The Evolution and Future of Graph Technology: Intelligent Systems
By Jocelyn Hoppa
December 14, 2018|Reading time: 5 minutes
The field of graph technology has developed rapidly in recent years. From the beginnings of the Neo4j graph database – released almost nine years ago in version 1.0 – up to current the latest version (and also the developments of… Read more →
Keywords: ai • big data solution • GQL • graph database • graph query language • graph technology • Intelligent Systems • ML • neo4j • nlp • sql
It’s High Time Neo4j Had a CFO – Here’s Who We Chose [Interview]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 13, 2018|Reading time: 8 minutes
Just yesterday, I got to announce the addition of Denise Persson – CMO at Snowflake – to the Neo4j Board of Directors. Today, I get to announce another incredibly important executive appointment: Mike Asher has joined Neo4j as our inaugural… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • Amazon • CFO • Connected Data • Graph Databases • graph technology • Microsoft • Mike Asher • neo4j • Silicon Valley
Please Welcome Denise Persson – CMO at Snowflake – to the Neo4j Board [Interview]
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
December 11, 2018|Reading time: 8 minutes
It is my pleasure to introduce the newest member of the Neo4j Board of Directors: Denise Persson. Denise is the Chief Marketing Officer at Snowflake Computing, one of the hottest companies in the data space – and like Neo4j, also… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • Connected Data • Denise Persson • Graph Data • graph database • graph technology • neo4j • Neo4j board • Silicon Valley • Snowflake
Graph Databases for Beginners: Other Graph Technologies
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
|Reading time: 7 minutes
Back in the day (when Prussia was still a thing), Königsberg must have been a really boring place. That’s because the definition of fun in Königsberg was to walk around the city’s seven bridges and find a path that only… Read more →
Keywords: data model • graph database • graph technology • hypergraph • native graph database • nosql • nosql database • property graph • RDF • Triple Store
How to Exploit the 6 Relationships of Retail to Delight Your Customers [Infographic]
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 30, 2018|Reading time: 1 minute
Retail opportunities are as big and dynamic as the industry has ever seen, and yet, knowing what to do or how to attack said opportunities is a bit more difficult to ascertain. U.S. retail sales per year are in the… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • Graph Databases • graph technology • Retail • retail competitive advantage • retail opportunities
#GraphCast: Intro to the APOC Utility Library
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 25, 2018|Reading time: 1 minute
Welcome to this week’s #GraphCast – our new series featuring what you might have missed on the Neo4j YouTube channel. Last week, our Managing Editor, Jocelyn Hoppa, unearthed the Graph Karaoke series (by the intrepid Rik Van Bruggen) from the… Read more →
Keywords: APOC • cypher • graph database • graph technology • GraphCast • neo4j • Neo4j Community • user-defined functions • user-defined procedures
Flexible Data Pipelines: 5-Minute Interview with Pat Patterson, Technical Director, StreamSets
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 23, 2018|Reading time: 2 minutes
“With Neo4j, we can run analyses across relationships. These analyses are not feasible or even possible when the data is spread out among different systems,” said Pat Patterson, Technical Director, StreamSets. In this week’s five-minute interview, we discuss how StreamSets… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • Big Data • data pipelines • etl • graph technology • graphconnect • Master Data Management • neo4j • relational database • streaming data
Graph Algorithms in Neo4j: Neo4j Graph Analytics
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 19, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
At a fundamental level, a native graph platform is required to make it easy to express relationships across many types of data elements. To succeed with connected data applications, you need to traverse these connections at speed, regardless of how… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • data scientists • graph algorithms • Graph Analytics • graph platform • graph technology • native graph platform • neo4j • pathfinding • solution developers
