Use cases
Neo4j - The Graph Company
7
00+
7/10
12/25
8/10
53K+
100+
300+
450+
Adoption
Top Retail Firms
Top Financial Firms
Top Software Vendors
Customers Partners
• Creator of the Neo4j Graph Platform
• ~260 employees
• HQ in Silicon Valley, other offices include
London, Munich, Paris and Malmö
(Sweden)
• $80M in funding from Fidelity, Sunstone,
Conor, Creandum, and Greenbridge
Capital
• Over 10M+ downloads,
• 275+ enterprise subscription customers
with over half with >$1B in revenue
Ecosystem
Startups in program
Enterprise customers
Partners
Meet up members
Events per year
Industry’s Largest Dedicated Investment in Graphs
“Neo4j continues to
dominate the graph
database market.”
69% of enterprises plan to implement graph
databases within the next 12 months.
Noel Yuhanna
Forrester Market Overview:
Graph Database Vendors
October 2017
Graph Market Acceleration
Neo4j — Changing the World
ICIJ used Neo4j to uncover the world’s largest
journalistic leak to date, The Panama Papers,
exposing criminals, corruption and extensive
tax evasion.
The US space agency uses Neo4j for their
“Lessons Learned” database to connect
information to improve search ability
effectiveness in space mission.
eBay uses Neo4j to enable machine
learning through knowledge graphs
powering “conversational commerce”.
Knowledge Graph for AIFraud Detection Knowledge Graph for humans
Why Neo4j?
The #1 Platform for Connected Data
6
Real-Time
Recommendations
Fraud
Detection
Network &
IT Operations
Master Data
Management
Knowledge
Graph
Identity & Access
Management
Common Graph Technology Use Cases
AirBnb
Neoj4’s Amazing Customers
NASA explores graph database
for deep insights into space
International Consortium of Investigative
Journalists
Wins Pulitzer Prize
Johnson Space Center
Houston, Texas
“Lessons Learned Database”
A half-century of collective NASA engineering knowledge
“Lessons Learned”
Database
GRAPH DB
Load Data
“Lessons Learned”
Database
GRAPH DB
Load Data
Let’s Hear a Few Stories
Impact
Let’s Hear a Few Stories
— David Meza, Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA
“Neo4j saved well over two
years of work and one million
dollars of taxpayer funds.”
Impact
Use cases on https://neo4j.com/use-cases/
Business Problem
• Optimize walmart.com user experience
• Connect complex buyer and product data to gain
super-fast insight into customer needs and
product trends
• RDBMS couldn’t handle complex queries
Solution and Benefits
• Replaced complex batch process real-time online
recommendations
• Built simple, real-time recommendation system
with low-latency queries
• Serve better and faster recommendations by
combining historical and session data
Background
• Founded in 1962 and based in Arkansas
• 11,000+ stores in 27 countries with walmart.com
online store
• 2M+ employees and $470 billion in annual
revenues
Walmart RETAIL
Real-Time Recommendations18
Background
• One of the world’s largest logistics carriers
• Projected to outgrow capacity of old system
• New parcel routing system
Single source of truth for entire network
B2C and B2B parcel tracking
Real-time routing: up to 7M parcels per day
Business Problem
• Needed 365x24x7 availability
• Peak loads of 3000+ parcels per second
• Complex and diverse software stack
• Need predictable performance, linear scalability
• Daily changes to logistics network: route from any
point to any point
Solution and Benefits
• Ideal domain fit: a logistics network is a graph
• Extreme availability, performance via clustering
• Greatly simplified routing queries vs. relational
• Flexible data model reflect real-world data variance
much better than relational
• Whiteboard-friendly model easy to understand
Accenture LOGISTICS
19 Real-Time Routing Recommendations
Background
• Large global bank
• Deploying Reference Data to users and
systems
• 12 data domains, 18 datasets, 400+
integrations
• Complex data management infrastructure
Business Problem
• Master data silos were inflexible and hard to
consume
• Needed simplification to reduce redundancy
• Reduce risk when data is in consumers’
hands
