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ChatStream™ Transforms Data Analysis by Empowering Users to Access Complex Enterprise Knowledge through Simple Questions

Lafayette, Calif., April 22, 2024 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced AllegroGraph 8.1, a groundbreaking Neuro-Symbolic AI Platform that incorporates ChatStreamä, a natural language query interface for querying a neuro-symbolic application.  AllegroGraph with ChatStream redefines how Knowledge Graphs are queried and expands the boundaries of what AI can achieve within the most secure graph database on the market.

“AllegroGraph was the first to deliver a comprehensive Neuro-Symbolic AI platform and the addition of ChatStream makes it even easier to ask questions of your connected enterprise data,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “Organizations across a range of industries are realizing the critical role that Knowledge Graphs play in creating the next generation of AI driven applications.  AllegroGraph provides enterprise users with the trust, explainability, and semantics required to future-proof AI systems.”

“Neurosymbolic AI is a form of composite AI that combines machine learning methods and symbolic systems to create more robust and trustworthy AI models. It provides a reasoning infrastructure for solving a wider range of business problems more effectively.” Gartner – Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2023

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Lafayette, Calif.,  April 3, 2024 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Knowledge Graph solutions, for Neuro-Symbolic AI,  today announced it has been named a KMWorld’s “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management”.

AllegroGraph, a groundbreaking Neuro-Symbolic AI Platform incorporates Large Language Model (LLM) components directly into SPARQL along with vector generation and vector storage for a comprehensive AI Knowledge Graph solution. AllegroGraph redefines how Knowledge Graphs are created and expands the boundaries of what AI can achieve within the most secure triplestore database on the market.

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Cutting-edge Knowledge Graph Visualization Tool Delivers No-code Queries, Hypergraphs and Dynamic Graph Displays

Lafayette, Calif., February 5, 2024 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Knowledge Graph technology for Neuro-Symbolic AI applications, today announced Gruff 9, a web-based advanced Knowledge Graph visualization tool that offers LLM integration and unique RDF* (RDFStar) features for building next-generation AI applications.

Gruff 9 provides users the ability to embed natural language LLM queries in SPARQL and visualize and explore the connections displayed in the results. Gruff now provides a unique visualization solution for the emerging RDF* standard from W3C.  The RDF* standard is an improvement over the labeled property graph approach (supported by other vendors) as it allows full hypergraph capabilities.

Gruff 9 is included with AllegroGraph Cloud, Franz’s hosted version of its groundbreaking Neuro-Symbolic AI platform. Gruff and AllegroGraph Cloud offers users a convenient and easy on-ramp to building advanced AI applications.

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AllegroGraph Cloud offers the first Knowledge Graphs-as-a-Service for Neuro-Symbolic AI Applications

Lafayette, Calif., January 17, 2024 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced AllegroGraph Cloud, a hosted version of Franz’s groundbreaking Neuro-Symbolic AI platform.  AllegroGraph Cloud provides users a convenient and easy on-ramp to building advanced AI applications.

AllegroGraph Cloud is built on the recently announced AllegroGraph v8, a groundbreaking Neuro-Symbolic AI Platform that incorporates Large Language Model (LLM) components directly into SPARQL along with vector generation and vector storage for a comprehensive AI Knowledge Graph solution. AllegroGraph v8 redefines how Knowledge Graphs are created and expands the boundaries of what AI can achieve within the most secure triplestore database on the market.

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Allegro Common Lisp Gains LLM Integration, Enhanced Knowledge Graph and Vector Capabilities via AllegroGraph

LAFAYETTE, Calif. — January 8, 2024 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a leading supplier of Common Lisp (CL) development tools and Knowledge Graph solutions, today announced Allegro CL v11, which includes key performance enhancements now available within the most effective system for developing and deploying applications to solve complex problems in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

“The rapid adoption of Generative AI (LLMs) is fueling heightened demand for guided, fact-based applications which is  significantly impacting applications in traditional AI industries like national defense, as well as in life sciences, manufacturing and financial analytics,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “The complexity of today’s software applications coupled with the explosion of data size requires a highly versatile and robust programming language. With Allegro CL v11, machine intelligence developers now have a high-performance tool to scale their applications and deliver innovative products to market.”

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AllegroGraph 8.0 Validates Generative AI Content, Unveils Hidden Knowledge within Documents and Powers Natural Language Queries    

Lafayette, Calif., December 11, 2023 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced AllegroGraph 8.0, a groundbreaking Neuro-Symbolic AI Platform that incorporates Large Language Model (LLM) components directly into SPARQL along with vector generation and vector storage for a comprehensive AI Knowledge Graph solution. AllegroGraph 8.0 redefines how Knowledge Graphs are created and expands the boundaries of what AI can achieve within the most secure triplestore database on the market.

“While general-purpose LLMs excel at straightforward tasks that do not necessitate background or changing knowledge, addressing more complex, knowledge-intensive queries demands the capabilities provided with a Knowledge Graph to avoid generating ‘hallucinations,’” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “We designed AllegroGraph 8.0 with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities to provide users with seamless Generative AI capabilities within a Knowledge Graph platform, while dynamically fact-checking LLM outputs to ensure that they are grounded in fact-based knowledge.”

Leading analyst firms recognize the compelling synergy between Knowledge Graphs and LLMs. “Data and analytics leaders must leverage the power of large language models (LLMs) with the robustness of knowledge graphs for fault-tolerant AI applications,” advises Gartner in a June 9, 2023 report titled: AI Design Patterns for Knowledge Graphs and Generative AI.

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Lafayette, California, December 11, 2023 – Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced its attainment of System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type 1 compliance. This achievement underscores the company’s dedication to offering superior data security and privacy for its expanding Commercial, Academic and Government customers.

The SOC 2 Type I audit, conducted by Laika Compliance LLC, independently evaluated Franz Inc.’s internal controls related to security, availability, and data confidentiality. This audit is a widely recognized standard set by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). SOC 2 compliance certifies that Franz Inc.’s controls and procedures align with the AICPA’s Trust Service Criteria.

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Franz’s Knowledge Graph Solution Voted as The Best for a Third Straight Year

Lafayette, Calif., November 8, 2023 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named the  “Best Knowledge Graph” in the 2023 KMWorld Readers’ Choice Award voting.

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, GraphQL, Apache Spark graph analytics, and Kafka streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“We are delighted by this recognition from the Graph Community, which underscores our unwavering dedication to advancing innovation in Knowledge Graph solutions, said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “Across a spectrum of industries, organizations are realizing the critical role that Knowledge Graphs play in shaping fact-based, AI-powered applications. The AllegroGraph team will continue to rapidly innovate to provide our customers with truth based knowledge fabrics by merging Knowledge Graphs with the tremendous potential of Generative AI.”

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AllegroGraph Powers LLMs to Deliver Fact-based AI Knowledge Graph Solutions for the Enterprise

Lafayette, Calif., September 26, 2023 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named a “2023 Trend Setting Product” by KMWorld.

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, GraphQL, Apache Spark graph analytics, and Kafka streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“Franz Inc. is continually innovating and we are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts to deliver industry leading solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “Organizations across a range of industries are realizing the critical role that Knowledge Graphs play in creating rich, yet flexible AI-driven applications. AllegroGraph with its patented FedShard™ technology uniquely provides companies with the foundational environment for delivering Graph based AI solutions with the ability to continually enrich and contextualize the understanding of data.”

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AllegroGraph Powers LLMs to Deliver Fact-based AI Knowledge Graph Solutions for the Enterprise

Lafayette, Calif., July 18, 2023 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named to KMWorld’s “AI 100 Top Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management.”

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, GraphQL, Apache Spark graph analytics, and Kafka streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“Today, AI has the potential to impact almost every part of an organization’s structure and operations, including their customer-facing presence,” remarked Tom Hogan Jr., publisher of KMWorld. “We see AI reaching into marketing, customer service, legal, finance, human resources, compliance, fleet maintenance, manufacturing, sales, and many other business units.”

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AllegroGraph Delivers AI Knowledge Graph Solutions for the Enterprise

Lafayette, Calif., June 20, 2023 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named to Database Trends and Applications  “100 Companies That Matter Most in Data.”  .

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, GraphQL, Apache Spark graph analytics, and Kafka streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“The data landscape continues to increase in size and complexity and is more distributed than ever before,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher, Database Trends and Applications. “Spanning the wide range of established legacy technologies from MultiValue to cutting-edge breakthroughs such as LLMs, the DBTA 100 is a list of hardware, software, and service providers working to enable their customers’ data-driven future.”

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Lafayette, Calif., March 15, 2023 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named to KMWorld’s  “100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management.”  Additionally, AllegroGraph was recently named “Best Knowledge Graph” by KMWorld Readers’ Choice Award aware voting.

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, GraphQL, Apache Spark graph analytics, and Kafka streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“The increasing power of augmented and artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, semantic layering, knowledge graphs, cloud computing, chatbots, text analytics, and more has revolutionized many aspects of KM,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher, KMWorld. “Putting together the list of 100 companies that matter in KM causes us to look at companies with pioneering solutions. We applaud innovation, agility, and a focus on the customer. We are excited about the future.”

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Franz Inc. Delivers AI Knowledge Fabric Solutions for the Enterprise

Lafayette, Calif., January 4, 2023 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named a  “2023 Trend Setting Product” by Database Trends and Applications.  Additionally, AllegroGraph was recently named “Best Knowledge Graph” by KMWorld Readers’ Choice Award aware voting.

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, GraphQL, Apache Spark graph analytics, and Kafka streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“Today’s data environments are highly diverse—residing on many platforms and requiring a variety of approaches to ensure data resiliency and availability,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher, Database Trends and Applications. “To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year, DBTA presents a list of ‘Trend-Setting Products.’ These products, platforms, and services range from long-established offerings that are evolving to meet the needs of their loyal constituents, to breakthrough technologies that may only be in the early stages of adoption.”

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Franz’s Knowledge Graph Solution Voted as The Best for a Second Straight Year

Lafayette, Calif., November 22, 2022 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named the  “Best Knowledge Graph” in the 2022 KMWorld Readers’ Choice Award voting.

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, GraphQL, Apache Spark graph analytics, and Kafka streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“As the stakes get higher for information-driven successes, businesses must make technology decisions from an increasingly diverse array of knowledge management offerings,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher at KMWorld. “The Readers’ Choice Awards put the spotlight on innovative and dependable solutions and services that can help companies solve pressing challenges and take advantage of new opportunities.”

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AllegroGraph with FedShard Delivers Semantic Layer Solutions for the Enterprise

Lafayette, Calif., September 26, 2022 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named to the “Big Data 50: Companies Driving Innovation in 2022” by Database Trends and Applications.

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, GraphQL, Apache Spark graph analytics, and Kafka streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“Data has only become more important as organizations look ahead to what a post-pandemic world could look like,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher, Big Data Quarterly. “To support organizations in navigating through new challenges and a rapidly evolving big data ecosystem, Big Data Quarterly presents 2022s ‘Big Data 50,’ a list of companies driving innovation and expanding what is possible in terms of collecting, storing, and extracting value from data.”

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Franz Inc. Delivers AI Knowledge Fabric Solutions for the Enterprise

Lafayette, Calif., September 21, 2022 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named to the “2022 Trend Setting Products” by KMWorld.

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, GraphQL,  Apache Spark graph analytics, and Kafka streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“Solutions ranging from AI and Knowledge Graphs to remote and hybrid working environments are shaping the capabilities of products and services for 2022,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher, KMWorld. “To help showcase advanced products and services, each year KMWorld magazine looks for innovative offerings that are helping organizations become better equipped to compete in this ever changing competitive work environment. This is KMWorld’s Trend-Setting Products list of 2022!”

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Cognitive Science Expert to explain “The Role of Graphs in AI and Quantum Computing”

Lafayette, Calif., September 14, 2022 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, announced that Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, of Franz Inc. will be delivering a Keynote presentation at the 2022 SEMANTiCS conference in Vienna, Austria.

Dr. Aasman’s presentation, “The Role of Graphs in AI and Quantum Computing” will describe three emerging technology trends that will impact the Graph community and thought leadership opportunities for these technologies. Dr. Aasman’s talk will cover Knowledge Graph’s role in Natural Language Understanding, Graph Neural Networks (GNN) for predictive AI applications, and the convergence of Graph technologies and Quantum Computing.

