Cerved is an Italian data and analytics company. It uses graph databases and network analysis to better understand complex relationships within data from over 50 sources. Cerved started using graph databases in 2011 to improve an algorithm, and has expanded usage to better link corporate data and power solutions through visualization and machine learning algorithms on graph data. Graph databases allow flexible and connected modeling of Cerved's data, and native graph storage and processing improves querying, integration, and analysis compared to relational databases.