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With the hype of graph databases and knowledge graphs, a common (mis)practice is to quickly migrate your existing siloed data into a graph database. But be careful! You may just be bringing the complexity of your silos into the graph. Join Tim Gasper, Juan Sequeda and guest Jans Aasman from Franz Inc, the makers of … Continue reading Catalog and Cocktails – Fashion Week… but for data →

Essilor, part of the EssilorLuxottica SA group (which sells global brands such as Ray-Ban, Oakley and Varilux among many others), is a French-based vertically integrated, multinational ophthalmic optics company and the world leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of lenses to correct or protect eyesight. Including sundries, Essilor carries hundreds of thousands of stock … Continue reading Essilor’s Knowledge Graph for Global Supply Chain Risk Management →

Gartner released its 2021 Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence. Knowledge Graphs continue toward the peak. Read the press release – https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2021-09-07-gartner-identifies-four-trends-driving-near-term-artificial-intelligence-innovation  

Join host, Boris Shalumov with special guest, Jans Aasman for this episode of Chaos Orchestra. Can Knowledge Graphs help to build better Cognitive Models? How will Knowledge Graphs look like in the future and how will we interact with them? Why didn’t Knowledge Graphs solve COVID-19-related data problems? How far away are Technocracy and Digital … Continue reading Chaos Orchestra →

By Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO The low-code, no-code methodology is becoming highly sought-after throughout the modern IT ecosystem—and with good reason. Options that minimize manually writing code capitalize on the self-service, automation idiom that’s imperative in a world in which working remotely and doing more with less keeps organizations in business. Most codeless or low-code … Continue reading No-Code Queries Can Accelerate AI and Data Analytics →

Dr. Aasman recently interviewed for this Datanami article. Business is booming these days for graph databases–maybe it took COVID to show us how connected everything is–and that’s good news for Franz, which develops a semantic graph database called AllegroGraph. Just the same, you won’t find CEO Jans Aasman spending much time convincing developers of a … Continue reading Why Young Developers Don’t Get Knowledge Graphs →

Dr. Aasman recently publish this article on Graph Neural Networks at Toward Data Science. The capacity to consistently attain enterprise value from mission critical machine learning deployments hinges on at least one of the following three applications: classifying entities, predicting events, and understanding why events happened. No matter which technique is used, whether it includes … Continue reading The Next Step in Machine Learning’s Evolution: Graph Neural Networks →

AllegroGraph’s FedShard Technology Underpins Flexible AI Knowledge Fabrics Franz Inc. has been named to KMWorld’s AI50 – The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management. Underscoring Franz’s technology leadership in Graph-based AI, the company’s Knowledge Graph Platform, AllegroGraph, was relied upon for market research in leading analyst reports, including Forrester’s Now Tech: Multimodel Data Platforms, Q1 2021 … Continue reading Franz Inc. Named to KMWorld’s AI50 →

Jans Aasman, please tell us about your current role and the team / technology you handle at Franz. As CEO of Franz Inc., I drive the overall technology vision for our Enterprise Knowledge Graph solutions and ensure our customer projects deliver the ROI results expected with graph based architectures. Franz Inc. is composed of an expert team … Continue reading AiThority Interview with Dr. Jans Aasman →

Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. was interviewed for this InsideBigData Article: The predictive prowess of machine learning is widely hailed as the summit of statistical Artificial Intelligence. Vaunted for its ability to enhance everything from customer service to operations, its numerous neural networks, multiple models, and deep learning deployments are considered an enterprise surety … Continue reading The Amazing Applications of Graph Neural Networks →