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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 many organizations to provide a timely flow of targeted information. Among the more prominent initiatives is the use of AI and cognitive computing, as well … 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 remember the AI winter in the 1990s, which resulted from overinflated promises by developers and unnaturally high expectations from end users. Now, industry insiders, such as Facebook … 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 area. Digital twin technologies are gaining traction across industries and use cases. Initially devised as a means of monitoring assets and production settings in manufacturing, … 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 presentation: “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 … 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 We’re still in the midst of a fake news crisis, and with the emergence of deep fakes, it will likely get worse. Luckily, we have … 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 into an instance of an AllegroGraph graph database. The model description itself can be found in the Turtle file model.ttl. The following Turtle example demonstrates … 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 (DBTA) magazine announced its seventh annual list of trend-setting products in data management and analysis. The list, “DBTA Trend-Setting Products for 2020,” recognizes products in … 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 material from the earlier editions and added application examples for deep learning, back-propagation and Hopfield neural networks, using the CLML machine learning library, heuristic search, … 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 in data, which is important for extracting value as well as complying with new data regulations. The concept of the enterprise knowledge graph (EKG) is … 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), with an applicability that easily lends itself to numerous businesses. Its real-time streaming data, simulation capabilities and relationship awareness may well prove to be the … Continue reading Three Necessities For Maximizing Your Digital Twins Approach →