Sandpiper Software (TM) Incorporated develops business semantics technology that supports context-based search, collaboration, and content integration processes. The firm also offers clients terminology standardization, application development, training, and other services. The company's context modeling products work with enterprise application and data integration tools. The programs allow distributed employees, partners, suppliers, and customers to access multiple databases and to share business information. Sandpiper Software systems streamline internal and external enterprise communications processes. The firm's technology simplifies data integration tasks and improves user productivity. The programs handle structured and unstructured data collected from enterprise and Web-based information sources. Sandpiper Software is known for its Medius (R) Knowledge Brokering Suite. The product includes agents and inference systems that automate contextual data capture processes. The company's UML-based Medius Visual Ontology Modeler (TM), or VOM, which integrates with IBM Rational Rose (R). VOM supports the modeling of domain, interface, process, and user ontologies. It includes eXtensible Markup Language (XML) Metadata Interchange (XMI) import/export features. Sandpiper Software is an Object Management Group (OMG) member. It is co-authoring the Ontology Definition Metamodel (ODM) standard. The firm has formed partnerships with Accenture, IBM Rational Software (TM), and eXcelon (TM) Corporation.