GraphDay Stockholm February 2017 iKnow Solutions

1. The Value Add of Graphs to Analytics and
Information Management

2. iKnow Solutions – short intro

3. iKnow Solutions - Our core skills

5. Why Neo4j?

6. A hard question to ask a relational DB…
Find friends of 3rd degree

7. SELECT P.Name, P3.Name FROM Person P
JOIN PersonFriend F1 ON P.PersonID =
F1.PersonID JOIN PersonFriend F2 ON
F1.FriendID = F2.PersonID JOIN PersonFriend F3
ON F2.FriendID = F3.PersonID
JOIN Person P3 ON F2.F3.PersonID =
P3.PersonID
MATCH (a:Person)-[:KNOWS*3..3]->(b)
RETURN a.name.b.name
SQL
Neo4j

8. Everything is Connected to Everything Else

9. Connecting people
Calls
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phone
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phone
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phone
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phone
Calls
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email
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email
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email
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email
Sends
email
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email
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B
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Meets
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email

10. Impact Analysis
Which elements have the most
dependencies?

11. Master Data Management
New relationships
are easily reflected

12. Connecting the Data Lake

13. Recommendations
Without a graph database, you can still create a
representation of a graph to be used for
recommendations.
But, that will be a static representation, and will
not be able to take into account events in the
current session.

14. Cognitive Analytucs
Neural Networks

15. Thank you