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Franz Inc. and Geoscience Experts Recognize the Growing Importance of Semantic Knowledge Graphs for Earth Science

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.

"Our most pressing global environmental challenges cannot be solved by a single organization," said Dr. Annie Burgess, Lab Director, Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP). "Scientists require data collected across multiple disciplines, which are often managed by many different agencies and institutions. ESIP is a community of data and information technology professionals dedicated to ensuring those data are FAIR. To assist with that goal, the unique semantic graph capabilities of AllegroGraph are leveraged with the ESIP Community Ontology Repository, a community platform to manage and exchange terms and vocabularies that assists scientists to publish, discover and reuse data."

Barefoot Networks Uses Franz’s Allegro CL to Drive Artificial Intelligence in Networks

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."

Franz and Semantic Web Company Partner to Create a Noam Chomsky Knowledge Graph

September 13, 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.

The Noam Chomsky Knowledge Graph project will organize and semantically link the vast knowledge domain surrounding Noam Chomsky, the founder of modern linguistics, a founder of cognitive science, and a major figure in analytic philosophy as well as an American linguist, philosopher, historian and social critic. Chomsky is currently an Institute Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and laureate professor at the University of Arizona. He has received many awards including Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award of the American Psychological Association, the Kyoto Prize in Basic Sciences, the Helmholtz Medal, the Dorothy Eldridge Peacemaker Award, and the Ben Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science....

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the Enterprise Data World Conference in San Diego

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. 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...

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the Data Day Texas 2018! Conference in Austin

January 12, 2018 OAKLAND, Calif. — Januuary 12, 2018 — Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the Data Day Texas 2018! Conference in Austin, Texas day, January 27th.

Dr. Aasman's talk: Navigating Time and Probability in Knowledge Graphs

The market for knowledge graphs is rapidly developing and evolving to solve widely acknowledged deficiencies with data warehouse approaches. Graph databases are providing the foundation for these knowledge graphs and in our enterprise customer base we see two approaches forming: static knowledge graphs and dynamic event driven knowledge graphs. Static knowledge graphs focus mostly on metadata about entities and the relationships between these entities but they don’t capture ongoing business processes...

Franz Inc. Named to Trend-Setting Products in Data and Information Management for 2018

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...

Franz Inc. named to The Silicon Review 50 Fastest Growing Tech Companies 2017

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...

Franz Launches Superior Graph Database Security to Protect the Most Sensitive Data

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....

Franz’s Vice President of Corporate Development to Present at the Analytics India Summit (CYPHER 2017) in Bangalore, September 22

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)...

Franz Inc. named to the Big Data 50 - Companies Driving Innovation in 2017

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...

Franz’s Gruff Adds “Time Machine” Feature for Temporal Graph Analytics

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...

Intel Xeon Scalable Platform Launch - Features Montefiore and Franz's Semantic Data Lake

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...

Franz Inc. named to the DBTA 100 - The Companies That Matter Most in Data

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 2017 - 'The Companies That Matter Most in Data'...

Franz’s Allegro Common Lisp Meets Demand for High Performance Artificial Intelligence and IoT Applications

April 25, 2017 - Allegro CL 10.1 Gains ARM Processor Support for IoT Applications. Franz Inc. today announced Allegro CL 10.1, which includes key performance enhancements now available within the most effective system for developing and deploying applications to solve the challenges developers face in the field of Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things (IoT).

"The market is recognizing the increasingly symbiotic relationship between the IoT and cognitive computing." said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. "This release of Allegro CL 10.1 with support for ARM processors provides IoT developers a high performance tool to scale their applications and deliver innovative and intelligent IoT products to market."...

Bloor Research Positions Franz’s AllegroGraph as a ‘Champion’ and Highest Ranked in Graph Database Market

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

Trappist-1 Exoplanets - The SIRPASS Story

February 23, 2017 Astronomers are celebration a new discovery, a treasue trove of planets found. The big news is that around a very nearby, cold, small star, seven rocky Earth-sized planets, all of which could potentially have liquid water. Three of them orbit in the habitable zone around the star. The planetary system is called Trappist-1. Jet Propulsion Lab's David S. Mittman and Space Telescope Science Institute's Robert Hawkins have co-authored a white paper that describes the project environment in which the Spitzer Integratesd Resource Planning and Scheduling System (SIRPASS) was developed and used in operations....

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the Enterprise Data World Conference in Atlanta

February 6, 2017 - Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the Enterprise Data World Conference in 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. 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...

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the TTI/Vanguard Data Big and Small Conference, February 16–17, San Francisco

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...

Lead Semantics and Franz Inc. Announce Collaboration and Development Partnership

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...

