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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 … Continue reading New Gruff v7.4 – Now Available! →

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 … Continue reading Creating Explainable AI With Rules →

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 … Continue reading Adding Properties to Triples in AllegroGraph →

Semantically Linking Earth Observation Data Makes it FAIR for the Global Community of Geoscientists In celebration of Earth Day, Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading … Continue reading Earth Day – Franz Inc. and Geoscience Experts Recognize the Growing Importance of Semantic Knowledge Graphs for Earth Science →

Presenters – Burt Smith, N3 Results and Jans Aasman, Franz Inc. In the typical sales organization the contents of the actual chat or voice conversation between agent and customer is … Continue reading Webcast – Speech Recognition, Knowledge Graphs, and AI for Intelligent Customer Operations – April 3, 2019 →

The following is example #19 from our AllegroGraph Python Tutorial. JSON-LD is described pretty well at https://json-ld.org/ and the specification can be found at https://json-ld.org/latest/json-ld/ . The website https://json-ld.org/playground/ is also useful. There are many reasons … Continue reading Using JSON-LD in AllegroGraph – Python Example →

According to Donald Feinberg, vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner, the very challenge created by digital disruption — too much data — has also created an unprecedented opportunity. The vast … Continue reading Gartner Identifies Top 10 Data and Analytics Technology Trends for 2019 →

Algorithm-XLab – March 2019 Franz CEO Dr. Jans Aasman Explains how to manage AI Modelling Risks. AI model risk management has moved to the forefront of contemporary concerns for statistical Artificial Intelligence, … Continue reading What is the Answer to AI Model Risk Management? →

Download – AllegroGraph v6.5 and Gruff v7.3  AllegroGraph – Documentation Gruff – Documentation Adding JSON/JSON-LD Documents to a Graph Database Traditional document databases (e.g. MongoDB) have excelled at storing documents at … Continue reading New!!! AllegroGraph v6.5 – Multi-model Semantic Graph and Document Database →

Forbes – February 2019 Although you may not have heard of JavaScript Object Notation Linked Data (JSON-LD), it is already affecting your business. Search engine giant Google has mentioned JSON-LD as a … Continue reading Why Is JSON-LD Important To Businesses? →

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. →