Jans Aasman is a Ph.D. psychologist and expert in Cognitive Science – as well as CEO of Franz Inc.  As both a scientist and CEO, Dr. Aasman continues to break ground in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs as he works hand-in-hand with numerous Fortune 500 organizations as well as government entities worldwide.

The SEMANTiCS conference is an annual gathering of technology professionals, industry experts, researchers and decision makers to share and learn about new technologies, innovations and enterprise implementations in the fields of Linked Data and Semantic AI. Since 2005, the conference series has focused on semantic and graph technologies, which are today together with other methodologies such as NLP and machine learning the core of intelligent systems.

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Lafayette, Calif., July 25, 2022 — Franz Inc. an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named to the “AI50 – Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management” by KMWorld.

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, GraphQL,  Apache Spark graph analytics, and Kafka streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“AI and a host of related technologies such as augmented intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, process automation, and natural language processing are being deployed in areas as diverse as supply chain management, manufacturing, healthcare, medical research, and financial services,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher, KMWorld. “With organizations recognizing the great potential of AI, it is not surprising that the market size is also expected to increase dramatically. As part of our efforts to focus attention on the innovative knowledge management vendors that are imbuing their offerings with AI and automation, in the July issue, KMWorld presents the KMWorld AI 50: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management.”

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AllegroGraph Delivers Knowledge Fabric Solutions for the Enterprise

Lafayette, Calif., June 14, 2022 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named to the “Top 100 Companies That Matter Most in Data” by Database Trends and Applications.

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, GraphQL Apache Spark graph analytics, and Kafka streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“In today’s data-driven environment, opportunities abound for innovative companies,” stated Database Trends and Applications Group Publisher Tom Hogan Jr. “However, the ability to create new products and deal effectively with competitive issues requires strong data management and analytics capabilities. The message is clear: Business leaders understand that creating resilient IT systems and pipelines for high quality, trustworthy data moving into employees’ workflows for decision making is essential. Covering the wide range of established to cutting edge, the DBTA 100 is a list of IT hardware, software, and service providers actively working to enable their customers’ data-driven success.”

“Franz Inc. is continually innovating and we are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in setting the pace for Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “We are seeing demand for Intelligent Data Fabrics take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for Data Fabric solutions.  AllegroGraph with FedShard uniquely provides companies with the foundational environment for delivering Graph based Knowledge Management solutions with the ability to continually enrich and contextualize the understanding of data.”

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AllegroGraph Extended Support for GraphQL APIs Can Accelerate and Enhance Complex AI Applications

Lafayette, Calif., May 17, 2022 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced AllegroGraph 7.3, with enhanced GraphQL query capabilities for distributed Knowledge Graphs and Enterprise Data Fabrics. With AllegroGraph’s GraphQL APIs, developers can create performant and more complex data-driven applications. GraphQL’s unique capability to fetch the exact and specific data in a single request delivers flexibility to Knowledge Graph developers.

“GraphQL APIs are growing in importance, as more development teams rapidly adopt them to expose back-end data and functionality with greater flexibility than REST APIs,” according to Gartner. The worldwide analyst firm predicts “by 2025 more than 50% of enterprises will use GraphQL in production, up from less than 10% in 2021.” (Source: Gartner, Predicts 2022 APIs Demand Improved Security and Management, December 6, 2021.)

“GraphQL’s increasing industry adoption in combination with AllegroGraph’s FedShard and Entity-Event Modeling capabilities provide AI application developers and data architects with both the ease and flexibility to create very powerful data-driven applications across the enterprise,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “Now when organizations need to integrate multiple systems from large legacy infrastructures and add new data to deliver a rich AI application – they can do so more quickly and easily using AllegroGraph and GraphQL APIs.”

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SPIKE Intelligent Scheduling System Developed with Allegro Common Lisp Helped Astronomers Detect the Farthest Star Ever Seen

Lafayette, Calif., March 31, 2022 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced that its Allegro CL (Allegro Common Lisp) dynamic object-oriented development system used by the Space Telescope Science Institute to develop the SPIKE Hubble Space Telescope observation scheduler has aided in the discovery of “Earendel,” the farthest star ever seen in the universe.

Earendel is the latest discovery from the Hubble Space Telescope, which has been observing the cosmos for more than 30 years. The light from Earendel has taken nearly 13 billion years to reach Earth and is the most distant ever discovered. Astronomers estimate the star existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang. This record-breaking discovery may shed light on the era of very early star formation.

“We almost didn’t believe it at first, it was so much farther than the previous most-distant, highest redshift star,” said Astronomer Brian Welch of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, lead author of the paper describing the discovery, which is published in the March 30 journal Nature. The discovery was made from data collected during Hubble’s RELICS (Reionization Lensing Cluster Survey) program, led by co-author Dan Coe at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI).

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AllegroGraph delivers Knowledge Fabric solutions for the Enterprise

Lafayette, Calif., March 16, 2022 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named a 2022 KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management by KMWorld.  Additionally, AllegroGraph was recently named “Best Knowledge Graph” by KMWorld Readers’ Choice award voting.

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, Apache Spark graph analytics, and streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“While digital transformation was well underway more than 2 years ago, the trend accelerated rapidly when the pandemic hit. It’s true that the tumultuous business climate continues unabated, but smart, knowledge-driven organizations have been successfully seizing products and services that help them identify new opportunities, improve customer service, modernize operations, thwart fraudulent activity, make the right information available to staff members who need it, and, when possible, enhance decision making with real-time information,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher, KMWorld. “Against that reality, KMWorld presents the KMWorld 100 for 2022, a list of inventive knowledge management companies whose offerings are targeted at helping organizations expand their use of information and knowledge and accelerate their growth.”

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No-code Graph Queries and Dynamic Graph Visualizations Now Possible within Any Web Application

Lafayette, Calif., February 2, 2022 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced Gruff 8.1, an advanced knowledge graph visualization software tool that can be embedded in any web page or web application. Users can now visually build queries and visualize connections between enterprise data directly within a web page or web application, enabling a simple and seamless knowledge discovery experience.

“The ability to visualize data has become essential to every organization, in every industry,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “Gruff’s dynamic data visualizations enable a broad set of users to determine insights that would otherwise elude them by displaying data in a way that they can see the significance of the information relative to a business problem or solution. Gruff 8.1 makes it simple to weave these knowledge graph visualizations into web applications or web pages – further extending the power of the enterprise data fabric.”

Gruff, which is available as a browser-based application or pre-integrated into AllegroGraph, is a no-code visual query application that enables users to create visual Knowledge Graphs that display data relationships in views driven by the user. Gruff’s visual query builder empowers both novice and expert users to create simple to highly complex queries without writing any code. The unique ‘Time Machine’ function within Gruff gives users the capability to explore temporal context and connections within data.

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AllegroGraph with FedShard driving growth for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions

Lafayette, Calif., January 4, 2022 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named a 2022 Trend Setting Product by Database Trends and Applications. Additionally, AllegroGraph was recently named “Best Knowledge Graph” by KMWorld Readers’ Choice award voting.

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, Apache Spark graph analytics, and streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“The world is changing rapidly, and so are enterprise data requirements. Whether it is anticipating supply chain problems, addressing customer concerns with agility, or identifying new opportunities and pouncing quickly, the ability to achieve a comprehensive view of all available information for real-time decision making has become a strong requirement,” said Thomas Hogan, Group Publisher of Database Trends and Applications. “That is why it is more important than ever to identify products and services that help to deliver results.  This list focuses on products that represent a commitment to innovation and provide organizations with tools to address rapidly evolving market requirements.”

“Franz Inc. is continually innovating and we are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in setting the pace for Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “We are seeing demand for Intelligent Data Fabrics take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for Data Fabric solutions.  AllegroGraph with FedShard uniquely provides companies with the foundational environment for delivering Graph based AI solutions with the ability to continually enrich and contextualize the understanding of data.”

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AllegroGraph’s Security-first Approach to Graph Database and Knowledge Graph Solutions Avoids Log4j Security Vulnerability

Lafayette, CA., December 14, 2021 – Franz Inc. an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced that all of its products including: AllegroGraph, Allegro CL, Allegro NFS and Gruff have no exposure to the security vulnerability from Log4j. Franz’s products have never used Log4j, unlike other Java based graph databases and products that are vulnerable to this security exploit.

Apache Log4j is a Java-based logging utility and is part of the Apache Logging Services, a project of the Apache Software Foundation. As reported by Wired News, “A vulnerability in the widely used logging library has become a full-blown security meltdown, affecting digital systems across the internet. Hackers are already attempting to exploit it, but even as fixes emerge, researchers warn that the flaw could have serious repercussions worldwide.”

According to Wired, “The problem lies in Log4j, a ubiquitous, open source Apache logging framework that developers use to keep a record of activity within an application. Security responders are scrambling to patch the bug, which can be easily exploited to take control of vulnerable systems remotely. At the same time, hackers are actively scanning the internet for affected systems. Some have already developed tools that automatically attempt to exploit the bug, as well as worms that can spread independently from one vulnerable system to another under the right conditions.”

“Decades of working with intelligence and government agencies has instilled a ‘security-first approach’ in all of our technology development,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz, Inc. “This exploit has the potential to affect any type of business or organization. We want to assure all of our customers that their products from Franz are not at risk of exposure from Log4j.”

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AllegroGraph also wins “Finalist” position for “Best Cognitive Computing and AI Platform”

Lafayette, Calif., November 9, 2021 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named the  “Best Knowledge Graph” in the 2021 KMWorld Readers’ Choice Award voting. Additionally, AllegroGraph was considered a “Finalist” in the category of “Best Cognitive Computing and AI” platforms for the Readers’ Choice awards.

AllegroGraph provides organizations with essential Knowledge Graph solutions, including Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, Apache Spark graph analytics, and streaming graph pipelines. These capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“As the stakes get higher for information-driven successes, businesses must make technology decisions from an increasingly diverse array of knowledge management offerings,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher at KMWorld. “The Readers’ Choice Awards put the spotlight on innovative and dependable solutions and services that can help companies solve pressing challenges and take advantage of new opportunities.”

“Franz Inc. is continually innovating and we are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in setting the pace for Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “We are seeing demand for Intelligent Data Fabrics take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for Data Fabric solutions.  AllegroGraph with FedShard uniquely provides companies with the foundational environment for delivering Graph based AI solutions with the ability to continually enrich and contextualize the understanding of data.”

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Organizations Gain ‘Next Level AI’ by Merging Knowledge Graphs with Graph Neural Networks

Lafayette, Calif., October 25, 2021 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced AllegroGraph 7.2, which provides organizations with essential Data Fabric tools, including Graph Neural Networks, Graph Virtualization, Apache Spark graph analytics, and streaming graph pipelines. These new capabilities exemplify AllegroGraph’s leadership in empowering data analytics professionals to derive business value out of Knowledge Graphs.

“The ability to create Graph Neural Networks within the AllegroGraph platform opens up the next level of AI to data analytics professionals with the ability to produce the best prescriptive outcomes,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “GNNs are ideal for applying machine learning’s advanced pattern recognition to high-dimensional, non-Euclidian datasets that are too complex for other machine learning types. Organizations get two forms of reasoning in one framework by fusing GNN reasoning capabilities around relationship predictions, entity classifications, and graph clustering, with classic semantic inferencing available in AllegroGraph Knowledge Graphs. Automatically mixing and matching these two types of reasoning is next level AI and is the basis for predicting the best prescriptive outcome for any business event based on context at scale.”

Graph Neural Networks

With AllegroGraph 7.2, users can create Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and take advantage of a mature AI approach for Knowledge Graph enrichment via text processing for news classification, question and answer, search result organization, event prediction, and more. GNNs created in AllegroGraph enhance neural network methods by processing the graph data through rounds of message passing, as such, the nodes know more about their own features as well as neighbor nodes. This creates an even more accurate representation of the entire graph network. AllegroGraph GNNs advance text classification and relationship extraction for enhancing enterprise-wide Data Fabrics.