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the Smart Data Conference in Redwood City, CA

January 11, 2017 - Presentation: Cognitive Probability Graphs for Smart Knowledge Management, January 31. Knowledge creation via Cognitive Probability Graphs stems from the capability to combine the probability space (statistical inference on patient data) with a knowledge base of comprehensive industry terminology systems. Cognitive Probability Graphs are remarkable not just because of the possibilities they engender, but also because of their practicality. The confluence of knowledge via machine learning, semantics, visual querying, graph databases, and big data not only displays links between objects, but also quantifies the probability of their occurrence. We believe this approach will be transformative across numerous business verticals...

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the Knowledge Management World Conference (KMWorld 2016) in Washington D.C. - November 16th

July 19, 2016 The topic of the talk - Tools for Expanding KM Processes. In this high-speed digital era, organizations have to deal with high volumes of structured and unstructured data. New digital tools are being developed to help analyze and visualize this vast amount of data; however, many challenges still remain...

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the Enterprise Data World Conference in San Diego

April 6, 2016 Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the Enterprise Data World Conference in San Diego Wednesday, April 20th, 9:30 AM. The 20th annual Enterprise Data World (EDW) Conference is recognized as the most comprehensive educational conference on data management in the world. Montefiore Medical Center in collaboration with Franz, Intel, Cloudera and Cisco created a scalable and extensible Learning Healthcare System platform for accountable care and precision medicine initiatives. We call the underlying Hadoop based big data platform a "Semantic Data Lake" (SDL). The SDL integrates complex information and analytic requirements including basic science, clinical, population, community, environmental, behavioral, and wellness research data...

Franz Inc. named to KMWorld Magazine's 2016 "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management"

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"...

Franz’s Vice President of Corporate Development to Keynote at the 14th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (PRICAI 2016)

March 29, 2015 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...

Franz Inc. and The Wroclaw Institute of Spatial Information and Artificial Intelligence (The Wroclaw Institute) team up to deliver graph and A.I. solutions in Poland

March 15, 2016 We are pleased to inform that Wroclaw Institute has been appointed as a partner by Franz Inc. - worldÂs leading producer of semantic graph technologies. The agreement grants to Wroclaw Institute exclusive right to sell FranzÂs - AllegroGraph family of products for territory of Poland. AllegroGraph is best in class graph database, fully supporting W3C standards adopted by start-upÂs as well as vast number of Fortune 100 companies. AllegroGraph is a part of Big Data ecosystem as it could be integrated with Apache Hadoop and Amazon EC2...

AllegroGraph Certification on Cloudera Enterprise Creates a Semantic Graph Data Platform for Hadoop

February 8, 2016 Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, today announced the availability of AllegroGraph 6, the leading Semantic Graph Database with certification on the latest release of Cloudera Enterprise through the Cloudera Certified Technology Program (CCPT). AllegroGraph is the first Semantic Graph Database to be certified on Cloudera Enterprise, the global provider of the fastest, easiest, and most secure data management and analytics platform built on Apache Hadoop and the latest open source technologies...

AllegroGraph Recognized as Best in Semantic Web Technology - USA & Leader in Graph Database Products

February 3, 2016 Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology has been recognized As "Best in Semantic Web Technology - USA & Leader in Graph Database Products" by Corporate America Software and Technology...

Franz’s Vice President of Corporate Development to Keynote at the 11th International Knowledge Management in Organizations Conference (KMO 2016)

February 2, 2016 Franz Inc.’s Vice President of Corporate Development, Dr. Sheng-Chuan Wu, will be a keynote speaker at the 11th International Knowledge Management in Organizations Conference (KMO 2016) this July in Hagen, Germany. Knowledge Management is in the midst of a revolution. Traditional KM approaches have failed to meet the challenges posed by Big Data, mobility, social media, and customer demands. ThatÂs because the knowledge critical for customer service is everywhere, and new approaches are required to tap into its value.Continuing the success of the KMO conference series since 2005, the KMO 2016 conference will provide an international communication forum bringing together academia and industry for discussing the progress made and addressing the challenges faced by knowledge management...

AllegroGraph Recognized Among Top 10 Analytics Solution Providers by Pharma Tech Outlook

January 28, 2016 Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology has been named to Pharma Tech Outlook Top 10 Analytics Solutions Providers for 2016. "Franz Inc. has been selected as a Top 10 Analytics Solution Provider after careful evaluation across a dozen quantitative and qualitative elements," said Stacey Smith, Editor of Pharma Tech Outlook. "Our selection process takes into consideration a company's experience, industry recognition, technical certifications, market presence and positive client reviews. Franz Inc. and their Semantic Graph Database, AllegroGraph, are clear market leaders for Analytics in the Pharmaceutical Industry."...

Franz's Gruff Produces Dynamic Visual Discovery for Graph Analytics

November 2, 2015 Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, today announced Gruff v6.0, 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 visualize connections between data without writing code, which speeds discovery and enhances the ability to uncover hidden connections within data...

