# Define the language your enterprise thinks in

Fluree ITM is the taxonomy and ontology workspace where business users, taxonomists, and domain experts create, govern, and publish the controlled vocabularies that power your knowledge graph, your AI agents, your content tagging, and your data classification.

⊞Customer

CRM team

⊟Client

Sales team

⊜Account

Billing team

⊛顧客

JP localization

preferred label

ex:Customer

broader →

Organization

languages

en · fr · de · ja

related →

Contract

Fluree ITM creates a shared, governed language for your business — preserving each system’s vocabulary while building crosswalks across all of them, so any application finds what it needs, whatever terms it uses. The result: a semantic foundation that brings your knowledge graph, AI agents, and data classification to near-human precision.

## Capabilities

### Build taxonomies, ontologies, and controlled vocabularies visually.
Tree view, whiteboard mode, search-first bulk editing, multilingual labels, and rich semantic relationships make model creation practical for business experts — not just engineers.

### Changes do not go live until they are reviewed, approved, and auditable.
Maintenance workflows, candidate management, stable versus modified versions, lifecycle statuses, and complete audit trails keep the model trustworthy as it evolves.

### Push governed vocabularies into the rest of the platform without rebuilding anything.
Publish your semantic models to Fluree Core, guide extraction in CAM, drive classification in Sense, and expose your enterprise vocabularies through APIs and read-only portals.

## Built for modern taxonomists.

### Full lifecycle modeling for enterprise vocabularies.
Preferred and alternative labels, broader and narrower terms, equivalence mappings, polyhierarchies, and n-ary relationships — all multilingual, all governed. The model reflects how the business actually works instead of forcing everything into a rigid standards-only representation.

### Change the model once; UI, API, and validation adapt automatically.
The semantic model isn’t documentation — it’s the live operating contract. Add a class or property and forms, REST schemas, validation rules, and import templates all reflect the change without a redesign cycle.

### Critical changes flow through approval — not by accident.
Maintenance workflows handle internal edits; candidate workflows triage external proposals. Reviewers compare stable vs. modified states, approve or reject in bulk, and nothing becomes official without a paper trail.

### Validation at entry; analytical checks across the corpus.
Live rules enforce regex patterns, cardinality, required fields, and naming conventions before non-compliant data saves. Periodic reasoning sweeps the whole vocabulary for orphan concepts, circular references, and missing language tags.

### ITM Align maps overlapping terms across teams.
Editorial, product, compliance, and regional teams rarely share one taxonomy — and they shouldn’t have to on day one. Align establishes typed, scored mappings between vocabularies so the enterprise reasons across them as one system.

### Every change is traceable across versions, users, and timestamps.
Multiple vocabulary versions live side-by-side; complete audit trails preserve every create, update, and delete with actor and timestamp. Excel-based diff reports compare any two versions, so ontology change becomes a release process — not an opaque admin task.

### Move vocabularies in and out through guided tools or full API parity.
Import flows cover RDF, SKOS, and Excel with a guided assistant for column-to-property mapping. Bulk software and scheduled scripts handle large repeatable ingestion. Exports generate Excel, PDF, HTML, CSV, RDF, SKOS, OWL, and XML from saved queries.

### Identity and access management
Enterprise IAM support covers OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, SSO/SLO, LDAP and AD federation, and two-factor authentication. Roles can be assigned per workspace so readers, contributors, editors, and administrators all get the right level of access.

### Deployment

#### On-premises  
Deploy in your environment with dedicated infrastructure, controlled access, and architecture designed for enterprise governance needs.

#### Your cloud  
Run fully dockerized in AWS, Azure, or GCP with infrastructure control and enterprise IAM integration.

#### Hosted  
Use a managed deployment model with dedicated environments and no shared tenant data paths.

| Feature | Fluree ITM | Spreadsheets | PoolParty / Semaphore | SharePoint |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Visual no-code editing | Tree, whiteboard, and search-first editing | Manual cell editing | Partial | Basic forms |
| Governance workflows | Maintenance + candidate workflows | Email approvals | Basic approval | Document workflows only |
| Data model-driven architecture | UI, API, and validation derive from model | None | Limited | Form-specific customization |
| Inter-vocabulary alignment | Typed, scored mappings | Manual crosswalks | Available | Not native |
| Version control and diff reports | Native versioning with comparisons | File copies | Version history | Document versions |
| Audit trail | Every action, field, user, and timestamp | Limited | Basic | Document-centric |
| Multilingual support | Language-tagged labels and notes | Manual columns | Yes | Interface localization |
| Standards support | SKOS, RDF, OWL, ISO 25964 + extensions | None | Varies by product | Not semantic-native |
| Knowledge graph integration | Native publish to Fluree Core | Export and rebuild | Usually separate layer | External integration |
| AI pipeline integration | Directly powers CAM and Sense | None | Indirect | Not purpose-built |

## ITM defines the shared language.
Every other product in the Fluree stack — Sense, CAM, Core, Fluree AI — maps to the vocabularies governed in ITM. One source of meaning across the whole platform.

- [Fluree ITM](/content/platform/itm/index.html) defines the language.
- [Sense](/content/platform/sense/index.html) maps structured data into that model.
- [CAM](/content/platform/cam/index.html) extracts knowledge from unstructured content against the same vocabulary.
- [Core](/content/platform/core/index.html) persists the resulting graph as governed enterprise truth.
- [Fluree AI](/content/platform/ai/index.html) turns that connected knowledge into grounded assistants, retrieval experiences, and agent workflows.