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AllegroGraph Underpins Flexible AI Knowledge Fabrics

Lafayette, California, October 5, 2021 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named to KMWorld’s Trend Setting Products of 2021. Underscoring Franz’s technology leadership in Graph-based AI, the company’s Knowledge Graph Platform, AllegroGraph, was relied upon for market research in leading analyst reports, including Forrester’s Now Tech: Multimodel Data Platforms and the Gartner Case Study: Entity-Event Knowledge Graph for Powering AI Solutions (Montefiore).

“Important trends in knowledge management – AI, natural language processing, machine learning, knowledge graphs, blockchain, and low- and no-code development – are shaping the capabilities of products and services for 2021 and beyond,” said Tom Hogan, Jr., Group Publisher of KMWorld. “But although cutting-edge approaches are emerging, established solutions are also evolving with new capabilities, resulting in a wealth of choices for companies looking to leverage their information resources more efficiently. To help showcase these innovative offerings, KMWorld magazine is presenting the Trend-Setting Products of 2021.”

“Franz Inc. is continually innovating and we are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in setting the pace for Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “We are seeing demand for Intelligent Data Fabrics take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for Data Fabric solutions.  AllegroGraph 7 with FedShardä uniquely provides companies with the foundational environment for delivering Graph based AI solutions with the ability to continually enrich and contextualize the understanding of data.”

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AllegroGraph Empowers Essilor to Address Rapid Change and Growth During COVID-19 Pandemic

Lafayette, California, September 14, 2021 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced that Essilor, the world’s leading ophthalmic optics company, built an order fulfillment system based on AllegroGraph, Franz’s Graph Database platform, in only a few months after engaging the Franz team. AllegroGraph enables Essilor to quickly evolve its data model, easily connect complex supply chain relationships, seamlessly add new applications, and confidently rely on a stable, highly scalable platform.

“Tracking product packaging and fulfilling orders efficiently had always been difficult in the past,” said Mel Yuson, Director Enterprise Architecture, Essilor AMERA. “We tried to modernize our product tracking system with 3rd party software solutions and in-house relational database applications but without success because relational databases lack the ability to model complex relationships. We needed the freedom of a schemaless graph database, like Franz’s AllegroGraph, which uniquely provides us the flexibility to evolve our data model and seamlessly add new applications to address rapid growth and changing needs at Essilor.”

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 the world leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of lenses to correct or protect eyesight. Including sundries, Essilor carries hundreds of thousands of stock and finished products that are fabricated at many different labs in different countries and are sold all over the world.

“The recent shortage of semiconductors and other globally sourced materials exemplifies how emergencies such as COVID-19 can adversely affect supply chains,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “But a Supply Chain Risk Management system based on AllegroGraph can capture important product and supply chain information, along with new events in real-time and deliver AI-driven predictions to significantly improve risk management. This is difficult to do with traditional supply chain applications, which are based on relational databases that can’t model the complex connections. Companies like Essilor can mitigate risks to critical supply chains by utilizing AllegroGraph, which is ideal for complex data modeling, seamless application integration, and real-time AI.”

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AllegroGraph’s FedShard Technology Underpins Flexible AI Knowledge Fabrics

Lafayette, California, July 14, 2021 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named to KMWorld’s AI50 – The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management. Underscoring Franz’s technology leadership in Graph-based AI, the company’s Knowledge Graph Platform, AllegroGraph, was relied upon for market research in leading analyst reports, including Forrester’s Now Tech: Multimodel Data Platforms, Q1 2021 and the Gartner Case Study: Entity-Event Knowledge Graph for Powering AI Solutions (Montefiore).

“A spectrum of AI technologies, including machine learning, natural language processing, and workflow automation, is increasingly being deployed by sophisticated organizations,” stated KMWorld Group Publisher Tom Hogan, Jr.  “Their goal is simple. These organizations seek to excel in an increasingly competitive marketplace by improving decision making, enhancing customer interactions, supporting remote workers, and streamlining their processes. To showcase knowledge management solution providers that are imbuing their offerings with intelligence and automation, KMWorld created the AI 50: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management.”

“Franz Inc. has a rich, innovative Artificial Intelligence history and we are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in delivering scalable AI Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “We are seeing demand for Intelligent Data Fabrics take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for Data Fabric solutions.  AllegroGraph 7 with FedShard uniquely provides companies with the foundational environment for delivering Graph based AI solutions with the ability to continually enrich and contextualize the understanding of data.”

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AllegroGraph with FedShard driving growth for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Solutions

Lafayette, California, June 15, 2021 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named to Database Trends and Applications – 100 Companies that Mater Most in Data. Underscoring Franz’s technology leadership in Data Management, the company’s Knowledge Graph Platform, AllegroGraph, was relied upon for market research in leading analyst reports, including Forrester’s Now Tech: Multimodel Data Platforms, Q1 2021 and the Gartner Case Study: Entity-Event Knowledge Graph for Powering AI Solutions (Montefiore).

“The past 15 months have provided an object lesson for all organizations in the importance of being agile and moving swiftly to address new challenges and opportunities. If companies were not dealing with enough already with burgeoning data volumes, expanding regulatory mandates, and new data security concerns, the ongoing pandemic added to the pressure and created heightened urgency for real-time, data-driven insights as well as more ubiquitous data access,” stated DBTA Group Publisher Tom Hogan, Jr. “Spanning a spectrum of approaches, the DBTA 100 showcases forward-looking companies that are improving and expanding upon existing technologies and processes to help their customers use data more effectively.”

“Franz Inc. has a rich, innovative history and we are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in delivering scalable Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “In the past year, we have seen demand for Intelligent Data Fabrics take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for Enterprise-Wide Data Fabrics.   AllegroGraph 7 with FedShard, uniquely provides companies with the foundational environment for delivering Data Fabric solutions with the ability to continually enrich and contextualize the understanding of data.”

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Franz CEO and SmartLogic CEO to Present:

“How Enterprise Knowledge Graphs Solve Today’s Information Challenges”

Lafayette, California, May 24, 2021 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, and Smartlogic, the leader in Semantic AI technology, today announced a collaboration aimed to help large enterprises accelerate the timeframe to deploy highly-scalable, distributed Semantic Knowledge Graph solutions. The Franz Inc. and Smartlogic combination provides organizations with end-to-end technology along with the expertise to quickly create enterprise-scale Semantic Knowledge Graphs, which serve as the underpinning for Artificial Intelligence applications.

During an upcoming webinar on May 26, Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc.; Jeremy Bentley, CEO and Founder of Smartlogic; and Dan McCreary, Distinguished Engineer, AI at Optum; will discuss how Enterprise Knowledge Graphs address today’s biggest business challenge – to process real-time sources of information and retrieve knowledge from data stored throughout the enterprise and beyond.

Join this informative discussion to learn about the technologies necessary to address this challenge, including Semantic Graph database technology, Semantic AI, Open Linked Data and other technology standards. Register today for the Webinar, which will be held on Wednesday, May 26, 2021 at 11:00AM Eastern Time.

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2021 MultiModel Data Platform Analyst Report and Entity-Event Knowledge Graph Case Study Showcase Franz’s Unique Knowledge Graph Technology

Lafayette, California, March 22, 2021 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced it has been named a KMWorld 100 Company that Matters in Knowledge Management. Underscoring Franz’s technology leadership in Knowledge Management, the company’s Knowledge Graph Platform, AllegroGraph, was relied upon for market research in leading analyst reports, including Forrester’s Now Tech: Multimodel Data Platforms, Q1 2021 and the Gartner Case Study: Entity-Event Knowledge Graph for Powering AI Solutions (Montefiore).

“Flexibility, agility and the ability to pivot are attributes that have become critical to forward-thinking companies—and that is particularly the case now,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher at KMWorld. “Successful organizations don’t want to merely survive; they want to dominate their market sectors. But to do that, they need the right tools and products. Amidst the dramatic changes taking place today, innovative organizations are seeking new approaches to improve their processes. The 2021 KMWorld 100 is a list of leading-edge Knowledge Management companies that are helping their customers to expand access to information, leverage new opportunities, and accelerate growth.”

“We are honored to be recognized again by KMWorld as a leader in the Knowledge Management industry,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “Organizations across a range of industries are realizing the critical role that Knowledge Graphs play in creating rich, yet flexible enterprise data fabrics and AI-driven applications. In just the past couple of years, we have helped our customers create large-scale, multimodel and innovative knowledge graph solutions for diverse use cases, such as healthcare real-time AI decision support, NLP 360 customer intelligence with real-time agent support, and social network data privacy compliance.”

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Customers Gain 64-bit Performance, Simple Installation,Flexible Configuration and Enterprise Reliability

Lafayette, California, February 16, 2021 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced Allegro NFS Server 7.0 for Windowsâ with 64-bit performance and support for all current versions of the Windows operating system. Allegro NFS Server 7.0 delivers a high performance, easy-to-install and reliable solution for small and large enterprise-wide deployments.

“Allegro NFS was inspired by customer demand for an NFS server for Windows that was simple to install and run – without getting bogged down with complex configuration issues,” said Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “Over the years, we have continued to deliver on simplicity and efficiency for NFS for Windows. This new 64-bit version offers companies faster performance with the streamlined set-up, flexibility and high reliability that enterprise companies have come to expect from Allegro NFS.”

Network File System (NFS) is a distributed file system protocol developed to allow a user on a client computer to access files over a computer network much like local storage is accessed. Allegro NFS was originally developed for Franz’s internal purposes due to our dissatisfaction with free and commercial NFS Servers available on the market and the incredible technical difficulties faced in configuring them on Windows. Since 2002, Allegro NFS has become a standard for many Fortune 500 companies who want reliable and easy-to-configure access to Windows from NFS clients.

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Distributed FedShard Queries Improved 10X. New SPARQL*, RDF* and SHACL Features Added.

Lafayette, Calif., February 8, 2021 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for AI Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced AllegroGraph 7.1, which provides optimizations for deeply complex queries across FedShard™ deployments – making complex reasoning up to 10X faster.  AllegroGraph with FedShard offers a breakthrough solution that allows infinite data integration through a patented approach unifying all data and siloed knowledge into an Entity-Event Knowledge Graph solution for Enterprise scale analytics. AllegroGraph’s unique capabilities drive 360-degree insights and enable complex reasoning across enterprise-wide Knowledge Fabrics in Healthcare, Media, Smart Call Centers, Pharmaceuticals, Financial and much more.

“The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence has resulted in the need for increasingly complex queries over more data,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “AllegroGraph 7.1 addresses two of the most daunting challenges in AI – continuous data integration and the ability to query across all the data. With this new version of AllegroGraph, organizations can create Data Fabrics underpinned by AI Knowledge Graphs that take advantage of the infinite data integration capabilities possible with our FedShard technology and the ability to query across all the data – both sharded and unsharded – delivering holistic insights instantaneously.”

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January 4, 2021  – Digital.com, a leading independent review website for small business online tools, products, and services, has announced the best database management software of 2021. The top solutions were selected based on key features and customer feedback.

Experts at Digital.com evaluated platforms with multiple deployment options, such as web-based, cloud-based or SaaS. Each platform was required to back up and recover information periodically to help prevent data loss. Additional qualifications include reporting tools to monitor performance and improve customer service.

“Database management systems are essential for many industries, including banking, manufacturing, and sales,” says Josephine Miller, PR Manager of Digital.com. “This guide was developed to help small businesses identify must-have features, pricing, and the pros and cons.”

Franz’s AllegroGraph was identified as one of the best database management software products of 2021.

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AllegroGraph receives numerous industry awards and recognition for 2020

Lafayette, Calif., December 15, 2020 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced that AllegroGraph has been named a Trend Setting Product in Data and Information Management by Database Trends and Applications (DBTA).  In 2020, AllegroGraph has received numerous industry awards and independent analyst firms have positioned AllegroGraph 7 as a Champion and Strong Performer.

“Data management and integration demands continue to increase as organizations are faced with more data flowing in from a greater variety sources than ever before,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher at DBTA.  “To help make the process of identifying useful products and services easier, each year Database Trends and Applications magazine presents a list of Trend-Setting Products. These products, platforms, and services range from widely accepted offerings that continue to evolve to meet the needs of their loyal constituents to breakthrough technologies that are in the early stages of adoption. However, the common denominator for all is that they represent a commitment to innovation and seek to provide organizations with tools to address changing market requirements.”

