The eBay App for Google Assistant: Graph-Powered Conversational Commerce
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 22, 2018 6 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Ajinkya Kale and Anuj Vatsa at GraphConnect New York in October 2017. Presentation Summary The eBay App for Google Assistant is a chatbot powered by knowledge graphs that supports conversational commerce. In creating… Read more →
Keywords: ai • docker • eBay ShopBot • google cloud platform • graphconnect • knowledge graphs • Kubernetes • machine learning • natural language understanding • spark
Congrats to Cerved and LARUS for Winning the Big Data Analytics Award from Digital360
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 3, 2018 3 mins read
On July 2018, Cerved – a Neo4j customer – has been awarded with the Big Data Analytics prize, by a panel of 50 CIOs working for the most important Italian companies, at the Digital360 Awards 2018, thanks to its Graph4you… Read more →
Keywords: big data analytics • cerved • data connections • Digital360 Awards • financial services • graph algoritms • Graph Databases • graph technology • Graph4you • Larus
Democratizing Data Discovery at Airbnb
By Jocelyn Hoppa
August 1, 2018 19 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by John Bodley and Chris Williams at GraphConnect Europe in May 2017. Presentation Summary Airbnb, the online marketplace and hospitality service for people to lease or rent short-term lodging, generates many data points, which… Read more →
Keywords: Airbnb • data discovery • data model • elasticsearch • graph database • graphconnect • python • siloed data • tableau • tribal knowledge
Telia Zone: Scaling Neo4j to Millions of Homes with Kubernetes
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 25, 2018 15 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Rickard Damm and Lars Ericsson at GraphConnect Europe in May 2017. Presentation Summary Telia Zone is the Telia company’s router, which is used in approximately one million homes in Sweden. Telia uses Neo4j… Read more →
Keywords: ADSL • APIs • Causal Clustering • connected home • data model • graphconnect • Kubernetes • smart phone home platform • telecommunications • Telia Zone
Graph Databases for Beginners: The Basics of Data Modeling
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
July 24, 2018 9 mins read
For six-ish months of my life, I was a database developer. Starting out, the first thing I learned was data modeling. Our team was using a relational database (RDBMS), specifically MySQL (we later switched to Postgres). Like a lot of… Read more →
Keywords: data model • data modeling • graph data model • graph database • graph technology • MySQL • Postgres • rdbms • relational data model • relational database
The Next Generation of Service Assurance: Differentiating Your Solution
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 23, 2018 6 mins read
Successful companies are embracing next-generation service assurance that leverages a comprehensive, real-time view of services and infrastructure with an eye on end-user experiences, new service creation and predictive modeling. But to compete in today’s market, communication service providers need a… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • data model • Data Relationships • graph database • graph platform • graph technology • Master Data Management • relational database • service assurance solutions • telecommunications
Don’t Choose One Database… Choose Them All!
