Franz periodically distributes newsletters to its Semantic Technologies, Knowledge Graph, and Common Lisp based Enterprise Development Tools mailing lists, providing information on related upcoming events and new software product developments. The latest newsletter is displayed below. Previous issues are listed in the Newsletter Archive.
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Knowledge Graph Standards in Ambient Computing
By Jans Aasman, CEO Ambient computing is a broad term that describes an environment of smart devices, data, AI decisions, and human activity that enables computer actions alongside everyday life, … Continue reading Knowledge Graph Standards in Ambient Computing →
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“Best Knowledge Graph” – AllegroGraph – KMWorld Readers’ Choice
AllegroGraph also wins Finalist position for “Best Cognitive Computing and AI Platform”. Franz Inc., is proud to announce it has been named the “Best Knowledge Graph” in the 2021 KMWorld … Continue reading “Best Knowledge Graph” – AllegroGraph – KMWorld Readers’ Choice →
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100 Companies That Matter – Franz Inc.
Franz Inc. Named to KMWorld’s – “100 Companies That Matter” in Knowledge Management Franz Inc. has been named to the 100 Companies That Matter by KMWorld for 2022. Additionally, AllegroGraph … Continue reading 100 Companies That Matter – Franz Inc. →
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Linguistic Reduction and Knowledge Graphs for Next-Gen Chatbots
Dr. Jans Aasman and Dr. Richard Wallace were recently published in AIThority. Chatbots are dynamic agents with the express capability to engage in conversational interactions. By applying innovative linguistic reduction … Continue reading Linguistic Reduction and Knowledge Graphs for Next-Gen Chatbots →
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Essilor’s Knowledge Graph for Global Supply Chain Risk Management
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 … Continue reading Essilor’s Knowledge Graph for Global Supply Chain Risk Management →
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Authentic Meets Artificial – The New Intelligence – DM Radio Broadcast
Understanding the world around us increasingly involves Artificial Intelligence. Once the stuff of elite corporations, the barrier has now dropped substantially, and practically anyone can get in on the game! … Continue reading Authentic Meets Artificial – The New Intelligence – DM Radio Broadcast →
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Embedding Gruff In a Web Page
Gruff can be embedded in any web page to use Gruff inside your own web site or web application. The file embedding.html in the Gruff installation folder provides a complete … Continue reading Embedding Gruff In a Web Page →
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Graph Analytics with AllegroGraph and Apache Spark
AllegroGraph enables users to export data out of their Knowledge Graph and perform graph analytics with Apache Spark, one of the most popular platforms for large-scale data processing. Users immediately … Continue reading Graph Analytics with AllegroGraph and Apache Spark →
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How AI Boosts Human Expertise at Wolters Kluwer
On balance, there will be some jobs lost to artificial intelligence, and you can also expect AI to create other jobs. But at the global information services company Wolters Kluwer, AI is being infused into expert systems in a bid to augment lawyers, accountants, and other professionals with superior decision-making abilities.
The 180-year-old company originally encapsulated its knowledge and recommendations for specific professional domains in books, but today it has largely made the transition to digital technologies.The 180-year-old company originally encapsulated its knowledge and recommendations for specific professional domains in books, but today it has largely made the transition to digital technologies.
Thousands of companies around the world rely on Wolters Kluwer’s practice management software to automate core aspects of their businesses. That includes doctor’s offices that use its software make healthcare decisions in a clinical setting, corporate law offices that use its software to understand M&A activities, and accounting firms that use its software to craft tax strategies for high net-worth clients.
The dispensation of expert advice has always been Wolters Kluwer’s business model, whether through books stuffed with actuarial tables or through hand-written rules carefully coded into its software. So it’s no surprise that the company today is turning to powerful AI technology to take its expert systems to the next level…
“We’re providing this live feedback. As you’re typing, we’re providing question and suggestions for you live,” said Greg Tatham CTO Global Platforms. “AllegroGraph gives us a performant way to be able to just work our way through the whole knowledge model and come up with suggestion to the user in real time.”
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IEEE Publication – Transmuting Information to Knowledge with an Enterprise Knowledge Graph
The enterprise knowledge graph for entity 360-views has emerged as one of the most useful graph database technology applications when buttressed by W3C standard semantic technology, modern artificial intelligence, and visual discovery tools. Read this IEEE publication by Dr. Jans Aasman to learn more about Knowledge Graphs.
