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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, businesses rely on data to deliver a competitive edge. The urgency to compete on analytics has spread across industries, fueled by the need for greater … Continue reading Big Data 50 – Companies Driving Innovation in 2019
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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 use cases, becomes almost instantly available upon request, and is exchangeable between departments or organizations to systematically increase its yield with each deployment. These boons … Continue reading The Importance of FAIR Data in Earth Science
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Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman’s recent IoT Evolution Article: Conceptually, the promise of the Internet of Things is almost halcyon. Its billions of sensors are all connected, continuously transmitting data to support tailored, cost-saving measures maximizing revenues in applications as diverse as smart cities, smart price tags, and predictive maintenance in the Industrial Internet. Practically, the … Continue reading Harnessing the Internet of Things with JSON-LD
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Introduction In this document we describe how to setup an AllegroGraph replication cluster on AWS using the terraform program. The cluster will have one controlling instance and a set of instances controlled by an Auto Scaling Group and reached via a Load Balancer. Creating such a system on AWS takes a long time if done manually through their web interface. We have … Continue reading AllegroGraph Replication on Amazon’s AWS using Terraform
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SHACL is a SHApe Constraint Language. It specifies a vocabulary (using triples) to describe the shape that data should have. The shape specifies things like the following simple requirements: How many triples with a specified subject and predicate should be in the repository (e.g. at least 1, at most 1, exactly 1). What the nature of the … Continue reading SHACL – Shapes Constraint Language in AllegroGraph
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Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman’s recent Destination CRM article: The need for text analytics and speech recognition has broadened over the years, becoming more prevalent and essential in the sales, marketing, and customer service departments of various types of businesses and industries. The goal is simple for these contact center use cases: provide real-time assistance to human agents … Continue reading Turn Customer Service Calls into Enterprise Knowledge Graphs
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Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph and Document Database technology for Knowledge Graphs, today announced that it has been named to Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) – 2019 Top 100 That Matter Most in Data. “We’re excited to announce our seventh annual list, as the industry continues … Continue reading AllegroGraph Named to DBTA Top 100 That Matter Most in Data
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DOWNLOAD – Gruff Gruff is the Knowledge Graph industry’s leading Graph Visualization software for exploring and discovering connections within data. Gruff provides novice users and graph experts the ability to visually build queries and explore connections as they developed over time. Gruff produces dynamic data visualizations that organize connections between data in views that are … Continue reading New Gruff v7.4 – Now Available!
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Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman’s recent Forbes article: There’s a fascinating dichotomy in artificial intelligence between statistics and rules, machine learning and expert systems. Newcomers to artificial intelligence (AI) regard machine learning as innately superior to brittle rules-based systems, while the history of this field reveals both rules and probabilistic learning are integral components of AI. This fact … Continue reading Creating Explainable AI With Rules
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AllegroGraph provides two ways to add metadata to triples. The first one is very similar to what typical property graph databases provide: we use the named graph of triples to store meta data about that triple. The second approach is what we have termed triple attributes. An attribute is a key/value pair associated with an … Continue reading Adding Properties to Triples in AllegroGraph
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