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 19, 2018 16 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Dave da Silva at GraphConnect Europe in May 2017. Presentation Summary Capgemini, a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing services, believes that using multiple databases improves your ability to unlock the business… Read more →
Keywords: APIs • cypher • data analysis • database technology • graph database • graphconnect • machine learning • nosql • relational database • SQL databases
Neo4j Launches Commercial Kubernetes Application on Google Cloud Platform Marketplace
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
July 18, 2018 2 mins read
On behalf of the Neo4j team, I am happy to announce that today we are introducing the availability of the Neo4j Graph Platform within a commercial Kubernetes application to all users of the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace. This new offering… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • GCP Marketplace • Google Cloud • google cloud platform • Google Cloud Platform Marketplace • Google Kubernetes Engine • graph technology • Knowledge Graph • Kubernetes • neo4j
The Next Generation of Service Assurance:
Your Network Is a Graph
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 16, 2018 3 mins read
Service complexity is exploding. Communication Service Providers (CSPs) need a complete view of their network and its myriad interdependencies to drive real-time decisions and predict the impact of changes on the user experience. A native graph approach makes sense of… Read more →
Keywords: communication service providers • graph data model • graph database • graph platform • IT network operators • native graph • optimizing network services • rdbms • service assurance • telecommunications
The Next Generation of Service Assurance:
The Imperative to Advance
By Jocelyn Hoppa
July 9, 2018 3 mins read
Service assurance is the way organizations optimize various services offered over networks (from phone calls and email to video and applications) to deliver a better end-user experience. For decades, service assurance practices used fragmented views of the network and services… Read more →
Keywords: graph database • native graph technology • network operations • network services • predictive modeling • rdbms • service assurance • software-defined networks • telecommunications • virtualization
Connecting the Tech Stack: 5-Minute Interview with Tim Ward, CEO at CluedIn
By Jocelyn Hoppa
June 29, 2018 6 mins read
“Connected data is always more interesting than disconnected data, especially when you’re wanting to do something like we do,” said Tim Ward, CEO at CluedIn. For Tim, it’s all about flexibility, scalability and resilience. As the CEO (and an engineer)… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • Connected Data • Graph Databases • graph model • graph technology • graphconnect • machine learning • nosql • polyglot persistence • technology stack
The ROI on Connected Data:
The Overlooked Value of Context for Business Insights [+ Airbnb Case Study]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
June 11, 2018 4 mins read
Your data is inherently valuable, but until you connect it, that value is largely hidden. Those data relationships give your applications an integrated view that powers real-time, higher-order insights traditional technology cannot deliver. In this series, we’ll examine how investments… Read more →
Keywords: Airbnb • Apache Hive • Connected Data • data discovery • data model • digital transformation • elasticsearch • master data • PageRank • python
GDPR Compliance: The Challenges and Problems with Personal Data
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 26, 2018 4 mins read
European Union regulators are dead serious about protecting the privacy of their citizens’ personal data. The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) that take effect on 25 May 2018 apply to all EU and foreign organizations handling personal data of EU… Read more →
Keywords: data lineage • data management • data privacy • data privacy regulations • GDPR Compliance • GDPR regulations • GDPR requirements • graph database • graph technology • personal data
DevOps on Graphs:
The 5-Minute Interview with Ashley Sun, Software Engineer at LendingClub
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 23, 2018 3 mins read
“Basically, anything you can think of in your infrastructure, whether it’s GitHub, Jenkins, AWS, load balancers, Cisco UCS, vCenter – it’s all in our graph database,” said Ashley Sun, Software Engineer at LendingClub. DevOps at LendingClub is no easy feat:… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • AWS • Cisco UCS • cloud orchestration • deployment automation • DevOps • graphconnect • microservices • release automation • sql
Retail & Neo4j: Network & IT Management for Retailers
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
February 12, 2018 3 mins read
In order to re-invent the value chain from linear to circular and highly connected, retailers need to modernize their IT infrastructure rapidly and cost-effectively. In addition, web-based retailers must find a way to handle scale and sophistication to remain competitive.… Read more →
Keywords: Active Directory • bloodhound • CMDB • configuration management database • graph technology • index free adjacency • it infrastructure • IT Management • it operations • Retail
Cybersecurity & Graph Technology: An Excellent Fit
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
October 19, 2017 5 mins read
Cybersecurity We are becoming increasingly dependent on technology. Yet, without diligent attention paid to cybersecurity, technology is vulnerable to unauthorized access, change or even destruction. These vulnerabilities pose threats to our individual and collective safety, security and human and economic… Read more →
Keywords: Big Data • Connected Data • cyber threat intelligence • cybersecurity • Equifax • financial data • graph technology • GraphAware • graphconnect • mitre
Neo4j Sandbox Now Supports Neo4j 3.2, Sharing, Google Spreadsheets & More!