Allegro CL 10 Gains Parallel Memory Management to Power Complex, Mission-critical Applications that are Robust, Extensible and Easy to Evolve

October 7, 2015 Franz Inc., an early innovator in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and leading supplier of Common Lisp (CL) development tools and Semantic Graph Database technology, today announced Allegro CL 10, which includes key performance enhancements now available within the most effective system for developing and deploying applications to solve the problems in the field of Artificial Intelligence. "Demand for faster, more intelligent and scalable applications is increasing with the Big Data onslaught that is impacting applications in traditional AI industries like National Defense, but also in Life Sciences, Manufacturing and Financial Analytics," said Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc. ...

AllegroGraph Named as Leading Database Solution by CIOReview

September 15, 2015 Franz, Inc., the leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology technology has been named CIOReview Magazine's Top 20 Most Promising Database Technology Solution providers. The award comes on the heals of Franz's recent announcement of the first Semantic Data Lake (SDL) for Healthcare, which was created in collaboration with Montefiore Medical Center (the eighth largest hospital group in the U.S.), Intel, Cloudera and Cisco. The SDL for Healthcare is a scalable and extensible Healthcare platform designed for Accountable Care and Personalized Medicine initiatives...

Franz’s Vice President of Corporate Development to Keynote at The 8th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management (KSEM 2015)

August 26, 2015 The world is drowning in data. Modern technologies and digital devices have made it very easy to generate, collect and store mammoth data that gives rise to the term, "Big Data". In 2009, Google published Flu Trends based on analyzing gazillions of flu-related searches to detect the spread of flu even before CDC could, demonstrating how to use Big Data to address societal needs. Since then, everyone wants to collect, analyze, invest in and make money from Big Data. Market research firms predict an exciting business opportunity of US$50 billion by 2017....

Franz and Montefiore Medical Center Team up to Deliver the First Semantic Data Lake for Healthcare

August 13, 2015 Franz Inc., the leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, in collaboration with Montefiore Medical Center (the eighth largest hospital in the U.S.), Intel, Cloudera and Cisco, announced the first Semantic Data Lake (SDL) for Healthcare, a scalable and extensible Healthcare platform designed for Accountable Care and Personalized Medicine initiatives. Montefiore Medical Center is developing the SDL Healthcare platform to enable and scale knowledge-based analytics, classification, pattern recognition, predictive modeling, and simulations. The platform integrates complex information for basic science, clinical, population, community, environmental, behavioral and wellness research data. On August 18 during the Smart Data Conference, Dr. Parsa Mirhaji MD. PhD., Montefiore Medical Center and Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc., will introduce the concept of SDL for Healthcare and associated smart applications...

Franz Delivers First Real-time N-Dimensional Analysis for Big Data

July 13, 2015 Franz, Inc., the leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, today announced announced that the company has added patented N-dimensional analysis capabilities to its flagship product, AllegroGraph, marking the first time data scientists can answer complex SPARQL queries across multiple dimensions over billions of records in sub-second time. This technologic breakthrough is propelling new applications in areas such as Personalized Medicine, Insider Threat Detection, National Intelligence, Defense, Cyber Security and Law Enforcement...

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to participate on a panel for a "Conversation on Data Privacy in a Rapidly Growing Connected World of Intelligent Machines"

June 1, 2015 Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will participate on a panel for a "Conversation on Data Privacy in a Rapidly Growing Connected World of Intelligent Machines" being organized by the Netherlands Office for Science & Technology (NOST) June 23rd at the offices of the Consulate General of the Netherlands in San Francisco.

For everyone of us, the implications of sharing private information on social media are pretty much clear cut, be it perhaps for the lack of clarity of the user agreements and privacy statements that go with those social media. What many people donÂt realize is how much of our data is floating around as we use our devices, ranging from cell phones to cars. And this situation will become more complex rapidly as those devices are becoming more intelligent and interconnected. At the same time, having all this data floating around provides great opportunity, for example for diagnosing illnesses, detecting fraud and making educated infrastructure decisions. So the timing is right for having a balanced Conversation on Data Privacy. See here for additional information about the event, and here to register to attend...

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the Smart Data Conference in San Jose

May 26, 2015 Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the Smart Data Conference this August in San Jose, CA. The Smart Data Conference is designed to accommodate all levels of technical understanding, and brings together emerging disciplines that are focused on more intelligent information gathering and analysis.

Healthcare Analytics with a Smart Data Lake...

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at the 2015 NOSQL NOW! Conference in San Jose

May 22, 2015 Franz Inc.’s CEO, Dr. Jans Aasman, will present at the 2015 NoQL Now! conference this August in San Jose, CA. The fifth 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.

