  The next leap on the internet has already started as Semantic Web. At its
core, Semantic Web transforms the document oriented web to a data oriented web
enriched with semantics embedded as metadata. This change in perspective
towards the web offers numerous benefits for vast amount of data intensive
industries that are bound to the web and its related applications. The
industries are diverse as they range from Oil & Gas exploration to the
investigative journalism, and everything in between. This paper discusses eight
different industries which currently reap the benefits of Semantic Web. The
paper also offers a future outlook into Semantic Web applications and discusses
the areas in which Semantic Web would play a key role in the future.