• Dramatically improve efficiency
Solution and Benefits
• Data distribution flows improved dramatically
• Knowledge Base improves consumer access
• Ad-hoc analytics improved
• Governance, lineage and trust improved
• Better service level from IT to data
consumers
UBS FINANCIAL SERVICES
Master Data Management / Metadata20
CE Customer since 2016 QEE Customer since 2015
Background
• Large Nordic Telecom Provider
• 1M Broadband routers deployed in Sweden
• Half of subscribership are over 55yrs old
• Each household connects 10 devices
• Goal to improve customer experience
Business Problem
• Broadband router enhancement to improve
customer experience
• Context-based in home services
• How to build smart home platform that allows
vendors to build new “home-centric” apps
Solution and Benefits
• New Features deployed to 1M homes
• API-based platform for easy apps that:
• Automatically assemble Spotify playlists
based on who is in the house
• Notify parents when children get home
• Build smart shopping lists
TELIA ZONE TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Smart Home / Internet of Things21
EE Customer since 2016 Q
Background
• World's largest hospitality / hotel company
• 7th largest web site on internet
• 1.5 M hotel rooms offered online by 2018
• Revenue Management System that allows
property managers to update their pricing rates
Business Problem
• Provide the right room & price at the right time
• Old rate program was inflexible and bogged
down as they increased the pricing options per
property per day
• Lay the path to be an innovator in the future
Solution and Benefits
• 2016-era rate program embeds Neo4j as
"cache"
• Created a graph per hotel for 4500 properties
in 3 clusters
• 1000% increase in volume over 4 years
• 50% decrease in infrastructure costs
• "Use Neo4j Support!"
MARRIOTT TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY
SERVICES
Pricing Recommendations Engine22
EE Customer since 2014 Q2
Background
• Personal shopping assistant
• Converses with buyer via text, picture and
voice to provide real-time recommendations
• Combines AI and natural language
understanding (NLU) in Neo4j Knowledge
Graph
• First of many apps in eBay's AI Platform
Business Problem
• Improve personal context in online shopping
• Transform buyer-provided context into ideal
purchase recommendations over social
platforms
• "Feels like talking to a friend"
Solution and Benefits
• 3 developers, 8M nodes, 20M relationships
• Needed high-performance traversals to
respond to live customer requests
• Easy to train new algorithms and grow model
• Generating revenue since launch
eBay ShopBot ONLINE RETAIL
Knowledge Graph powers Real-Time Recommendations23
EE Customer since 2016 Q3
Bags
Men’s Backpack
Handbag
Use case: Knowledge Graphs
Use case: Fraud Analytics
Use case: Identity and Access Management
Use case: Master data management
Use case: Network and IT Operations
Use case: Real-time Recommendations
Use case: Social Networks
Use case: Graph-based AI & Analytics
Popular Graph Technology Use Cases for AI and Analytics
Customer stories on https://neo4j.com/customers/
Software
Financial
Services Teleco
m
Retail &
Consumer Goods
Media &
Entertainment Other Industries
Airbus
Fantastic Case Studies
from
GraphTour 2018
42 https://www.slideshare.net/neo4j/volvo-cars-build-a-car-with-neo4j
43
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44
https://www.slideshare.net/neo4j/graphtour-madrid-running-neo4j-on-a-large-scale-image-platform
45
https://www.slideshare.net/neo4j/graphtour-integrating-neo4j-in-ing-luxembourgs-environment
46
https://www.slideshare.net/neo4j/graphtour-workday-tracking-activity-with-neo4j-english-version
47
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48 https://www.slideshare.net/neo4j/graphtour-mastering-highly-distributed-architecture-with-neo4j
49 https://www.slideshare.net/neo4j/decyphering-recipes-with-neo4j
50
https://www.slideshare.net/neo4j/generali-fraud-analytics
51
https://www.slideshare.net/neo4j/daimler-ag-structurecube-die-gklasse-im-sumpf-der-strukturen
IN SUMMARY!
