Graph for Equitable Financial Opportunities: The 5-Minute Interview With Arthur Zverko
By Angela Zimmerman
March 24, 2023 3 mins read
Because of how we approach data in our platform and look at it from a developer-friendly way – and thinking of the data just as JavaScript objects – the traversal of graphs seemed like a natural pick for us. That’s why we chose to go with Neo4j,” says Arthur Zverko, Software Team Lead at financial platform Equitybee.
Explore: 5-minute interview • cypher • cypher queries • Equitybee • financial services • Interview
Graphs for Ease and Scalability in the Auto Industry: The 5-Minute Interview with Michal Stefanak
By Angela Zimmerman
March 8, 2023 3 mins read
”I think graph database is the only database we should use – at all. It’s the best one. After using Neo4j, I don’t want to go back to relational databases. The Neo4j database is perfect. It’s exactly the way people think and how you draw all the UML diagrams and everything. It’s exactly what you do,” says Michal Stefanak, Programmer at VOLKE.
Explore: 5-minute interview • automotive industry • customer stories • Interview • programmer
Fight Cybercrime With Bloom: The 5-Minute Interview With Bertrand Provost
By Angela Zimmerman
February 7, 2023 2 mins read
Meet Bertrand Provost, a Senior Data Scientist at Le Groupe La Poste, a company that operates postal services, banks, insurance, and more. And as France’s biggest local commercial network with 1.3 million daily customers – and delivering 18 billion items annually (!) – it’s not difficult to see how the organization may face some data challenges. Enter graph technology.
Explore: 5-minute interview • Bloom • Cybercrime • data science • fraud detection • Interview • Le Groupe La Poste
The Visual Simplicity of Graph: The 5-Minute Interview With Folks From Fractal 5
By Angela Zimmerman
January 18, 2023 4 mins read
“Everything is a graph. So as far as Neo’s development and the advances it’s made in the speed and adoption of more data – and more mature data – everyone can leverage all the developments in regards to graph neural networks and such. And that lends itself to a better world altogether,” Bjartur Hjaltason, machine learning engineer at Fractal 5.
Explore: 5-minute interview • Connected Data • Developer • Fractal 5 • graph technology • Interview • machine learning • Social Networks
Predictions for 2023: What’s on the Horizon for Graph Technology?
By Angela Zimmerman
December 27, 2022 25 mins read
It’s always a pleasure speaking with Jim Webber, Neo4j’s Chief Scientist. I got the opportunity to sit down with him for an extensive conversation that touched on everything from the challenges of the COVID years, some recent product launches at Neo4j, the graph ecosystem in APAC and beyond, and his predictions for what’s in store for graph in the year 2023. (Hint: Graphs aren’t going away.
Explore: 2023 Predictions • APAC • graph data science • graph database • Interview • Predictions
Better Together With AWS: The 5-Minute Interview With Roya Niki Hugosson
By Angela Zimmerman
December 19, 2022 2 mins read
“We went together with Neo4j and told this Better Together story… Speed and cost, they are important, and that’s what customers can get with Neo4j’s graph,” Roya Niki Hugosson, Strategic Account Manager, ISV, Amazon Web Services.
Explore: 5-minute interview • amazon web services • AWS • graph technology • GraphConnect 2022 • Interview • neo4j
Graph Data Science for Drug Discovery: The 5-Minute Interview With Ufuk Kirik
By Angela Zimmerman
November 18, 2022 < 1 min read
Dip your toes in the water. Pay attention to graph model, but don’t be a perfectionist. There’s a lot of really good documentation out there. There’s a lot of experts who are willing to share their expertise. Use them and don’t be shy and try it out,” says Ufuk Kirik, Associate Director of Graph Data Science at AstraZeneca.