“We are honored to be recognized again by DBTA as a trend setter in data management,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “Organizations across a range of industries are realizing the critical role that Knowledge Graphs play in creating rich, yet flexible enterprise data fabrics and AI-driven applications. In just the past couple of years, we have helped our customers create large-scale, multimodel and innovative knowledge graph solutions for diverse use cases, such as healthcare real-time AI decision support, NLP 360 customer intelligence with real-time agent support, and social network data privacy compliance.”

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AllegroGraph Positioned as a Champion and Strong Performer by Leading Analyst Firms and Acknowledged for Graph Innovation

Lafayette, Calif., December 9, 2020 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced that independent analyst firms have positioned AllegroGraph 7 as a Champion and Strong Performer. AllegroGraph 7 has also secured industry awards from leading technology news organizations and been recognized for technical innovation from large enterprise customers.

During 2020, AllegroGraph and Franz were recognized by the following industry analysts and technology media.

* Franz was positioned as a Strong Performer in the first Forrester Wave™: Graph Database Platforms 2020, Q4.

* Bloor Research positioned AllegroGraph as a Champion in the 2020 Bloor Research Graph Database report, which recognized AllegroGraph as a multi-model RDF database.

* KMWorld named Franz an AI 50: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management.

* Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) named Franz a Big Data 50—Company Driving Innovation in 2020.

* AllegroGraph was a KMWorld 2020 Trend Setting Product, as a noteworthy solution transforming information into insight.

* Franz CEO Dr. Jans Aasman was featured as an expert in The Knowledge Graph Cookbook, which was released April 22, 2020 and explains why and how to build Knowledge Graphs that help enterprises use data to innovate, create value and increase revenue.

* Franz was recognized as one of the 100 Companies That Matter Most in Data by Database Trends and Applications (DBTA).

* KMWorld’s 100 Companies that matter in Knowledge Management named Franz Inc. to this exclusive list.

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Lafayette, Calif., September 14, 2020 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced that it has been named to The Big Data 50 – Companies Driving Innovation in 2020 by Database Trends and Applications.  The COVID-19 crisis has presented some new hurdles—but they are ones that many innovative companies are actively working to overcome. Forward-looking companies aren’t sitting the year out waiting for the business climate to improve. They are actively seeking ways to expand their reach and take advantage of new opportunities.

“Whether the goal is surfacing timely insights through better analytics, streamlining processes using automation, improving security and governance with better controls, taking advantage of evolving opportunities using cloud services—or any of a range of other possibilities—leading IT companies are continually helping to make these plans a reality for their customers,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher at Big Data Quarterly. “To help organizations navigate through a rapidly changing big data ecosystem, Big Data Quarterly has developed the Big Data 50, a list of companies driving innovation.””

“Franz Inc. has a rich, innovative history and we are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in delivering key innovations with our Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “In the past year, we have seen demand for Intelligent Data Fabrics take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for Enterprise Wide Data Fabrics.    Our recent launch of AllegroGraph 7 with FedShard, a breakthrough that allows infinite data integration to unify all data and siloed knowledge into an Entity-Event Knowledge Graph solution will catalyze Data Fabric deployments across the Enterprise.”

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Powering Intelligent Knowledge Graph Solutions

Lafayette, Calif., September 6, 2020 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced that it has been named a 2020 Trend Setting Product by KMWorld.  The annual list is designed to spread the word about new and noteworthy solutions that are helping to improve organizational systems. KMWorld compiles this list of Trend-Setting Product offerings that are pushing the limits of what is possible with knowledge management.

“The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the way organizations and individuals work, as well as how they support and communicate with customers and partners – making it clear that knowledge management is essential, now more than ever. By transforming data into information and then getting it to the people who need it, the resulting knowledge can be used for decisions that can make a significant impact,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher at KMWorld. “To help spread the word about noteworthy products that are helping to improve organizational systems, KMWorld created the Trend-Setting Products list.”

“Franz Inc. is continually innovating and we are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in setting the pace for Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “In the past year, we have seen demand for Intelligent Data Fabrics take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for Enterprise Wide Data Fabrics.    Our recent launch of AllegroGraph 7 with FedShard, a breakthrough that allows infinite data integration to unify all data and siloed knowledge into an Entity-Event Knowledge Graph solution will catalyze Data Fabric deployments across the Enterprise.”

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AllegroGraph Powering Intelligent Knowledge Graph Solutions

Lafayette, Calif., August 18, 2020 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced that it has been named to The AI 50 – Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management Companies 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 as related capabilities such as machine learning, natural language processing, and text analytics.   This list recognizes companies based on their presence, execution, vision and innovation in delivering products and services to the marketplace.

“As the drive for digital transformation becomes an imperative for companies seeking to compete and succeed in all industry sectors, intelligent tools and services are being leveraged to enable speed, insight, and accuracy,” said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher at KMWorld.  “To showcase organizations that are incorporating AI and an assortment of related technologies—including natural language processing, machine learning, and computer vision—into their offerings, KMWorld created the “AI 50: The Companies Empowering Intelligent Knowledge Management.”

“Franz Inc. has a rich history in AI and we are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in delivering AI Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc.

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Franz Inc. Acknowledged as a Leader for Knowledge Graph Solutions

 Lafayette, Calif., June 23, 2020 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced that it has been named to The 100 Companies That Matter in Data by Database Trends and Applications.  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 as related capabilities such as machine learning, natural language processing, and text analytics.   This list recognizes companies based on their presence, execution, vision and innovation in delivering products and services to the marketplace.

“We’re excited to announce our eighth annual list, as the industry continues to grow and evolve,” remarked Thomas Hogan, Group Publisher at Database Trends and Applications. “Now, more than ever, businesses are looking for ways transform how they operate and deliver value to customers with greater agility, efficiency and innovation. This list seeks to highlight those companies that have been successful in establishing themselves as unique resources for data professionals and stakeholders.”

“We are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in delivering Enterprise Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “In the past year, we have seen demand for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for artificial intelligence applications and predictive analytics.  Our recent launch of AllegroGraph 7 with FedShard, a breakthrough that allows infinite data integration to unify all data and siloed knowledge into an Entity-Event Knowledge Graph solution will catalyze Knowledge Graph deployments across the Enterprise.”

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FedShard™,  Entity-Event Data Modeling and Browser-based Gruff Drives Infinite Data Integration, Holistic Insights and Complex Reasoning

OAKLAND, Calif., April 29, 2020 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced AllegroGraph 7, a breakthrough solution that allows infinite data integration through a patented approach unifying all data and siloed knowledge into an Entity-Event Knowledge Graph solution that can support massive big data analytics. AllegroGraph 7 utilizes unique federated sharding capabilities that drive 360-degree insights and enable complex reasoning across a distributed Knowledge Graph. Hidden connections in data are revealed to AllegroGraph 7 users through a new browser-based version of Gruff, an advanced visualization and graphical query builder.

“Large enterprises have Knowledge Graphs that are so big that no amount of vertical scaling will work,” said Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “When these organizations want to conduct new big data analytics, it requires a new effort by the IT department to gather semi-usable data for the data scientists, which can cost millions of dollars, waste valuable time and still not provide a holistic data architecture for querying across all data. ETL, Data Lakes and Property Graphs only exacerbate the problem by creating new data silos. AllegroGraph 7 takes a holistic approach to mixed data, unifying all enterprise data with domain knowledge, including taxonomies, ontologies and industry knowledge – making queries across all data possible, while simplifying and accelerating feature extraction for machine learning.”

To support ubiquitous AI, a Knowledge Graph system will have to fuse and integrate data, not just in representation, but in context (ontologies, metadata, domain knowledge, terminology systems), and time (temporal relationships between components of data). The rich functional and contextual integration of multi-modal, predictive modeling and artificial intelligence is what distinguishes AllegroGraph 7 as a modern, scalable, enterprise analytic platform. AllegroGraph 7 is the first big temporal knowledge graph technology that encapsulates a novel entity-event model natively integrated with domain ontologies and metadata, and dynamic ways of setting the analytics lens on all entities in the system (patient, person, devices, transactions, events, and operations) as prime objects that can be the focus of an analytic (AI, ML, DL) process.

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High Performance Data Visualizations Accelerate Graph Search and Query Building —    Driving Data Discoveries for Banks, Healthcare Providers and Enterprises Globally

OAKLAND, Calif., May 12, 2020 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced Gruff 8, a browser-based graph visualization software tool for exploring and discovering connections within enterprise Knowledge Graphs. Gruff 8, which has been integrated into AllegroGraph 7, enables users to visually build queries and visualize connections between data without writing code, which speeds discoveries and enhances the ability to uncover hidden connections within data.

“By augmenting Knowledge Graphs with visualizations, users can determine insights that would otherwise elude them,” said Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “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.”

“Few tools exist that can quickly turn arbitrary RDF graph pattern matches into clear visualizable results,” said Michael Pool, Global Head of Semantic Modeling and Engineering, Senior Director at BNY Mellon Bank. “Gruff is invaluable in turning our knowledge graph data into useful and actionable analytic insights.”

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Franz Inc. Acknowledged as a Leader for Knowledge Graph Solutions

OAKLAND, Calif., April 2, 2020 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced 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 as related capabilities such as machine learning, natural language processing, and text analytics.

“Knowledge management software and services providers are embracing a fresh wave of technological innovation to address heightened expectations—among both customers and employees—for the right information to be delivered to the right people at the right time, said Tom Hogan, Group Publisher at KMWorld. “To showcase organizations that are advancing their products and capabilities to meet changing requirements, KMWorld created the annual list of 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management.”

“We are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in delivering Enterprise Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “In the past year, we have seen demand for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for artificial intelligence applications and predictive analytics.   Our AllegroGraph Knowledge Graph Platform Solution offers a unique comprehensive approach for helping companies accelerate the creation of Enterprise Knowledge Graphs that deliver new value to their organization.”

Gartner recently stated, “The application of graph processing and graph databases will grow at 100 percent annually through 2022 to continuously accelerate data preparation and enable more complex and adaptive data science.” To that end, Gartner named graph analytics as a “Top 10 Data and Analytics Trend” to solve critical business priorities. (Source: Gartner, Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends, November 5, 2019).

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Franz’s Unique Combination of Graph and Document Technologies, Scalability, Ontology Design and AI Data Science Expertise Accelerates Knowledge Graph Creation

OAKLAND, Calif., February 20, 2020 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced that leading industry analyst firms and top data management publishing firms have recognized Franz and the company’s flagship product AllegroGraph as Knowledge Graph solution leader. Fortune 500 companies rely on Franz’s technology expertise as the Graph Database and Knowledge Graph solution market is positioned to explode.

Gartner recently stated, “The application of graph processing and graph databases will grow at 100 percent annually through 2022 to continuously accelerate data preparation and enable more complex and adaptive data science.” To that end, Gartner named graph analytics as a “Top 10 Data and Analytics Trend” to solve critical business priorities. (Source: Gartner, Top 10 Data and Analytics Trends, November 5, 2019).

“Graph databases and knowledge graphs are now viewed as a must-have by enterprises serious about leveraging AI and predictive analytics within their organization,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “We are working with organizations across a broad range of industries to deploy large-scale, high-performance Semantic knowledge graphs that serve as the foundation for AI-driven applications for personalized medicine, predictive call centers, digital twins for IoT, predictive supply chain management and domain-specific Q&A applications – just to name a few.”

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Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO will present Franz’s Knowledge Graph Platform and “Creating Explainable AI with Rules”

OAKLAND, Calif., January 10, 2020 — 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 will be presenting at The Global Graph Summit 2020 on January 25^th in Austin, Texas.

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 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 is perhaps nowhere truer than in establishing explainable AI, which is central to the long-term business value of AI front-office use cases.”

“The fundamental necessity for explainable AI spans regulatory compliance, fairness, transparency, ethics and lack of bias — although this is not a complete list. For example, the effectiveness of counteracting financial crimes and increasing revenues from advanced machine learning predictions in financial services could be greatly enhanced by deploying more accurate deep learning models. But all of this would be arduous to explain to regulators. Translating those results into explainable rules is the basis for more widespread AI deployments producing a more meaningful impact on society.”

