant.

Major Web search engines, including , and Bing, to prioritize searches and to support W3C standards like RDF.

And enterprise software vendors like Oracle, SAS Institute and IBM are jumping on board, too. Their offerings include , and .

Semantic software uses a variety of techniques to analyze and describe the meaning of data objects and their inter-relationships. These include a dictionary of generic and, often, industry-specific definitions of terms, as well as analysis of grammar and context to resolve language ambiguities such as words with multiple meanings.