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Hosting Advice – February 2019 Franz CEO Dr. Jans Aasman Explains JSON-LD: A Method of Encoding Linked Data That Adds Meaning to JSON Objects. JSON-LD, a method of presenting structured Schema.org data … Continue reading JSON-LD: A Method of Encoding Linked Data That Adds Meaning to JSON Objects →

InfoSecurity – February 2019 Dr. Jans Aasman was quoted in this article about how AllegroGraph’s Triple Attributes provide Storage Layer Security. With horizontal standards such as the General Data Protection … Continue reading Unraveling the Quandary of Access Layer versus Storage Layer Security →

Crypto Slate – January 2019 by Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. If organizations could only augment blockchain’s strengths—its immutability, security, and decentralization—while addressing its latency and scalability issues, it … Continue reading Going Beyond Blockchain with Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) →

Dataversity – January 2019 Noam Chomsky, the philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and father of modern linguistics, has authored over 1,000 articles and 130 books. The 89-year-old intellectual also … Continue reading The Semantic Knowledge Graph: A Tribute →

Dataversity – January 2019 What to expect of Semantic Web and other Semantic Technologies in 2019? Quite a bit. DATAVERSITY engaged with leaders in the space to get their thoughts … Continue reading Semantic Web and Semantic Technology Trends in 2019 →

AI Business – December 2018 2019 will be a crucial year for the Internet of Things for two reasons. Firstly, many of the initial predictions for this application of big … Continue reading 2019 Trends In The Internet Of Things: The Makings Of An Intelligent IoT →

Dataversity –  December 2018 There’s a general consensus throughout the data ecosystem that Data Preparation is the most substantial barrier to capitalizing on data-driven processes. Whether organizations are embarking on … Continue reading Solving Knowledge Graph Data Prep with Standards →

Database Trends and Applications –  December 2018 You can call it the new oil, or even the new electricity, but however it is described, it’s clear that data is now … Continue reading AllegroGraph named to 2019 Trend-Setting Products →

Published in SD Times – December, 2018 Knowledge is the foundation of intelligence— whether artificial intelligence or conventional human intellect. The understanding implicit in intelligence, its application towards business problems … Continue reading Knowledge Graphs — The path to true AI →

From a Quora post by Alan Morrison – Sr. Research Fellow at PricewaterhouseCoopers – November 2018 The most interesting use is the most powerful: standard RDF graphs for large-scale knowledge … Continue reading What is the most interesting use of a graph database you ever seen? PWC responds. →

From an AI Business Article by Jelani Harper – November 2018 The propagation of the enterprise’s ability to capitalize on data-driven processes—to effectively reap data’s yield as an organizational asset, … Continue reading 2019 Trends in Data Governance: The Model Governance Question →

From Forbes Technology Council – October 2018 This article discusses the facets of machine learning and AI: Lauded primarily for its automation and decision support, machine learning is undoubtedly a … Continue reading AI Requires More Than Machine Learning →

Press Release – September 10, 2018 First Semantic Knowledge Graph for a Public Figure will Semantically Link Books, Interviews, Movies, TV Programs and Writings from the Most Cited U.S. Scholar OAKLAND, … Continue reading Franz and Semantic Web Co. Partner to Create a Noam Chomsky Knowledge Graph →

From Gartner – August 2018 Gartner Identifies Five Emerging Technology Trends That Will Blur the Lines Between Human and Machine Gartner’s HypeCycle report is know acknowledging Knowledge Graphs, a market … Continue reading Gartner – Knowledge Graphs Emerge in the HypeCycle →

From VentureBeat August 2018 This article discusses Montefiore’s PALM project that uses AllegroGraph: Montefiore is one of the largest employers in New York State. It’s also one of the busiest … Continue reading Venture Beat Features Montefiore’s Healthcare project with AllegroGraph →

From AI Business – August 2018 This article covers machine learning and AI: According to Franz CEO Jans Aasman, these machine learning deployments not only maximize organizational investments in them … Continue reading Transmuting Machine Learning into Verifiable Knowledge →

Artificial intelligence has the potential to make huge improvements in just about every aspect of healthcare. Learn how Montefiore Health Systems is using semantic data lakes, architectures, and triplestores to … Continue reading Using AI and Semantic Data Lakes in Healthcare – FeibusTech Research Report →

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman, recently wrote the following article for InfoWorld. The temporal benefits of cognitive knowledge graphs can affect almost any business problem, including basic issues of data management … Continue reading Navigating time in knowledge graphs →

From AI Business June 27, 2018 This article covers Single Schema, Universal Taxonomies, Time Series Analysis, Accelerating Data Science and features some thought leadership from Franz Inc.’s CEO, Jans Aasman: … Continue reading The Cornerstone of Data Science: Progressive Data Modeling →

From Global Banking and Finance Review – July 12, 2018 This article discusses Knowledge Graphs for Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Suspicious Activity Reports (SAR), counterfeiting and social engineering falsities, as well as synthetic, first-party, … Continue reading Optimizing Fraud Management with AI Knowledge Graphs →