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Franz Inc. Acknowledged as Trend Setter in Knowledge Graph Solutions

OAKLAND, Calif., January 9, 2020 — 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 The 2020 Trend Setting Products in Data Management by Database Trends and Applications (DBTA).

The DBTA Trend-Setting Products for 2020 recognizes products in the marketplace that are both innovative and effective in helping customers address evolving challenges and opportunities.

“The world of data management and analytics continues to evolve rapidly with new technologies and strategies,” remarked Thomas Hogan, Group Publisher of Database Trends and Applications. “Cutting through the hype and identifying products that deliver results in the real world is more important than ever. This list highlights products that are truly transformative in bringing greater agility, efficiency and innovation to market.”

“We are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in delivering Enterprise Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “In the past year, we have seen demand for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for artificial intelligence applications and predictive analytics.   Our AllegroGraph Knowledge Graph Platform Solution offers a unique comprehensive approach for helping companies accelerate the creation of Enterprise Knowledge Graphs that deliver new value to their organization.”

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Franz Inc. Acknowledged as a Leader in Knowledge Graph Solutions

OAKLAND, Calif., September 18, 2019 — 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)  – Big Data 50 – Companies Driving Innovation in 2019.

A new generation of tools is making it possible to leverage the wealth of data flowing into organizations from a previously unimaginable range of data sources. Machine learning, AI, Spark, and object storage are just some of the next-generation approaches gaining traction, according to recent surveys conducted by Unisphere Research, a division of Information Today, Inc.

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 efficiency, agility and innovation,” remarked Thomas Hogan, Group Publisher at Database Trends and Applications. “This list seeks to highlight those companies that are really driving innovation and serve as a guide to businesses navigating the rapidly changing big data landscape.”

“We are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in delivering Enterprise Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “In the past year, we have seen demand for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for artificial intelligence applications and predictive analytics.   Our AllegroGraph Knowledge Graph Platform Solution offers a unique comprehensive approach for helping companies accelerate the creation of Enterprise Knowledge Graphs that deliver new value to their organization.”

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Franz’s Knowledge Graph Platform Delivers Leading-edge Customer 360 Insights

OAKLAND, Calif., August 14, 2019 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph Solutions, today announced its flagship product AllegroGraph now supports Shapes Constraint Language (SHACL), a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specification for validating graph-based data against a set of conditions. Franz’s Knowledge Graph solutions with SHACL improves the ability  to validate data and applications from independently maintained sources within an overall system that can interoperate reliably. 

“Enterprise systems are increasingly complex, often requiring data and software components to be accessed and maintained by different departments or other companies,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz, Inc. “This complexity often becomes an organization’s biggest challenge as changing data fields and adding new applications rapidly grow in order to meet the business demands for increased customer insights.  Adding SHACL to AllegroGraph helps our customers simplify the complexity of enterprise systems through the ability to loosely combine independent elements, while allowing the overall system to function smoothly.”

AllegroGraph v6.6 includes a SHACL validation engine that confirms whether data is conforming to the desired requirements. SHACL provides a way for a Data Graph to specify the Shapes Graph that should be used for validation and describes how a given shape is linked to targets in the data. The addition of SHACL is just the most recent enhancement to AllegroGraph, which continues to showcase innovation at the forefront of the graph database market by becoming the first multi-model semantic graph and document database.

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OAKLAND, Calif., July 1, 2019  – 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 to grow and evolve,” remarked Thomas Hogan, Group Publisher at Database Trends and Applications. “Today, more than ever, businesses are looking to increase their efficiency, agility and ability to innovate by managing and leveraging data in new and novel ways. This list seeks to highlight those companies that have been successful in establishing themselves as unique resources for data professionals and stakeholders.”

“We are honored to receive this acknowledgement for our efforts in delivering Enterprise Knowledge Graph Solutions,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc.

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Unique Combination of Graph and Document Technologies, Ontology Design and AI Data Science Expertise Accelerates Knowledge Graph Creation

OAKLAND, Calif., June 11, 2019 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Graph and Document Database technology for Knowledge Graphs, today announced the AllegroGraph Knowledge Graph Platform Solution, which provides companies with the technology, methodologies and expertise necessary to create semantic domain-specific Knowledge Graphs that transform data into knowledge and serve as the foundation for artificial intelligence applications.

“In the past year, we have seen demand for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs take off across industries along with recognition from top technology analyst firms that Knowledge Graphs provide the critical foundation for artificial intelligence applications and predictive analytics,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “But we have also found that companies need both the technology and expertise to build industrial strength Knowledge Graph solutions. Our AllegroGraph Knowledge Graph Platform Solution offers a unique comprehensive approach for helping companies accelerate the creation of Enterprise Knowledge Graphs that deliver new value to their organization.”

Franz’s Knowledge Graph Platform Solution includes both technology and services for building enterprise-class Knowledge Graphs based on best-of-class tools, products, knowledge, skills and experience. At the core of the solution is Franz’s graph database technology, AllegroGraph, which is utilized by dozens of the top F500 companies worldwide and enables businesses to extract sophisticated decision insights and predictive analytics from highly complex, distributed data that cannot be uncovered with conventional databases.

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Semantically Linking Earth Observation Data Makes it FAIR for the Global Community of Geoscientists

OAKLAND, Calif., April 22, 2019 — In celebration of Earth Day, Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graphs, today recognized how AllegroGraph, its semantic knowledge graph technology, is playing an essential part in making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) for the geoscience community. Since the current understanding of earth science processes is largely based on earth observation and numerical model data, making this data FAIR for all geoscientists and technologists is critical to facilitate future knowledge discovery about planet Earth.

Collecting, storing, monitoring and analyzing data from the core of the Earth up to the atmosphere provides critical knowledge about the planet and how living things interact with it. Scientists and technologists gather information about Earth from a range of sources, including:  satellites, air- ground- and ocean-based sensors, physical sample data, etc., which are all recorded at a variety of temporal and spatial resolutions and need to be represented on the web for the global scientific community to access and use. AllegroGraph’s unique semantic graph capabilities allow diverse and complex data sources to be easily integrated with full search and cross-dataset queries possible.

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Run Graph Queries Across JSON Documents, CSV Files, Semantic Metadata and Unstructured Text 

OAKLAND, Calif., March 4, 2019 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graphs, today announced AllegroGraph v6.5 , the first multi-model semantic graph database to support the ingestion of JSON and JSON-LD documents, comma separated value (CSV) files and RDF data. AllegroGraph 6.5 makes it possible to automatically link structured RDF data to information within JSON documents based on semantic concepts, allowing users to perform graph analytics across linked data within databases, document stores and CSV files.

Traditional document databases have excelled at storing documents at scale, but are not designed for linking data to other documents in the same database or in different databases. AllegroGraph 6.5 delivers the unique power to define many different types of documents that can all point to each other using standards-based semantic linking and allow users to run SPARQL queries, conduct graph searches, execute complex joins and even apply Prolog AI rules directly on a diverse sea of objects.

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Leading Companies Tap Franz’s Knowledge Graph Expertise to Deliver Insights with AI Technologies

OAKLAND, Calif. January 30, 2019 — Franz Inc. is an innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology with expert knowledge in developing and deploying Knowledge Graph solutions. Franz’s Knowledge Graph services combine broad experience, domain expertise, best practices, tools, methodologies, assets and proven delivery methods with a pragmatic approach to planning and design.

Gartner recently identified Knowledge Graphs as a key new technology in both their Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence and Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2018 states, “The rising role of content and context for delivering insights with AI technologies, as well as recent knowledge graph offerings for AI applications have pulled knowledge graphs to the surface.”

“The ability to rapidly integrate new knowledge is the crux of a Knowledge Graph and depends entirely on semantic technologies,” said Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz. “A Knowledge Graph represents a knowledge domain and connects things of different types in a systematic way by encoding knowledge arranged in a network of nodes and links rather than tables of rows and columns. People and machines can benefit from Knowledge Graphs by dynamically growing semantic network of facts about things and can use it for data integration, knowledge discovery, and in-depth analyses.”

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AllegroGraph Noted as a Graph Database to Consider for Semantic Technology Solutions

OAKLAND, Calif., January 15, 2019

Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graphs, today announced that Gartner featured AllegroGraph in a recent report that explains the importance of using semantic technology to drive business value out of data. AllegroGraph is a Semantic Graph Database that enables organizations to gain sophisticated insights and predictive analysis from highly complex, distributed data – exceeding the possibilities of conventional databases and laying the foundation for Knowledge Graphs and Artificial Intelligence solutions.

In the report, Gartner Analyst Guido De Simoni says, “Unprecedented levels of data scale and distribution are making it almost impossible for organizations to effectively exploit their data assets. Data and analytics leaders must adopt a semantic approach to their enterprise data assets or face losing the battle for competitive advantage.” (Source: Gartner, How to Use Semantics to Drive the Business Value of Your Data, Guido De Simoni, November 27, 2018.)

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Leading Semantic Graph Database and Artificial Intelligence Provider Recognized for Delivering Business Value

OAKLAND, Calif. — January 7, 2019 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graph applications, today announced that it has been named to the Database Trends and Applications – 2019 Trend-Setting Products.

“You can call it the new oil, or even the new electricity, but however it is described, it’s clear that data is now recognized as an essential fuel flowing through organizations and enabling never before seen opportunities. However, data cannot simply be collected; it must be handled with care in order to fulfill the promise of faster, smarter decision making.

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[Oakland, CA November 1, 2018] — Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, AllegroGraph, for Knowledge Graphs, has been accepted into Forbes Technology Council, an invitation-only community for world-class CIOs, CTOs, and technology executives.

Dr. Aasman was vetted and selected by a review committee based on the depth and diversity of his experience. Criteria for acceptance include a track record of successfully impacting business growth metrics, as well as personal and professional achievements and honors.

“We are honored to welcome Dr. Aasman into the community,” said Scott Gerber, founder of Forbes Councils, the collective that includes Forbes Technology Council. “Our mission with Forbes Councils is to bring together proven leaders from every industry, creating a curated, social capital-driven network that helps every member grow professionally and make an even greater impact on the business world.”

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OAKLAND, Calif. and VIENNA, Austria – September 10, 2018— Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, AllegroGraph, for Knowledge Graphs, and Semantic Web Company, developers of the PoolParty Semantic Suite and leading provider of Semantic AI solutions, today announced a partnership to develop the Noam Chomsky Knowledge Graph. This project is the first aimed at connecting all the works from a public figure and turning the linked information into a searchable and retrievable resource for the public.

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April 20, 2018 – Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the Enterprise Data World Conference in San Diego, CA Tuesday, April 24th, 3:30 PM. The 22nd annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on data management in the world.

Dr. Aasman’s talk: Taking Graphs to the Next Level with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Graphs and knowledge management have gained significant visibility with the rebirth of artificial intelligence and emergence of cognitive computing. By combining artificial intelligence, big data, graph databases, and dynamic visualizations, we will discuss deploying graph based AI applications as a means to help predict future events across numerous types of industries.

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AllegroGraph Triple Attributes Deliver Hardened Data Security within the Flexible Environment of Graph Databases

OAKLAND, Calif. — December 6, 2017 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology – AllegroGraph, today announced that it has been named to The Silicon Review 50 Fastest Growing Tech Companies 2017 – Delivering Scalable Knowledge Graph solutions Franz Inc.

“The Silicon Review 50 Fastest Growing Tech Companies 2017 program identifies companies which are successful bringing more innovations to the IT and Business world than others, and winning a spot on this list indicates the company has distinguished itself from peers by proving itself more valuable in terms of innovation, service quality, vast customer base, and market position,” said Sreshtha Banerjee, Editor-in-Chief of The Silicon Review Magazine. The publication has selected ‘Franz Inc.’ based on its product/service innovation, customer retention health, financial status, and moreover, the ability to predict market trends.

AllegroGraph is a database technology that enables businesses to extract sophisticated decision insights and predictive analytics from highly complex, distributed data that cannot be uncovered with conventional databases. Unlike traditional relational databases or other NoSQL databases, AllegroGraph employs semantic graph technologies that process data with contextual and conceptual intelligence. AllegroGraph is able run queries of unprecedented complexity to support predictive analytics that help organizations make more informed, real-time decisions.