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Kafka Graph Streaming Pipeline with AllegroGraph
AllegroGraph is used very often as an Entity Event Knowledge Graph platform. Our customers use the entity-event approach in diverse settings like a call center, a hospital, in insurance, in aviation and even in finance. AllegroGraph as an entity-event knowledge graph will accept incoming events, do instant queries and analytics on the new data and then store events and results. AllegroGraph is geared to high speed inserts so in general can keep up with high business loads but for several reasons it is advantageous to couple AllegroGraph with Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used by thousands of companies for high-performance data pipelines, streaming analytics, data integration, and mission-critical applications.
Gruff v8 – Now Available!
New Features Include:

By augmenting Knowledge Graphs with visualizations, users can determine insights that would otherwise elude them. Gruff’s dynamic data visualizations increase users’ understanding of data by instantly illustrating relevant relationships, hidden patterns and data’s significance to outcomes. Gruff also helps make data actionable by displaying it in a way that decision-makers can see the significance of data relative to a business problem or solution.
Gruff enables users to create visual knowledge graphs that display data relationships in views that are driven by the user. Ad hoc and exploratory analysis can be performed by simply clicking on different graph nodes to answer questions. Gruff’s unique ‘Time Machine’ feature provides the capability to explore temporal context and connections within data. The visual query builder within Gruff empowers both novice and expert users to create simple to highly complex queries without writing any code
- Now Browser Based
- Graphical View with new “Time Machine” feature – See the shape and density of graph data evolve over time
- Tabular view – Understand objects as a whole
- Outline view – Explore the often hierarchical nature of graphs
- Query view – Write Prolog or SPARQL queries
- Graphical Query Builder – Create queries visually via drag and drop
For additional information, see the Gruff Documentation
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California utilities should have used digital twin technology instead of power shutoffs
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Earth Day – Franz Inc. and Geoscience Experts Recognize the Growing Importance of Semantic Knowledge Graphs for Earth Science
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Seeking an edge: Exploiting alternative big data sources and customer data for financial gain
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Dataconomy article – Triple Attributes: A New Way to Protect the Most Sensitive Information
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AnalyticsWeek article – Better than Master Data Management: Building the Ultimate Customer 360 with Artificial Intelligence
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Analytics Week – Implementing Personalized, Precision Medicine with Artificial Intelligence and Semantic Graph Technology
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Bloor Research Positions Franz’s AllegroGraph as a ‘Champion’ and Highest Ranked in Graph Database Market
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Virtual Strategy Magazine article – Why Semantics & Data Linking is Vital to Artificial Intelligence
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Knowledge Management World article – How does precision medicine become a reality? The Semantic Data Lake for Healthcare makes it possible
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HealthIT Analytics article – Semantic Computing, Predictive Analytics Need Reliable Metadata
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Computer Technology Review article – Cognitive Computing is Turning Precision Medicine into a Reality
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Database Trends and Applications article – Franz Updates Graph Analytics Platform with Dynamic Data Visualization
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CIO Review article – Franz Inc.: Making Complex Data Meaningful with Semantic Graph Analytics
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HealthITAnalytics article – Semantic Big Data Lakes Can Support Better Population Health
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Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the Enterprise Data World Conference in San Diego
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Franz Inc. – Named to Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2018 by Database Trends and Applications
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HealthIT Analytics article – Montefiore Semantic Data Lake Tackles Predictive Analytics
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Franz Inc. Recognized Among Top 10 Analytics Solution Providers 2016 by Pharma Tech Outlook
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virtual-strategy.com – Why Semantics & Data Linking is Vital to Artificial Intelligence
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ODBMS.org article – “On data analytics for finance. Interview with RavenPack’s Jason S.Cornez.”
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Bloor Research Positions AllegroGraph as a “Champion”.
A graph database is one that stores data in terms of entities and the relationships between entities. A variant on this theme are RDF (resource description framework) databases which store data in the format subject-predicate-object, which is known as a triple.
Both graph and RDF databases may be native products or they may be built on top of other database types. Most commonly, other database types are forms of NoSQL database though there are some relational implementations.
Read the Bloor Research Report – Graph Databases
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