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A core competency for Franz Inc is turning text and documents into Knowledge Graphs (KG) using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Machine Learning (ML) techniques in combination with AllegroGraph. In … Continue reading Document Knowledge Graphs with NLP and ML →

Recipes for Knowledge Graphs that Work: Learn why and how to build knowledge graphs that help enterprises use data to innovate, create value and increase revenue. This practical manual is … Continue reading The Knowledge Graph Cookbook →

COVID-19 is having a dramatic impact on people, communities, and businesses around the world. Our thoughts are with those who have been affected by the virus. Our team has spent … Continue reading Important Update to Franz Inc.’s Customers and Partners →

The statistical branch of Artificial Intelligence has enamored organizations across industries, spurred an immense amount of capital dedicated to its technologies, and entranced numerous media outlets for the past couple of years. All … Continue reading Answering the Question Why: Explainable AI →

AllegroGraph Thought Leadership Article from Big Data Quarterly Knowledge graphs link together data of any variety, structure, or format in business terms via uniform data models. Organizations can then join … Continue reading Improving Data Processes with Knowledge Graphs →

Franz Inc., is proud to announce that it has been named to The 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management by KMWorld.  The annual list reflects the urgency felt among … Continue reading 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management →

Forbes published the following article by Dr. Jans Aasman, Franz Inc.’s CEO. Although there has been great progress in artificial intelligence (AI) over the past few years, many of us … Continue reading How To Avoid Another AI Winter →

Northern California’s proactive power outages were not necessary last fall. Digital Twin technology can predict utility line failures and turn off power in milliseconds to avoid the potential of sparks igniting the surrounding … Continue reading California utilities should have used digital twin technology instead of power shutoffs →

Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc., will be presenting, “Creating Explainable AI with Rules” at the Global Graph Summit, a part of Data Day Texas. The abstract for Dr. Aasman’s … Continue reading Franz Inc. to Present at The Global Graph Summit and Data Day Texas →

Looking to the future of AI, KnowledgeGraph and Semantics we had a number of publications cover our views of where AllegroGraph is headed.   Datanami 20 AI Predictions for 2020 … Continue reading Franz’s 2020 Predictions in the News →

For more examples visit – https://github.com/franzinc/agraph-examples Introduction This example demonstrates an RDF model for Bitcoin chain data as well as a Python tool to pull the data from a Bitcoin node … Continue reading Bitcoin RDF Model in AllegroGraph →

Franz Inc. is proud to announce that it has been named to the 2020 Trend Setting Products in Data Management by Database Trends and Application Magazine. Database Trends and Applications … Continue reading 2020 Trend Setting Products – AllegroGraph →

This is the fifth edition (released September 2019) of Mark Watson’s  “Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer’s Secret Weapon.” From the website – “I removed some of the older … Continue reading Loving Common Lisp, or the Savvy Programmer’s Secret Weapon →

KMWorld 2019 Readers’ Choice Awards: Best Knowledge Graph AllegroGraph – Finalist The ability for knowledge graphs to amass information and relationships and connect those facts allows companies to find context … Continue reading AllegroGraph – KMWorld Readers Choice Finalist →

The digital twin premise is arguably the most viable means of implementing equipment asset management throughout the industrial internet. It’s an exceptionally lucrative element of the internet of things (IoT), … Continue reading Three Necessities For Maximizing Your Digital Twins Approach →

For more examples visit – https://github.com/franzinc/agraph-examples Introduction In this document we primarily discuss running a Multi-Master Replication cluster (MMR) inside Kubernetes. We will also show a Docker Swarm implementation. This directory and … Continue reading Multi-Master Replication Clusters in Kubernetes and Docker Swarm →

Graph-Driven Event Processing for Intelligent Customer Operations Wednesday, October 16, 2019 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM Level: Case Study In the typical organization, the contents of the actual chat or … Continue reading Graphorum – Dr. Aasman Presenting →

Instances of CLOS classes include a vector of slot values associated with the instance. A new feature in Allegro CL allows these slot values to be accessed more efficiently by … Continue reading Fixed Indices Speed up Slot Access in Allegro CL →

Franz Inc. is proud to announce that it has been named to Database Trends and Application (DBTA) – Big Data 50, Companies Driving Innovation in 2019 Today, more than ever, … Continue reading Big Data 50 – Companies Driving Innovation in 2019 →

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman’s recent Marine Technology News: Data’s valuation as an enterprise asset is most acutely realized over time. When properly managed, the same dataset supports a plurality of … Continue reading The Importance of FAIR Data in Earth Science →