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AllegroGraph Triple Attributes Deliver Hardened Data Security within the Flexible Environment of Graph Databases

OAKLAND, Calif. — November 6, 2017 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graphs, today announced Triple Attributes for its Semantic Graph Database, AllegroGraph. This innovative feature for AllegroGraph provides the necessary power and flexibility to address high-security data environments such as HIPAA access controls, privacy rules for banks, and security models for policing, intelligence and government. AllegroGraph Triple Attributes for Security is easier to use and provides more expressiveness than security methods in relational databases or property graph databases, while avoiding performance degradations.

“Enterprises want the flexibility of graph databases, but they also want the security they have come to rely on with relational databases,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “Our new Triple Attributes gives organizations an elegant mechanism to implement the ultimate in graph database security.”

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OAKLAND, Calif. — February 4, 2013 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the Enterprise Data World Conference this April in San Diego, CA.  Enterprise Data World (EDW) is the business world’s most comprehensive educational event about data and information management. Over five days, EDW presents a diverse schedule of programming that addresses every level of proficiency, including keynotes, workshops, tutorials, case studies, and discussions. EDW provides a superior learning opportunity for Senior IT Executives, Modelers, and Architects to meet and brainstorm with peers about changes in the industry, new products and projects, and learn about every facet of the data world at a single conference.

What to do with the Social Networks in your Customer Data?

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OAKLAND, Calif. — September 15, 2017 — Franz Inc.’s Vice President of Corporate Development, Dr. Sheng-Chuan Wu, will be a speaker at the Analytics India Summit (CYPHER 2017) in Bangalore, September. CYPHER 2017 is the largest and most exciting analytics summit in India. CYPHER 2017 is sponsored by Analytics India Magazine (AIM) India’s no.1 platform on analytics, data science and big data, dedicated to passionately championing and promoting the ecosystem in India. Their aim is for the promotion and discussion of ideas and thoughts on Business Analytics from India perspective.

Dr. Wu’s talk, “The Real World of Data Analytics – Data Science beyond the Sandbox”

There are many naive views of data analytics. Chief among them is the gross underestimation of the effort required to prepare data for analysis (i.e., ETL and integration of data from heterogeneous sources).

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Leading Semantic Graph Database and Artificial Intelligence Provider Recognized for Delivering Business Value

OAKLAND, Calif. — September 13, 2017 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology – AllegroGraph, today announced that it has been named to the Database Trends and Applications Big Data 50 – ‘Companies Driving Innovation in 2017’.

The world of data management is constantly changing. Evaluating new and disruptive technologies, as well as when and where they may prove useful, is the challenge. Against the rapidly evolving big data scene, this year, Big Data Quarterly presents the newest “Big Data 50,” an annual list of forward-thinking companies that are working to expand what’s possible in terms of collecting, storing, and deriving value from data.

AllegroGraph is a database technology that enables businesses to extract sophisticated decision insights and predictive analytics from highly complex, distributed data that cannot be uncovered with conventional databases. Unlike traditional relational databases or other NoSQL databases, AllegroGraph employs semantic graph technologies that process data with contextual and conceptual intelligence. AllegroGraph is able run queries of unprecedented complexity to support predictive analytics that help organizations make more informed, real-time decisions.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — July 25, 2017 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graphs, today announced Gruff v7.0, the 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. The new time slider feature speeds discovery and enhances the ability to uncover hidden relationships within time based data.

“Gruff’s new ‘Time Machine’ feature provides users an important capability to explore temporal connections in your data,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “Users can see how relationships are created over time and are able to replay the evolving graph for new temporal based insights.”

Gruff v7.0 produces dynamic data visualizations that organize connections between data in views that are driven by the user. This visual flexibility can instantly unveil new discoveries and knowledge that turn complex data into actionable business insights. Gruff was developed by Franz to address Graph Search in large data sets and empower users to intelligently explore graphs in multiple views including:

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OAKLAND, Calif. — July 12, 2017 — Intel recently launched its new Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, providing businesses with breakthrough performance to handle compute-hungry tasks including real-time analytics, virtualized infrastructure and high-performance computing. Their launch marks the greatest set of data center and network processor advancements in a decade.

Montefiore Health System has deployed a data analytics platform running on these new Intel® Xeon® processors, a solution that analyzes varied and vast amounts of raw data in near-real time to help clinicians identify optimal treatment plans for patients. The solution provides a breadth of data management technologies including Franz AllegroGraph’s Semantic Data Lake, predictive analytics, machine learning, and more. AllegroGraph allows Montefiore to extract sophisticated decision insights and predictive analytics from highly complex, distributed data in a way that is not possible using conventional databases. These predictive analytics are making big data more meaningful. Franz CEO Dr. Jans Aasman, and Dr. Parsa Mirhaji, director of Clinical Research Informatics at Montefiore and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine joined Intel at their product launch event.

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Leading Semantic Graph Database and Artificial Intelligence Provider Recognized for Delivering Business Value

OAKLAND, Calif. — June 19, 2017 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, today announced that it has been named to the Database Trends and Applications (DBTA)100 – ‘The Companies That Matter Most in Data’.

The world of data management is constantly changing. The DBTA 100 recognizes vendors who are evolving with the times and leading the charge to address new opportunities and requirements. Embracing the old and new, well-established and cutting edge, this fifth annual DBTA 100 list spotlights the companies that are dealing with evolving market demands through innovation in software, services, and hardware. The list includes long-established IT companies and newer upstarts anxious to shake up the data management space. Each year, the DBTA 100 presents “View from the Top” articles by company executives explaining how their organizations are uniquely addressing the data challenges of today—and tomorrow.

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Analysts View Gruff as Key Tool for Efficient Graph Query Development

OAKLAND, Calif. — March 27, 2017 — Franz Inc., the leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, today announced that its flagship product, AllegroGraph, has been named a ‘Champion’ by Bloor Research in its recent Graph Database Market Update report.

“AllegroGraph is the highest ranked product in its class, and, thanks to Gruff, it was rated as the easiest product to use.” – Bloor Research

AllegroGraph is a database technology that enables businesses to extract sophisticated decision insights and predictive analytics from highly complex, distributed data that cannot be uncovered with conventional databases. Unlike traditional databases or NoSQL databases, AllegroGraph employs semantic graph technologies that process data with contextual and conceptual intelligence. AllegroGraph is able run queries of unprecedented complexity to support predictive analytics that help organizations make more informed, real-time decisions.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — February 6, 2017 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the Enterprise Data World Conferencein Atlanta, GA Tuesday, April 4th, 3:45 PM. The 21st annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on data management in the world.

Dr. Aasman’s talk: Developing an Advanced Analytics Capability on an Enterprise Data Lake

Enabling the Data Lake for scalable and extensible analytics with the ultimate goal of developing a learning system is rapidly taking shape for the Enterprise. Until recently big data was focused on processing massive amounts of simple, flat data. But now, there is a requirement to fuse complex data to create more intelligent analytic frameworks to achieve better business decisions. Adding advanced analytics to a Data Lake to create a scalable knowledge-based analytics platform for pattern recognition, classification, predictive modeling, and simulations is rapidly developing with use cases in Fraud Detection, Healthcare, E-commerce, Intelligence, and more.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — February 1, 2017 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will be presenting at the TTI/Vanguard Data Big and Small Conference in San Francisco, California – February 16-17. His presentation topic will be on Semantic Graph Databases and Analytics. Information about the conference can be found here.

About TTI/Vangard

TTI/Vanguard is the advanced technology conference series for senior-level executives. We introduce, discuss, and evaluate emerging and breakthrough technologies on the two-to-five-year horizon. Through conferences, workshops, and field trips, experts offer perspectives on future technologies and their impact on organizations, infrastructures, policies, and society. The result is a framework for linking strategic technology planning to business success.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — January 11, 2017 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will be presenting and providing a tutorial at the Smart Data Conference in Redwood City, California – January 30-31. The Smart Data Conference is designed to accommodate all levels of technical understanding. It will bring together emerging disciplines that are focused on more intelligent information gathering and analysis.

Dr. Aasman’s tutorial on January 30 – Build Your Own Cognitive Computing Platform

Cognitive Computing Platforms are a growing phenomenon that have been shown to add significant value to the Enterprise. IBM’s Watson is just one of the more well known examples. The power of these platforms is that you not only base your enterprise decisions on what is in your structured enterprise data warehouse, but you also mine the unstructured data. In addition, the platform combines proprietary and public knowledge in the form of vocabularies, taxonomies, ontologies, and linked open data with a powerful layer of machine learning technologies. The resulting analytics are pushed back into the core knowledge corpus resulting in a learning system that continually tunes desired metrics.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — January 31, 2017 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology and Lead Semantics, a Big Data Analytics start-up delivering cloud based Advanced Analytics and Data Science, today announced their partnership to deliver Smart-Data Integrated Data Science.

“The integration of Lead Semantics’ Hiddime and AllegroGraph delivers new types of analytic outcomes and insights to provide ‘Smart Data’ for the Enterprise”, said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “AllegroGraph will bring knowledge integration to the Hiddime platform for one of a kind data science capabilities that will deliver unique value for each user.”

Hiddime is a cloud based Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics service. It is an easy to use Interactive Discovery and Exploratory Analytics tool (IDEA tool) for the frontline Business Managers and Domain Specialists, who are not necessarily IT experts. AllegroGraph underpins the business intelligence data warehouse and retrieval system. Hiddime with AllegroGraph as the semantic data backend enables easy yet exhaustive querying along with integration of data from external sources leading to faster realization of deeper analytics and insights.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — March 29, 2016 — Franz Inc.’s Vice President of Corporate Development, Dr. Sheng-Chuan Wu, will be a keynote speaker at the 14th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2016) this August in Phuket, Thailand. The PRICAI is a biennial international event which concentrates on AI theories, technologies and their applications in the areas of social and economic importance for countries in the Pacific Rim. The Program Committee invites technical papers on substantial, original, and unpublished research in all aspects of Artificial Intelligence. PRICAI-2016 aims to bring together a large and diverse community, which includes practitioners, researchers, educators, and users. This event aims to bring together many scholars, researchers and managers of various areas and industries for intellectual exchanges, research cooperation and professional development.

Dr. Wu’s talk, “Global Data Warming for AI Spring”

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Leading Semantic Graph Database and Artificial Intelligence Provider Recognized for Delivering Business Value

OAKLAND, Calif. — March 23, 2016 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, today announced that is has been named to KMWorld’s 2016 list of the ‘100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management’.

“Being named to our list of 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management is a prestigious designation because it represents the best in innovation, creativity and functionality,” says KMWorld Editor Sandra Haimila. “The 100 Companies offer solutions designed to help users and customers find what they need whenever and wherever they need it … and what they need is the ability to access, analyze and share crucial knowledge.”

“KMWorld recognizes the knowledge economy’s growth will be facilitated by easily combining disparate information enterprise wide,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “With the semantic flexibility of AllegroGraph, integrating knowledge bases is virtually effortless, since the data can remain in its original databases and database designers do not have to create a schema up front. In today’s data-driven environments, the ability to quickly analyze data from diverse sources, both public and private, is proving particularly useful to provide unique knowledge rich analytics.”

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Oakland, CA — March 10, 2015 — — Franz Inc. has been selected for the 2015 Best of Oakland Award in the Graph Database Technologies category by the Oakland Award Program.

Each year, the Oakland Award Program identifies companies that we believe have achieved exceptional marketing success in their business category. Interest in Graph Databases exploded in 2014, according to DB-engines.com. Franz Inc. is a leader in this sector and well positioned to capitalize on the momentum in this market going into 2015.

Various sources of information were gathered and analyzed to choose the winners in each category. The 2015 Oakland Award Program focuses on quality, not quantity. Winners are determined based on the information gathered both internally by the Oakland Award Program and data provided by third parties.

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AllegroGraph 5.0 Unveils New Multi-dimensional Indexing for Complex Location Aware Applications

OAKLAND, Calif. — February 9, 2015 — Franz Inc., the leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, today announced AllegroGraph 5.0 with unique multi-dimensional indexing capabilities. Data Scientists can think of these new multi-dimensional indices as similar to OLAP data cubes or HyperCubes but with the powerful dynamic data linking of a Graph Database.