Spark and SPARQL for the Intelligent Data Lake...

Bloor Research Positions AllegroGraph as a 'Champion' in Burgeoning Graph Database Market

May 5, 2015 Franz, Inc., the leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, today announced its flagship product, AllegroGraph, has been named a Champion by Bloor Research in its recent Graph Database Market Update report. AllegroGraph is a high performance Semantic Graph Database that enables analytics by leveraging the W3C industry standards. Graph databases are skyrocketing in popularity and have grown by 400% in the past two years, according to a recent DBMS ranking by DB-Engines...

AllegroGraph Nominated for the Database Trends and Applications Readers' Choice Award

April 23, 2015 Franz, Inc., the leading supplier of Semantic Graph Database technology, today announced its flagship product AllegroGraph has been nominated for the Database Trends and Applications (DBTA) Reader's Choice Award in the Best Database and Best NoSQL Database catagories....

Franz Senior Scientist, Ahmon Dancy to Present at the 2015 European Lisp Symposium in London, UK

April 6, 2015 Franz Senior Scientist, Ahmon Dancy will present at the 2015 European Lisp Symposium later this month in London, UK. The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects. Ahmon will be presenting "Escaping the Heap" at 12:30, April 21...

Franz, Inc. Announces Allegro NFS Server v6.0

April 2, 2015 Franz, Inc. today announces the availability of version 6.0 of its NFS Server for Windows, the market leader for NFS Server products. "Allegro NFS Server for Windows was inspired by our dissatisfaction with current free and commercial NFS servers available on the market and the incredible technical difficulties we faced in configuring them on Windows", states Franz's CEO Jans Aasman. Allegro NFS Server for Windows was designed for all current versions of the Windows operating system, and is very easy and flexible to configure.

Allegro NFS has become a standard for many Fortune 500 customers such as:

Boeing
Teledyne
Disney
Raytheon
NASA

Philips
Siemens
IBM
Alcoa
Dupont

GE
Xerox
Ericsson
Seagate
US Department of Defence

Franz Receives 2015 Best Semantic Graph Database Award

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...

Franz Extends its Semantic Graph Database

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

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...

Franz Inc. Chief Scientist John Foderaro part of the UC-Berkeley RISC team receiving IEEE Milestone Recognition

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...

Haystax and Franz Inc. Partner to Deliver Insider Threat Detection Solutions

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...

The U.S. Census Bureau licenses AllegroGraph because of advanced performance capabilities

November 17, 2014 "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....

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at Taxonomy Boot Camp in Washington DC

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...

Franz Inc. Extends AllegroCache for Common Lisp Persistence

October 9, 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...

The Malaysian State of Sabah's Biodiversity Center Licenses AllegroGraph to run SaBIIS

July 1, 2014 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...

NoSQL Now! Conference will feature Dr. Jans Aasman, CEO of Franz Inc.

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

Gábor Melis to Keynote European Lisp Symposium

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...

AllegroGraph Achieves 81% Growth in 2013

March 3, 2014 Graph Database and Professional Services provider, Franz Inc., posted strong license growth for AllegroGraph, attributable to differentiated industry offerings and industry leading database capabilities.Franz acquired several Fortune 500 customers across a range of Industries. Notable additions include...

Tohoku Medical Megabank Licenses AllegroGraph

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...

State Farm Receives AllegroGraph Training

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...

Franz, Inc. and WGSigma Systems jointly announce the availability of a Contract Risk Management framework for the large construction industry

February 12, 2014 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....

Franz’s CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at Text Analytics World ‘14

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...

AllegroGraph named - "21 NoSQL Innovators to Look for in 2020"

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...

Siemens Energy Deploys Intelligence System with Franz's AllegroGraph for Actionable Insight in the Energy Service Domain

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...

Jans Aasman to Keynote Seventh IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2013)

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...

NoSQL Now! Conference features AllegroGraph's GeoTemporal Reasoning Capabilities

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...

The Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) Licenses AllegroGraph to run KRSTE.my

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)!

May 15, 2013 Franz, Inc. and The Malaysian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) announce the licensing of AllegroGraph to run KRSTE.my. "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...

GRUFF - Graph Search Browser extends Visual Query Building Capabilities

Gruff v5 and AllegroGraph Power Graph Search for Banking, Pharma Discovery, Health Care and Security Applications

April 23, 2013 Franz Inc., the leading supplier of Graph Database technology for the Semantic Webtarget blank image., today announced Gruff v5.0, the industry's leading RDF browser to view graph data, explore connections within data, and visually build queries without writing code...

Wolters Kluwer Licenses AllegroGraph

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...

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

Franz's CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at SemTechBiz '13

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...

Enterprise Data World welcomes presentation by Jans Aasman, Franz's CEO

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...