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Internationalization with CypherMessageSource, Spring and Neo4j

29 Sep 2016 by Eric Spiegelberg, Guest Author · 6 min read Neo4j SDN Cypher Spring

Whether you realize it or not, the software you create has a global market. Perhaps more so than any other product in any other industry,code that may start as a small, individual effort has the potential to rapidly blossom into a product used around the world.While it is not always obvious that your application can or will have such wide usage, it is in your best interest to maximizethe number of organizations and people you can reach. This means it is important to ensure your software is internationalized and localized.

Neo4j as a Key Player in Human Capital Management

19 Jul 2016 by Luanne Misquitta · 7 min read Neo4j Knowledge Graph

In the Bersin Predictions for 2016 report, Josh Bersin states that “it feels as though everything in the world of talent is changing – from the way we recruit and attract people, as well as how we reward them, to the way we learn, and how we curate and manage our entire work-life experience”[1].

Mining and Searching Text with Graph Databases

07 Jul 2016 by Alessandro Negro · 11 min read Neo4j GraphAware NLP Search Advanced

A great part of the world’s knowledge is stored using text in natural language, but using it in an effective way isstill a major challenge. Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques provide the basis for harnessing this huge amountof data and converting it into a useful source of knowledge for further processing.

Graph-Aided Search - The Rise of Personalised Content

20 Apr 2016 by Alessandro Negro, Christophe Willemsen · 26 min read Neo4j Cypher Recommendations Elasticsearch

In our previous blog postwe introduced the concept of Graph Aided Search. It refers to a personalised user experience during search where theresults are customised for each user based on information gathered about them (likes, friends, clicks, buying history, etc.).This information is stored in a graph database and processed using machine learning and/or graph analysis algorithms.

Neo4j OGM Events - Part 1

13 Apr 2016 by Vince Bickers · 13 min read Neo4j OGM SDN Intermediate

As of version 2.1, Neo4j OGM will support persistence events. Although a date for the release of 2.1 isn’t known at thetime of writing, we think this is an important and exciting new feature and so we’ll be writing a series of posts aboutit over the next few weeks to whet your appetites. In this first post we’ll take a quick tour of the new Events mechanismin the OGM, and provide some examples of how we might use it in our own applications. But first, some background…

Securing Neo4j with GraphAware Enterprise

29 Mar 2016 by Michal Bachman · 0 min read Neo4j GraphAware Intermediate Security

For most organisations, data security is extremely important. The topic comes up every single time we are training, consulting,or otherwise engaging in the world of graphs and Neo4j. At the same time, security is very difficult and time-consuming to get rightand the implications of getting it wrong can be serious. In this blog post, we introduce the integration of Spring Securityinto Neo4j which provides important security controls and mechanisms for enterprises and governments that make use of theworld’s most popular graph database.

Expiring Data in Neo4j

15 Mar 2016 by Michal Bachman · 3 min read Neo4j GraphAware Intermediate

At GraphAware, we help organisations in a wide range of verticals solve problems with graphs.Once we come across a requirement or use case two or three different times, we typically create an open-source Neo4j extensionthat addresses it. The latest addition to our product portfolio, introduced in this post, is a simple library that automaticallyexpires data from the Neo4j graph database.