AllegroGraph was the first Graph Database to offer advanced temporal and geospatial libraries. With this latest release AllegroGraph again leads the industry with multi-dimensional event based data processing for solutions across a diverse customer base including; healthcare, telecom, agriculture, financial and intelligence applications. Although the industries are diverse, AllegroGraph users are driven by a common need to better answer complex, real world questions which today require the fusion of data in many dimensions.

“Today’s leading companies have realized the incredible value locked up in their existing unstructured and structured data that they are unable to link together to make better business decision.” noted Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO, Franz Inc. “This realization is driving demand for new sophisticated event based analytics for use over diverse sources such as corporate email, documents, spreadsheets, relational databases, news feeds, social networks and much more.”

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Oakland, CA — February 2, 2015 — UC-Berkeley will receive IEEE Milestone recognition for their RISC Project on Feb 12, 2015. The UC-Berkeley RISC milestone plaque will be unveiled at 3:30 PM in the lobby on the 3rd floor of Soda Hall, Berkeley’s Computer Science building. Speakers will include IEEE 2015 President Howard Michel, Professor David Patterson, and several others.

UC-Berkeley students designed and built the first VLSI reduced instruction-set computer in 1981. The simplified instructions of RISC-I reduced the hardware for instruction decode and control, which enabled a flat 32-bit address space, a large set of registers, and pipelined execution. A good match to C programs and the Unix operating system, RISC-I influenced instruction sets widely used today, including those for game consoles, smartphones and tablets.

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Oakland, CA and McLean, VA — January 13, 2015 — Haystax Technology, Inc., and Franz Inc., announced a technology partnership that will enable Haystax to leverage Franz’s AllegroGraph technology for patented algorithms and sophisticated behavior models used in Haystax’s insider threat detection solutions. Haystax’s solutions, which are being rapidly adopted by the U.S. government and Fortune 500 companies, are more advanced than traditional rules-based and brute-force processing approaches in identifying the types of risks and the potential impact of their actions that individuals pose to an organization.

“Today’s leading companies understand that there is incredible value in accurately predicting risk,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz. “This realization is driving demand for sophisticated analytics using semantic graph databases that can ingest and enrich data from diverse sources – such as corporate email, documents, spreadsheets, customer support logs, and social networks – in order to provide relevant, timely and actionable information.”

Graph databases, like AllegroGraph, are one of the new technologies encouraging a rapid re-thinking of the analytics within the social media landscape. By tracking relationships – in a network of people, organizations, events and data – and applying reasoning (inference) to the data and connections, powerful new answers and insights are enabled.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — November 17, 2014 — Franz, Inc. and the U.S. Census Bureau announce the licensing of AllegroGraph. Graph databases, like AllegroGraph, are one of the new technologies encouraging a rapid re-thinking of the analytics landscape. By tracking relationships – in a network of people, organizations, events and data – and applying reasoning (inference) to the data and connections, powerful new answers and insights are enabled.

“The U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Dynamics Statistics Program selected AllegroGraph for our BDS-IF data integration project because of its advanced performance capabilities in addition to the product’s FISMA compliance.” stated Dr. Javier Miranda, Principal Economist, U.S. Census Bureau. “Franz’s support team has been great to work with and repeatedly bent over backward to help move our project forward.” noted Dr. Miranda.

“Lots of answers can be provided by graph (network) analysis that cannot be answered any other way,” stated Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “Fortune 500 companies recognize it is crucial that executives deploy Semantic Graph Technologies as a new competitive tool.”

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OAKLAND, Calif. — November 3, 2014 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the Taxonomy Boot Camp Conference this November in Washington DC. Taxonomy Boot Camp brings together practitioners and experts in taxonomy, vendors who have created tools to help manage your taxonomies, and novices who are starting out in the world of information management.

Semantic Indexing of Unstructured Documents Using Taxonomies & Ontologies

Life science companies and healthcare organizations use RDF/SKOS/OWL-based vocabularies, thesauri, taxonomies, and ontologies to organize enterprise knowledge. There are many ways to use these technologies but one that is gaining momentum is to semantically index unstructured documents through ontologies and taxonomies. This talk discusses two use cases and demonstrates two projects using a combination of SKOS/OWL based taxonomies and ontologies, entity extraction, fast text search, and Graph Search

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AllegroCache’s dynamic object database technology powers leading edge, mission-critical applications that are robust, extensible, and easy to evolve.

OAKLAND, Calif. — October 14, 2014 — Franz Inc., the leading supplier of Graph Database technologies and Common Lisp based tools today announced AllegroCache 3.0, enhancing its object persistence capabilities for Allegro CL, the industry’s leading Common Lisp based development environment.

“Demand for approaches to solve complexity is increasing with the “Big Data” onslaught. Modern Lisp developers now have the best tools to develop their applications and deliver products to market on-time and on-budget,” commented Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc.

“AllegroCache is the heart of our rule-based Solicitation Selection system as well as our Medical Supply Chain solution for the U.S. Department of Defense.” noted Glenn House Sr., President 2Is Inc., “We are delighted with the new functionality in AllegroCache 3.0. We are able to cut our hosting database footprint by 50%, increase our transaction speeds from 50% to 100% and bring new search capabilities to bare.” stated Mr. House.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — July 1, 2014 — Franz, Inc. and The Malaysian State of Sabah’s Biodiversity Center (SaBC)  announce the licensing of AllegroGraph to run the Sabah Biodiversity Integrated Information System (SaBIIS).

The Malaysian state of Sabah on Borneo Island sits in the midst of one of the biodiversity hot spots of the world. One of its major concerns is the potential loss of biodiversity due to industrial development such as Oil Palm plantations. To enact effective policies to conserve biodiversity, Sabah needs an accurate and integrated view of its biodiversity. Unfortunately, such knowledge is scattered in more than 20 organizations that collect specimen data in different formats and schemas, and is always stored locally in silos. Furthermore, biodiversity information, including flora and fauna, covers vast and diverse subjects that are very difficult to model with traditional information modeling techniques. Merging this diverse information together to enable integrated understanding and discovery is a data integrating problem of mammoth proportion.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — May 15, 2014 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will be a featured speaker at the 2014 NoQL Now! conference this August in San Jose, CA. The fourth annual NoSQL Now! Conference is the largest vendor-neutral forum focused on NoSQL (Not Only SQL) technologies. The conference is intended for every enterprise looking for better, faster and cheaper solutions to manage its growing databases and data stores.

Enhancing Hadoop for GeoTemporal Graph Analytics Time

Data relationships play a vital role in various forms of data analytics, structured machine learning, and data mining applications. Data architects have begun to realize these relationships are more naturally expressed as “Graphs”. We discuss how Graph Databases for enhanced analytics have become an integral part of the Hadoop technology stack.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — April 14, 2014 — Franz Inc.’s Senior Engineer, Gábor Melis, will be a keynote speaker at the 7th annual European Lisp Symposium (ELS’14) this May in Paris, France. The European Lisp Symposium provides a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementationand application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop etc.

Sending Beams into the Parallel Cube 

A pop-scientific look through the Lisp lens at machine learning, parallelism, software, and prize fighting

We send probes into the topic hypercube bounded by machine learning, parallelism, software and contests, demonstrate existing and sketch future Lisp infrastructure, pin the future and foreign arrays down.

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Graph Database and Professional Services provider, Franz Inc., posted strong license growth for AllegroGraph, attributable to differentiated industry offerings and industry leading database capabilities.

OAKLAND, Calif. — March 3, 2014 — Franz, Inc., a leading provider of Graph Search solutions based on its industry leading database software, AllegroGraph, posted strong growth for license sales of AllegroGraph in 2013.

Franz acquired several Fortune 500 customers across a range of Industries. Notable additions include

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OAKLAND, Calif. — February 26, 2014 — Franz, Inc. and Tohoku Medical Megabank announce the licensing of AllegroGraph. Graph databases, like AllegroGraph, are one of the new technologies encouraging a rapid re-thinking of the analytics landscape. By tracking relationships – in a network of people, organizations, events and data – and applying reasoning (inference) to the data and connections, powerful new answers and insights are enabled.

“Lots of answers can be provided by graph (network) analysis that cannot be answered any other way,” stated Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “Fortune 500 companies recognize it is crucial that executives deploy Semantic Graph Technologies as a new competitive tool.”

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OAKLAND, Calif. — February 21, 2014 — Franz, Inc. and State Farm announce a training class covering AllegroGraph and related technologies. Graph databases, like AllegroGraph, are one of the new technologies encouraging a rapid re-thinking of the analytics landscape. By tracking relationships – in a network of people, organizations, events and data – and applying reasoning (inference) to the data and connections, powerful new answers and insights are enabled.

“Lots of answers can be provided by graph (network) analysis that cannot be answered any other way,” stated Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “Fortune 500 companies recognize it is crucial that executives deploy Semantic Graph Technologies as a new competitive tool.”

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OAKLAND, Calif. — February 12, 2014 — Franz, Inc. and WGSigma Systems jointly announce the availability of a Contract Risk Management framework for the large construction industry. With projects that can range from several hundred millions to multiple billions for a global project pipeline estimated at $9 trillion, budget and time overruns such as what happened at the Panama Canal expansion project ($5B) can create tremendous economic fallout ($1.6B in this case). The Sigma CRMS framework creates an early warning system that combs through critical project information including Daily Job logs, non-conforming reports, inspection reports, QC reports, contractor claims and notifications. All critical project information is then compared to the prevailing contracts to predict and advise project owners and prime contractors of risks and suggest what should be done given each partyҳ contractual rights and obligations, providing the workflow and evidence necessary to take action. With estimates for risk contingency near 20% of a construction project, the advantages offered by Sigma CRMS can go directly to the bottom line.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — February 3, 2014 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will be presenting at the March Text Analytics World Conference in San Francisco.   Text Analytics World is the full-spectrum conference that covers all aspects of text analytics. To solidify the business value you gain from text analytics, TAW delivers the latest methods/techniques, demonstrating their deployment across a wide range of industries large and small. TAW also explores the full range of vendor solutions and various forms of text analytics enterprise deployment. This leading event provides the means for people in fields traditionally separate and siloed to communicate and learn from one another – discovering how much they can gain from an interdisciplinary collaboration.

Real-Time Graph Search for Corporate Risk Mitigation

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OAKLAND, Calif. — November 1, 2013 — Franz, Inc. today announced that the company was named as one of 21 NoSQL Innovators to Look for in 2020, in a post on The Wikibon technology research and advisory website because of its flagship RDF and Graph Database product, AllegroGraph.

“Thanks to the explosion of Big Data throughout every industry sector and requirements for real-time, predictive and other forms of now indispensable transactions and analytics to drive revenue and business outcomes, today there are more than 50 DBs in a variety of categories that address different aspects of the Big Data conundrum. Welcome to the new normal world of NoSQL – or, Not only Structured Query Language – a term used to designate databases which differ from classic relational databases in some way,” sites contributing author Gary MacFadden.

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Siemens’ United Service Intelligence Answer System in use by 1500 employees saves $10 million annually

OAKLAND, Calif. — October 20, 2013 — Franz, Inc., a leading supplier of Graph Database technology and Siemens Energy, the world’s leading supplier of a wide range of products, solutions and services in the field of energy technology, announced Siemens deployment of Unified Service Intelligence (USI) Answers, a natural language question answering system for semi-structured industry data that includes AllegroGraph as part of the technology.

“Today’s enterprises need to make decisions based on analyzing massive and heterogeneous data sources”, said Dan Tecuci, Siemens Corporate Technology. “USI Answers is focused on offering easy and reliable natural language access to large bodies of data that are used in the planning and delivery of service by Siemens Energy”.

Siemens deployed USI Answers for easy access to enterprise data to over 1500 users in 18 countries. The system allows users, even with limited familiarity with technical systems and databases, to pose questions in a natural way and gain insights of the underlying data sources available.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — September 16, 2013 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will give the Keynote talk at ICSC 2013 on Wednesday, September 18 in Irvine, CA. The IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying emerging research topics and defining the future of the field.

Complex event handling with Semantic Technology

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OAKLAND, Calif. — July 9, 2013 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the 2013 NoSQL Now! Conference this August in San Jose, CA.  The third annual NoSQL Now! Conference is the largest vendor-neutral forum focused on NoSQL (Not Only SQL) technologies. The conference is intended for every enterprise looking for better, faster and cheaper solutions to manage its growing databases and data stores.

