1) The document discusses Linked Data as a service and the Information Workbench platform for providing data as a service. 2) The Information Workbench enables semantic integration and federation of private and public data sources through a virtualization layer and provides self-service data discovery, exploration and analytics tools. 3) It describes a cloud-based architecture where the Information Workbench is deployed as a semantic data integration and analytics platform as a service (PaaS).