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
July 28, 2017 4 mins read
When we announced the new Neo4j Sandbox back in March, we enabled developers to learn Neo4j while exploring data and interactive guides for four use cases: Recommendations Engines, TrumpWorld, US Congress (Legis-Graph) and Twitter analysis. We’ve seen lots of developers… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • Google Spreadsheets • Load CSV • Neo4j Browser • Neo4j sandbox • neo4j training • Panama Papers • TrumpWorld • twitter
Financial Services & Neo4j: Identity & Access Management
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
July 24, 2017 4 mins read
Within the IT organization of any financial services enterprise, identity and entitlements management must be managed to minimize risk. Over time, the centralized entitlements structure – whether represented in Active Directory or an LDAP directory – grows in such a… Read more →
Keywords: access management • Active Directory • Connected Data • financial services • fraud prevention • identity and access management • identity management • Information Security • LDAP directory • permissions management
Financial Services & Neo4j: Network & IT Infrastructure Monitoring
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
July 10, 2017 4 mins read
Discovering, capturing and making sense of complex interdependencies is central to managing IT infrastructure more effectively, and it is also a critical part of running the businesses IT serves. Whether it’s optimizing a network or an application infrastructure, managing change… Read more →
Keywords: dependency management • financial services • GDPR • it infrastructure • IT infrastructure monitoring • microservices • network infrastructure • Network Monitoring • RBS • Royal Bank of Scotland
The Emergence of the Enterprise DataFabric
By Rachel Howard
June 1, 2017 9 mins read
Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Mark Kvamme and Clark Richey at GraphConnect San Francisco in October 2016. Presentation Summary Enterprises are faced with a variety of challenges when it comes to managing data, largely due to the disparate… Read more →
Keywords: Big Data • cypher • data science • DataFabric • graph technology • graphconnect • nosql • r • RDF • relational database
The 5-Minute Interview: David Brian Ward, CEO & Founder, Telegraph Hill Software
By Rachel Howard
May 19, 2017 3 mins read
“As with any kind of software, the best for the job is one whose function matches your data structures,” said David Brian Ward, CEO and Founder of Telegraph Hill Software. David and his team were searching for a tool that… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • cloud infrastructure • cypher • DevOps • key value store • product development • relational database • SaaS • software-as-a-service • sql
Advantages of a Graph-Based Metadata Repository [Community Post]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
May 4, 2017 5 mins read
[As community content, this post reflects the views and opinions of the particular author and does not necessarily reflect the official stance of Neo4j.] Many higher education institutions, like the University of Washington (UW), are implementing large, complex, Software-as-a-Service solutions… Read more →
Keywords: data governance • data integration • data lineage • human capital management • impact analysis • metadata management • metadata repository • source-to-target mapping • system migration • University of Washington
Graph-Based Enterprise Architecture Management
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 28, 2017 4 mins read
Today, enterprise architects are required to deliver insights quickly and make sense of large amounts of enterprise data (business knowledge, application information, technology assets, etc.). In this process, understanding and modeling interdependencies between entities is key. With relationships at the… Read more →
Keywords: CMDB • enterprise architect • enterprise architecture • enterprise architecture framework • graph visualization • impact analysis • Linkurious • network infrastructure • Network Management • relational database
Custom Security Plugins & User-Defined Procedures in Neo4j Enterprise Edition [Security Series, Part 5]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 24, 2017 4 mins read
When it comes to graph database security, it’s essential that you have the flexibility to customize every factor of authentication and authorization for your specific deployment. After all, no architecture or organization is the same, so you need the versatility… Read more →
Keywords: access control • Active Directory • authentication plugin • authorization plugin • database security • federated authentication • LDAP connector • role-based authorization • security plugin • user-defined procedures
Query Management & Security Event Logging in Neo4j Enterprise [Security Series, Part 4]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
April 17, 2017 3 mins read
No matter the size or scope of your graph database, it’s vital to maintain secure control of your data and to keep a record of security events. Starting in Neo4j 3.1 and all future releases, users will have increased control… Read more →
Keywords: access control • database security • graph database • Neo4j Browser • Neo4j Enterprise Edition • query management • security event log • security event logging • system procedures • user management