Fraud Detection Using Graph Technology
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 16, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
Graph technology refers to the storage, management and querying of data graphical representation. Here, your indices become vertices and your relationships are converted into edges. Through analysis of the fine-grained relationships, by using graph analysis, you can find out oddities… Read more →
Keywords: Connected Data • data analysis • data modeling • fraud detection • graph algorithms • graph database • graph technology • machine learning • money laundering • social media networks
Simplicity Wins: We’re Shifting to an Open Core Licensing Model for Neo4j Enterprise Edition
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 15, 2018|Reading time: 2 minutes
TL;DR: Starting with Neo4j 3.5, Enterprise Edition source code will no longer be published to the open source commons, including future versions. This does not impact Neo4j Community Edition. We will continue to deliver the world’s best and most comprehensive… Read more →
Keywords: cypher • graph algorithms • graph database • graph technology • neo4j • Neo4j Community • Neo4j Desktop • Neo4j Graph Platform • open core • open source
Graph Algorithms in Neo4j: Graph Technology & AI Applications
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 12, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
Graph technologies are the scaffolding for building intelligent applications, enabling more accurate predictions and faster decisions. In fact, graphs are underpinning a wide variety of artificial intelligence (AI) use cases. This blog series is designed to help you better leverage… Read more →
Keywords: ai • artificial intelligence • graph algorithms • Graph Analytics • graph platform • graph technology • Graph Visualizations • Knowledge Graph • machine learning • PageRank
#GraphCast: Graph Karaoke Featuring The Knife’s “Heartbeat”
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 11, 2018|Reading time: 1 minute
Welcome to our new biweekly Sunday series, #GraphCast, which aims to unearth digestible, notable and just plain fun Neo4j YouTube videos (of which there are a lot). Whether we focus on some of our most popular videos or highlight a… Read more →
Keywords: graph karaoke • graph technology • GraphCast • neo4j
New Features, Now: 5-Minute Interview with Mark Hashimoto, Senior Director of Engineering, Digital Home at Comcast
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 9, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
“One of the most surprising things I’ve seen with Neo4j is the speed at which we’re able to innovate and deliver features to our customers,” said Mark Hashimoto, Senior Director of Engineering, Digital Home at Comcast. In this week’s five-minute… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • Comcast • data fabric • digital home • graph data model • Graph Databases • graph technology • graphconnect • IoT • Universal Studios • XFINITY
How Real-Time Recommendations Increase Revenues, Optimize Margins and Delight Customers [Infographic]
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 8, 2018|Reading time: 1 minute
“You may also like” sounds simple, but there’s a lot happening behind the scenes. Real-time recommendations work best when they take into account both the user’s needs (what is of interest to them) and your business strategy (items you need… Read more →
Keywords: business rules • collaborative filtering • financial services • government services • graph platform • graph technology • Healthcare • knowledge-based filtering • neo4j • real-time recommendations
How to Know What You Know:
5-Minute Interview with Dr. Alessandro Negro, Chief Scientist at GraphAware
By Jocelyn Hoppa
November 2, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
“I want to know what I know. That describes what knowledge graphs do for companies,” said Dr. Alessandro Negro, Chief Scientist at GraphAware. In this week’s five-minute interview, we discuss how GraphAware uses natural language processing to help companies gain… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • data model • fraud detection • graph algorithms • graph technology • Knowledge Graph • machine learning • natural language processing • Recommendation Engine • textual data
We Just Closed the Largest Single Investment in the Graph Space. Now What?
