Neo Technology Announces Neo4j Webinars Featuring Intuit and Squidoo

GraphConnect 2012 Speakers to Discuss Neo4j in Lead Up to First-Ever Graph Database Conference


SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 17, 2012) - Neo Technology, creators of Neo4j, the world's leading graph database, today announced it is hosting two webinars this month featuring Intuit and Squidoo. Both events will provide use cases on the implementation of Neo4j to leverage the power of connected data. The webinars will feature speakers of this year's GraphConnect, the first conference to focus on the rapidly growing world of graph databases. The conference will be held November 5-6th in San Francisco.

Event Details At-A-Glance

Webinar: How Intuit Uses Neo4j

Learn how Intuit leveraged its data using a graph database, in order to discover and enable relationships between businesses in its eco-system. The graph helps Intuit's customers to find better deals, reach out to their own customers, and discover relationships latent in the product data. The talk will discuss:

  • How Neo4j was used to find answers to these questions in real time
  • Discovering the latent network existing between Small Businesses through the different interactions that they go through
  • Finding common interest based communities

Who: Gokuldas Pillai, Lead Engineer at Intuit
When: Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 at 10 a.m. PDT / 19:00 CET (Central Europe)
Register at: http://info.neotechnology.com/1018-register2.html

Webinar: Neo4j at Seth Godin's Squidoo

Learn how Neo4j was implemented to power Postcards, the new interest graph enabled product from popular social publishing platform Squidoo. Gain insight as to why Neo4j was chosen over Squidoo's existing MySQL and Cassandra database technologies. The talk will discuss:

  • What the first week of development with a graph database looked like
  • Simple tips to get up to speed on graph design more quickly
  • How Neo4j can be used to enable the Semantic Web
  • In-depth look at Squidoo's Postcards graph design

Who: Gild Hildebrand, Chief Engineer at Squidoo
When: Thursday, Oct. 25, 2012 at 10 a.m. PDT / 19:00 CET (Central Europe)
Register at: http://info.neotechnology.com/1025-register.html 

Useful Links

Neo Technology Presents GraphConnect 2012
GraphConnect 2012 San Francisco is the first conference ever to bring together the rapidly growing community and ecosystem around graph databases. Held from November 5-6, 2012, the event is set to bring together graph thought leaders, researchers and developers from around the globe. For more information and to receive updates on topics, tracks and session availability or submit a proposal, please visit http://www.graphconnect.com.

About Neo Technology
Graphs are everywhere. From websites adding social capabilities to Telco's providing personalized customer services to innovative bioinformatics research, organizations are adopting graph databases as the best way to model and query connected data. Neo Technology researchers have pioneered graph databases since 2000 and have been instrumental in bringing the power of the social graph to customers such as Adobe, Cisco, and Deutsche Telekom. Now in production for nine years, Neo4j is the world's leading graph database with the largest ecosystem of partners and tens of thousands of successful deployments worldwide.

Neo Technology is a privately held company funded by Fidelity Growth Partners Europe, Sunstone Capital and Conor Venture Partners, and is headquartered in San Mateo, CA, with offices in Sweden, UK, Germany, and Malaysia. For more information, please visit www.neotechnology.com

Contact Information:

Contact:
Julie Tangen
Kulesa Faul for Neo Technology
(831) 251 3450