Tracking Moving Objects in a Graph Database

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KRSTE.my provides one-stop access to all the information you ever wanted on Research, Development & Commercialisation (R,D&C) activities in the areas of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI)

OAKLAND, Calif. — May 15, 2013 — Franz, Inc. and The Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI)announce the licensing of AllegroGraph to run KRSTE.my. Graph databases, like AllegroGraph, are one of the new technologies encouraging a rapid re-thinking of the analytics landscape. By tracking relationships – in a network of people, organizations, events and data – and applying reasoning (inference) to the data and connections, powerful new answers and insights are enabled.

“KRSTE.my is a one-stop access to all the information on Malaysian Research, Development & Commercialization activities in the areas of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). Semantic Technology and RDF graph database make it possible to integrate the heterogeneous data from many disparate sources, to create such a one-stop information portal”, states Dr. Dickson Lukose, MOSTI’s Head of Knowledge Technology Cluster. Visit Krste.my at https://krste.my/.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — March 30, 2013 — Franz, Inc. and Wolters Kluwer announce the licensing of AllegroGraph. Graph databases, like AllegroGraph, are one of the new technologies encouraging a rapid re-thinking of the analytics landscape. By tracking relationships – in a network of people, organizations, events and data – and applying reasoning (inference) to the data and connections, powerful new answers and insights are enabled.

“Lots of answers can be provided by graph (network) analysis that cannot be answered any other way,” stated Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “Fortune 500 companies recognize it is crucial that executives deploy Semantic Graph Technologies as a new competitive tool.”

Wolters Kluwer Presentation: “How does Linked Open Data change the Publishing Landscape?”

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OAKLAND, Calif. — March 12, 2013 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will have two presentations at the June Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco.   The Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz) brings together today’s industry thought leaders and practitioners to explore the challenges and opportunities jointly impacting both corporate business leaders and technologists. Attendees benefit from this unique opportunity to explore how semantic solutions and linked data are being embraced throughout companies across a diverse range of business categories.

Real-Time Graph Search for Corporate Risk Mitigation

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OAKLAND, Calif. — January 30, 2013 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the Text Analytics World Conference this April in San Francisco, CA.  Text Analytics World (TAW) covers all aspects of text analytics, delivering the latest methods/techniques, demonstrating their deployment across a wide range of industries large and small, and explores the full range of vendor solutions and various forms of text analytics enterprise deployment. TAW explores five major areas of text analytics: Big Data, Social Media, Enterprise Applications, Intelligence Applications, and Knowledge Organization.

AllegroText: Text Mining with an RDF Graph Database

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OAKLAND, Calif. — January 14, 2013 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the Conference on Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS 2013) this February in Cambridge/Boston, MA.  CSHALS is the premier annual event focused on the use of semantic technologies in the pharmaceutical industry, including hospitals/healthcare institutions and academic research labs, with an expanded scope that includes the emerging field of data science. Topics covered by CSHALS 2013 span the continuum between standards development and big data workflows – the scope between Life Science data representation and its analysis.

Semantic Indexing of Unstructured Documents Using Taxonomies and Ontologies

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Delivering Scalable Knowledge Graph Solutions – Franz Inc.

OAKLAND, Calif. — December 11, 2017 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graphs, today announced it has been named to the Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2018 by Database Trends and Applications.

“Today, innovative approaches, such as Hadoop, Spark, NoSQL, and NewSQL, are being used in addition to more established technologies, such as the mainframe, and relational and MultiValue database systems. In addition, artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities are some of the newer approaches being introduced in products.” Noted DBTA, “To help bring these resources to light, each year, Database Trends and Applications magazine looks for offerings that promise to help organizations derive greater benefit from their data, make better decisions, work more efficiently, achieve greater security, and address emerging challenges. In total, this list of forward-looking products helps illuminate the path on which the data management market is headed.”

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Gruff v4 and AllegroGraph Power Discovery for CRM, SEO, Security, Social Networking, Banking, and Telco Applications 

OAKLAND, Calif. — August 20, 2012 – Franz Inc., the leading supplier of Graph Database technology for the Semantic Web, today announced Gruff v4, the industry’s leading RDF browser to view graph data, explore connections within data, and visually build queries without writing code. In addition, Gruff allows users to easily visualize the RDFa embedded metadata on websites and combine with open or proprietary data to infer new facts.

The free-form nature of Graph style data offers a lot of flexibility for constructing databases, but that freedom can also make it less obvious how to find arbitrary data for retrieval, error checking, or general browsing. Gruff is a graphical Resource Description Framework (RDF) database browser which makes data retrieval more pleasant and powerful by providing a variety of tools for laying out cyclical graphs, displaying tables of properties, managing queries, and building SPARQL and Prolog queries as visual diagrams.

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OAKLAND, Calif. — August 15, 2012 – Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will be discussing graph database technologies and practical use cases during two presentations at the August NoSQL Now! Conference in San Jose. NoSQL Now! is a conference covering the dynamic field of NoSQL technologies (Not Only SQL). The goal of the educational conference is to describe the diversity of NoSQL technologies available to all organizations to address their business needs, and to offer objective evaluation processes to match the right NoSQL solutions with the right business challenge.

Using Graph Databases to Analyze Relationships, Risks and Business Opportunities – A Case Study – August 22

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OAKLAND, Calif. — August 13, 2012 – Franz Inc.’s Vice President of Corporate Development, Sheng-Chuan Wu will be discussing graph database technologies and practical use cases during the Keynote, and an additional presentation at the September Artificial Intelligence Special Sessions on Semantic Technology Applications in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The Artificial Intelligence Special Sessions (AISS 2012) is organized by MIMOS BERHAD and co-located with other events during the Knowledge Technology Week 2012 (KTW2012).

Keynote Presentation: Mitigating Agriculture and Biodiversity conflicts with Semantic Technology – September 4th.

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Allegro CL’s dynamic object technology, now with SMP, powers leading edge, mission-critical applications that are robust, extensible, and easy to evolve.

OAKLAND, Calif. — July 23, 2012 — Franz Inc., the leading supplier of Common Lisp based tools and Graph Database technology for the Semantic Web, today announced Allegro CL v9.0, bringing symmetric multi-processing capabilities to the industry’s leading Common Lisp based development environment.

“Demand for faster, more intelligent, and scalable applications is increasing with the “Big Data” onslaught. Modern Lisp developers now have the best tool to scale their applications and deliver products to market on-time and on-budget,” commented Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc.

“Franz’s Allegro CL v9.0 release is a major advance,” noted Jason Cornez, CTO, RavenPack. “It brings true SMP to one of the best programming environments available.  All our existing multithreaded applications “just work”, and run much faster than before on the same hardware.”

“RavenPack is a leading provider of real-time news analysis services. Financial professionals rely on RavenPack for its speed and accuracy in analyzing large amounts of news content on more than 28,000 publicly traded companies across 80 countries,” stated Dr. Aasman.  “Allegro CL’s new SMP capabilities will continue to facilitate Ravenpack’s low latency text and sentiment analysis that they deliver as a real-time data feed.”

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OAKLAND, Calif. — September 11, 2012 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the September Semantic Technology Conference in London.   The Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz) brings together today’s industry thought leaders and practitioners to explore the challenges and opportunities jointly impacting both corporate business leaders and technologists. Attendees benefit from this unique opportunity to explore how semantic solutions and linked data are being embraced throughout companies across a diverse range of business categories.

A Semantic Platform for Tracking Entities in Real Time

Having engaged several Fortune 500 companies with projects to develop Semantic Technology solutions, we have identified several consistent requirements that have become the foundation for successful deployments of Semantic Technologies.

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AllegroGraph 4.7 Powers Dynamic Reasoning Critical for CRM, Financial Services, Security, Social Networking and Telco Applications

OAKLAND, Calif. — June 11, 2012 — Franz, Inc., the leading supplier of Graph Database technology for the Semantic Web, today announced AllegroGraph 4.7, the industry’s first native RDF database with Enterprise Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) capabilities. This breakthrough in database technology allows companies to simultaneously add, query and dynamically reason over large scale semantic datasets with ACID compliance and transaction management. The v4.7 release adds Solr and MongoDB integration along with a host of other features and enhancements.

“Despite Solr’s many capabilities the product does not include the ability to perform semantic search in your files. For example, it does not let you perform queries or reasoning over the objects that are discovered in a document via Entity Extraction. For that you need to marry Solr with an RDF Database, like AllegroGraph, to create intelligent text documents.” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz, Inc. “Several of our SemTech customer projects have found this augmentation of Solr with RDF to be a key feature for creating unique capabilities within their product offering.”

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OAKLAND, Calif. — May 15, 2012 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will have three presentations as well as leading a panel discussion at the June Semantic Technology Conference in San Francisco.   The Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz) brings together today’s industry thought leaders and practitioners to explore the challenges and opportunities jointly impacting both corporate business leaders and technologists. Attendees benefit from this unique opportunity to explore how semantic solutions and linked data are being embraced throughout companies across a diverse range of business categories.

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Partnership Powers ReportingHub Solution for operators on the Norwegian Continental Shelf

OAKLAND, Calif. — September 15, 2011 — Franz Inc., the leading supplier of Graph Database technology, and TopQuadrant Inc., the leader in semantic data integration, have announced their extended partnership to deliver solutions for the Exploration & Production Information Management Association’s (EPIM) Reporting Hub.

For the past four years, EPIM has been working with the industry solving its problem of collecting, normalizing, validating, analyzing and reporting data about activities of the North Sea oil and gas drillers.  To realize the full potential of the information about $40 billion worth of petroleum produced annually on the Norwegian Continental Shelf, EPIM envisioned the ReportingHub as standards based information-exchange solution.  It will utilize Semantic Web standards for storing, querying and analyzing exploration and production data, and the ISO 15926 standard as a foundation for sharing information about life-cycle activities and processes of the production facilities.

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AllegroGraph is the first NoSQL database to achieve the loading of over 1 Trillion RDF Triples – A major step forward in scalability for the Semantic Web.

OAKLAND, Calif. — August 16, 2011 — Franz Inc., a leading supplier of Graph Database technology, with critical support from Stillwater SuperComputing Inc. and Intel, today announced it has achieved its goal of being the first to load and query a NoSQL database with a trillion RDF statements. RDF (also known as triples or quads), the cornerstone of the Semantic Web, provides a more flexible way to represent data than relational database and is at the heart of the W3C push for the Semantic Web.

A trillion RDF Statements eclipses the current state of the art for the Semantic Web data management but is a primary interest for companies like Amdocs that use triples to represent real-time knowledge about telecom customers. Per-customer, Amdocs uses about 4,000 triples, so a large telecom like China Mobile would easily need 2 trillion triples to have detailed knowledge about each single customer.

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OAKLAND, Calif., April 16, 2019 — Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Common Lisp (CL) development tools along with Graph Database technology for Knowledge Graphs, today announced that Barefoot Networks uses Franz Allegro CL® (Allegro Common Lisp) in the design of the Barefoot Tofino series programmable switch chips to enable Artificial Intelligence, solve complexity, drive superior performance and power efficiency within networks.

“At Barefoot Networks we use Lisp (via Allegro CL’s Enterprise class development environment) in the design of our Tofino series of programmable switch chips,” said Patrick Bosshart, CTO and Co-founder, Barefoot Networks.  “ Important to us are basic features of the language like its ability to manipulate symbolic data, to represent programs and create embedded languages. We have created embedded languages for building design netlists, and for the gate placement and routing phases of physical design. All of these have the expressive power of lisp seamlessly included. We build custom module generators and layout compilers on a scale significantly larger and more complex than industry standard approaches, which we believe gives us significant competitive advantages in chip area, performance and power efficiency.”

“The best software programmers in the world choose Common Lisp since it is the most exciting language for deploying Artificial Intelligence solutions. Lisp delivers powerful symbolic computing capabilities and its unique homoiconicity simply makes learning systems more powerful that other programming languages,” said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. “We are pleased that Barefoot Networks has tapped into the power of Allegro CL to apply the benefits of Artificial Intelligence to the future of programmable networks.”

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