Explore: 5-minute interview • graph data science • Interview • Life Sciences • pharmaceutical
Connected Data for Compliance: The 5-Minute Interview With Miguel Aguado
By Angela Zimmerman
October 14, 2022 4 mins read
“The data model is key to the success of graph technology. If you are able to create the model that reflects your reality, and at the same time fulfill your needs, you are going to be a success, and you… Read more →
Explore: 5-minute interview • banking • compliance • customer experience • financial services • Interview • regulatory compliance
Combating Disease Using Graphs: The 5-Minute Interview With Henrik Enquist
By Angela Zimmerman
October 4, 2022 3 mins read
“As a beginner starting to use Neo4j for the first time, I would say just go with it, try it, play with a movie example data set, and just get familiar with it. It’s really quite logical once you figure out the first few steps,” says Henrik Enquist, Advanced IT Developer at Novo Nordisk.
Explore: 5-minute interview • Customer • customer use case • Healthcare • Interview • neo4j • Novo Nordisk
A Power User’s Experience on Using Graph Databases to Drive Better Decision Making
By Angela Zimmerman
September 28, 2022 4 mins read
“Bloom visualization makes it easy to drive discussion and help my clients understand the cheapest, fastest, or the greatest value path available to them and drive better decision making,” said Rob Orlando, Chief Operations Officer, Processus Group.
Explore: AuraDB • customer experience • cypher • graph database • Interview • neo4j • Processus Group
Graphs for Business Transformation: The 5-Minute Interview With Trinette Brownhill
By Angela Zimmerman
September 22, 2022 3 mins read
“I’ve been trying to find concrete evidence of why we need to bring in Neo4j… The team gives me a lot of the support I need in order to take the evidence to my clients,” says Trinette Brownhill, a Distinguished Engineer at IBM.
Explore: 5-minute interview • business transformation • engineer • graph database • graph technology • IBM • Interview • neo4j
Using Graphs to Unlock Forensics: The 5-Minute Interview With Thomas Larsen
By Angela Zimmerman
September 9, 2022 3 mins read
Some of the most surprising results have been how easy it was to integrate it into our existing mature infrastructure, and then how quickly my team adopted it. I had a team of five, including myself, and all of them now use Neo4j on almost a daily basis. Even one gentleman who’s a bit skeptical of new tools and new technologies – he embraced it. And when he embraced it, I knew we had something special.
Explore: 5-minute interview • ABB • Analytics • Connected Data • Customer • forensics • graph database • graph technology • Interview • pilot
Graphs for Information Services: The 5-Minute Interview With Cyndi Streun
By Angela Zimmerman
August 25, 2022 2 mins read
Graphs are not just something for the researchers, for the universities. There’s a product out there, it’s applicable, it’s in production, it can scale if scale is necessary. It can give you the features you need, take your data, and explore it.
Explore: Federation of State Medical Boards • graph database • graph technology • Information Services • Interview • neo4j • relational database
How Graphs Power OpenSanctions: The 5-Minute Interview with Friedrich Lindenberg
By Angela Zimmerman
August 10, 2022 11 mins read
OpenSanctions is the brainchild of Friedrich Lindenberg. It uses graph technology to analyze different datasets to identify significant individuals around the globe – like politicians, their associates, and other persons of interest – giving investigators, businesses, journalists, and technologists an essential open source tool to optimize their work.
Explore: civic tech • Connected Data • Cybercrime • graph database • graph technology • Interview • OpenSanctions
From Collected Data to Connected Data: How Knowledge Graphs Are Changing the World
By Angela Zimmerman
August 5, 2022 15 mins read
If you’re still not quite sure about the value and application of graph databases, this enlightening interview will give you a greater understanding of how this technology is used. Get insights into what industries have already jumped on the graph bandwagon, and learn what makes knowledge graphs in particular so powerful.
Explore: APAC • business applications • Connected Data • graph database • graph technology • Interview • knowledge graphs
How Graphs Crystallize Connections: The 5-Minute Interview With Brandon Campbell
By Angela Zimmerman
July 27, 2022 3 mins read
“Graphs are just really beautiful to look at. The structure of them is almost crystalline sometimes. Seeing knowledge and abstract concepts turned into something you can look at is exciting to me,” says Brandon Campbell, Ontologist & Graph Architect at Northrop Grumman.
Explore: 5-minute interview • Developer • graph database • graph ontology • graph technology • graph visualization • Interview • ontology
Developers.Zed: The LinkedIn for Developers in Zambia
By Angela Zimmerman
June 27, 2022 5 mins read
We had the pleasure of speaking with Kacha Mukabe, who is a grand winner of the 2021 Leonhard Euler Idea Contest for his innovative project using Neo4j graphs at Developers.Zed.