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
November 1, 2018|Reading time: 5 minutes
I’m thrilled to announce that Neo4j has just closed $80 million in a series E funding round. We are happy to welcome One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital to the graph of Neo4j funders. I’d also like to… Read more →
Keywords: ai • artificial intelligence • Connected Data • fraud detection • graph database • graph technology • machine learning • ML • neo4j • Recommendation Engine
If You Build It They Will Come: Starting a GraphDB Meetup Where There Is None
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 30, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
About seven years ago, I came across Neo4j while trying to find a way to visually represent stored information and make connections like the human brain does. At the time, I only really needed to build an awesome recommendation engine… Read more →
Keywords: DataPhilly • Graph Databases • graph technology • GraphDB meetup • neo4j • nosql
5 Noteworthy Use Cases of Graph Technology and Graph Analytics
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 23, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
When discussions about any technological concept begin to trend in online media and among business stakeholders, it is only natural to wonder whether it is all hype or whether the technology actually solves any real business problems. Gartner’s well-publicized hype… Read more →
Keywords: fraud detection • Graph Analytics • graph database • graph technology • Graph Theory • identity access management • machine learning • regulatory compliance • Relational Databases • supply chain
Chip Design on Graphs: 5-Minute Interview with Chuck Calio, Offering Manager, IBM PowerAI
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 19, 2018|Reading time: 3 minutes
We use Neo4j to design our next-generation Power chips, said Chuck Calio, Offering Manager IBM PowerAI at IBM. The future of graph technology is in AI, but it’s not the only use case. From designing hardware (naturally a graph) to… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • ai • dynamic pricing • graph algorithms • graph database • graph technology • machine learning • Master Data Management • nosql • Recommendation Engine
Enterprise AI for IT Ops: 5-Minute Interview with Clayton Ching, Global Head of Customer Success at Digitate
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 12, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
“I believe everyone in the IT ops space is going to have to implement graph data a lot sooner than they think,” said Clayton Ching, Global Head of Customer Success at Digitate. IT operations is complex, with thousands of systems… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • ai • enterprise applications • graph database • graph technology • it infrastructure • IT ops • nosql • Relational Databases • SAP ERP
Graph Databases for Beginners: Graph Search Algorithm Basics
By Joy Chao
October 10, 2018|Reading time: 8 minutes
When he wasn’t busy shelving books, collecting overdue fines and shushing children (we can only presume) in the library at the House of Wisdom, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi was also keeping up a few other side projects: inventing algebra, popularizing… Read more →
Keywords: A-star algorithm • best-first search • breadth-first search • depth-first search • Dijkstra's algorithm • graph algorithms • Graph Search • graph search algorithm • graph technology • Graph Theory
Graphs Are Game-Changing for Cybersecurity: 5-Minute Interview with Eric Spiegelberg, Senior Consultant at GraphAware
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 5, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
“Cyber threat intelligence is high volume, unstructured and highly related. That last attribute makes it great for graphs,” said Eric Spiegelberg, Senior Consultant at GraphAware. In this week’s five-minute interview (conducted at GraphConnect New York), we discuss GraphAware’s work on… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • cyber threat • cybersecurity • graph database • graph technology • GraphAware • graphconnect • natural language processing • nlp • Panama Papers
Effective Internal Risk Models for FRTB Compliance: Modern Graph Technology Is the Answer
By Jocelyn Hoppa
October 1, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
Relational database technology can’t handle what is coming in banking and risk modeling. By the 2020s, Accenture predicts current banking business models will be swept away by a tide of ever-evolving technology and other rapidly occurring changes. The right foundation… Read more →
Keywords: bank regulations • BCBS • data connections • data lineage • data silos • financial services • frtb compliance • graph database • graph technology • risk • risk model
Visualizing Enterprise Architecture: 5-Minute Interview with Jessica Dembe & Patrick Elder, Blackstone Technology Group
By Jocelyn Hoppa
September 28, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
“Native visualization was something that stood out to us, and we had struggled trying to do the same thing with other tools,” said Patrick Elder, Product Architect at Blackstone Technology Group. Enterprise architecture connects numerous IT assets using information from… Read more →
Keywords: 5-minute interview • data model • enterprise architecture • federal government • graph technology • graphconnect • native visualization • natural language processing • rdbms • SharePoint
ICYMI: (Mostly) Everything Important that Happened at GraphConnect 2018
By Bryce Merkl Sasaki
September 25, 2018|Reading time: 4 minutes
Unless you live under a graph database rock, then you know that the biggest graph technology event of the year – GraphConnect 2018 – happened last week, and it was wondrous to behold. From September 20-22, Neo4j customers, partners, celebrities,… Read more →
Keywords: artificial intelligence • Connected Data • graph database • graph platform • graph technology • graphconnect • Graphs4Good • Hilary Mason • machine learning • Neo4j 3.5
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