Explore: contest • customer use case • cypher • developer community • Developers.Zed • GRANDstack • graph database • GraphQL • Interview • Leonard Euler
Driven by Graph’s Extraordinary Impact: Emil Eifrem on His Life’s Work
By Angela Zimmerman
May 26, 2022 12 mins read
Want a dose of authentic inspiration from the man himself? Our CEO and Co-founder Emil Eifrem conceived of the first graph database on the back of a napkin on a flight to Mumbai over 20 years ago. What happened after that?
Explore: emil eifrem • graph data science • graph database • graph technology • Graphs4Good • icij • Interview • investigative journalism • neo4j • Panama Papers
Please Welcome Chandra Rangan, Neo4j’s Chief Marketing Officer!
By Angela Zimmerman
May 10, 2022 12 mins read
I couldn’t be more excited to welcome Chandra Rangan, Neo4j’s new Chief Marketing Officer, to our company and community. This role is essential as we continue to evolve globally and expand across industries. With graph technology exploding – and Neo4j… Read more →
Explore: category creator • Chief Marketing Officer • CMO • emil eifrem • graph database • Interview • neo4j • Nodes of Neo4j
Stefan Wendin With Stratazon’s Justo Boero Delbanco and Henrik Johansson
By Angela Zimmerman
April 8, 2022 17 mins read
If you want to learn from experts in the graph space, you’ve come to the right place. The head of Neo4j’s Innovation Lab, Stefan Wendin, sat down with two executives at Stratazon, a Malmo-based international trade and development company that uses graph technology to develop valuable tactics for their clients.
Explore: customer experience • customer journey • data insights • data-driven decision making • graph platform • graph technology • Interview • real-time analysis • real-time data analytics • Stratazon
Neo4j Won Prestigious Data Breakthrough Award for AuraDB!
By Angela Zimmerman
March 29, 2022 3 mins read
We’re thrilled that Neo4j’s AuraDB solution was named “Cross Infrastructure Analytics Solution of the Year” in the third annual Data Breakthrough Awards program!
Explore: Analytics • AuraDB • AuraDB Free • cloud • Data Breakthrough Award • Interview • Neo4j AuraDB Enterprise
Neo4j’s Emil Eifrem and FirstMark’s Matt Turck on the Graph Database Explosion
By Angela Zimmerman
March 15, 2022 23 mins read
At this year’s Data Driven NYC, Neo4j CEO and Co-Founder Emil Eifrem sat down with Matt Turck of FirstMark, and they discussed the evolution and explosion of the graph database space.
Explore: Connected Data • Data Driven NYC • emil eifrem • graph database • graph technology • Interview • neo4j
Graphie Graphs4Good in Medical Research: 5–Minute Interview with HealthECCO
By Angela Zimmerman
February 25, 2022 7 mins read
Let’s hear it for HealthECCO and their groundbreaking medical research using Graphs4Good which won the team a 2021 Graphie Award!
Explore: covid-19 • graph data science • graph data science library • Graphie Award • HealthECCO • Interview • Knowledge Graph • medical research
This Week in Neo4j – Live Streaming Graphs
By Alexander Erdl
February 12, 2022 4 mins read
Check out what’s new this week in Neo4j, including building Neo4j app with Node.js and conversation with Neo4j CEO Emil Eifrem.
Explore: code • emil eifrem • graph visualization • Interview • Knowledge Graph • livestreams • Music • neo4j • node.js • ontologies
Please Welcome Patrick Pichette – Inovia Partner, Former CFO at Google, and Current Twitter Board Member – to the Neo4j Board
By Angela Zimmerman
November 9, 2021 19 mins read
It is our pleasure to announce that Patrick Pichette – partner at Inovia Capital, former CFO at Google, and currently the Board Chair at Twitter – has joined the Neo4j Board of Directors.
Explore: Board of Directors • Connected Data • emil eifrem • google • graph database • Interview • neo4j • Patrick Pichette • twitter