Development &
Administration
Analytics
Tooling
Graph
Analytics
Graph
Transactions
Data Integration
Discovery & VisualizationDrivers & APIs
A
I
Neo4j Database
• 50% faster writes
• Real-time transactions
and traversal applications
The Neo4j Graph Platform surrounds Neo4j
Neo4j Desktop, the
developers’ mission
control console
• Free, registered local license
of Enterprise Edition
• APOC library installer
• Algorithm library installer
Data Integration
• Neo4j ETL reveals RDBMS
hidden relationships upon
importing to graph
• Data Importer for fast data
ingestion
• Data Lake integrator
materializes graphs from
Apache Hadoop, Hive and
Spark
Graph Analytics
• Graph Algorithms support
PageRank, Centrality and
Path Finding
• Cypher for Apache Spark
from openCypher.org
supports graph composition
(sub-graphs) and algorithm
chaining
Discovery &
Visualization
• Integration with popular
visualization vendors
• Neo4j Browser and custom
visualizations allow graph
exploration
Bolt, GraphQL, Java and more
• Secure, Causal Clustering
• High-speed analytic processing
• On-prem, Docker & cloud delivery
Native Graph Database
Technology
Internet-scale, native graph database
which executes connected workloads
faster than any other database
management system.
Neo4j – Fastest Path to Graph Success
Highest Investment in
Customer Success
Largest ecosystem of solutions and
graph based services to reduce
learning curve and time to market
Innovation Network
Highest concentration of Graph
Innovators, Experts, Analysts and
Developers.
Questions?

GraphTour - Popular Use Cases

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    Neo4j - TheGraph Company 7 00+ 7/10 12/25 8/10 53K+ 100+ 300+ 450+ Adoption Top Retail Firms Top Financial Firms Top Software Vendors Customers Partners • Creator of the Neo4j Graph Platform • ~260 employees • HQ in Silicon Valley, other offices include London, Munich, Paris and Malmö (Sweden) • $80M in funding from Fidelity, Sunstone, Conor, Creandum, and Greenbridge Capital • Over 10M+ downloads, • 275+ enterprise subscription customers with over half with >$1B in revenue Ecosystem Startups in program Enterprise customers Partners Meet up members Events per year Industry’s Largest Dedicated Investment in Graphs
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    “Neo4j continues to dominatethe graph database market.” 69% of enterprises plan to implement graph databases within the next 12 months. Noel Yuhanna Forrester Market Overview: Graph Database Vendors October 2017 Graph Market Acceleration
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    Neo4j — Changingthe World ICIJ used Neo4j to uncover the world’s largest journalistic leak to date, The Panama Papers, exposing criminals, corruption and extensive tax evasion. The US space agency uses Neo4j for their “Lessons Learned” database to connect information to improve search ability effectiveness in space mission. eBay uses Neo4j to enable machine learning through knowledge graphs powering “conversational commerce”. Knowledge Graph for AIFraud Detection Knowledge Graph for humans
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    Why Neo4j? The #1Platform for Connected Data
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    6 Real-Time Recommendations Fraud Detection Network & IT Operations MasterData Management Knowledge Graph Identity & Access Management Common Graph Technology Use Cases AirBnb
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    Neoj4’s Amazing Customers NASAexplores graph database for deep insights into space International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Wins Pulitzer Prize
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    “Lessons Learned Database” Ahalf-century of collective NASA engineering knowledge
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    Let’s Hear aFew Stories Impact
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    Let’s Hear aFew Stories — David Meza, Chief Knowledge Architect at NASA “Neo4j saved well over two years of work and one million dollars of taxpayer funds.” Impact
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    Use cases onhttps://neo4j.com/use-cases/
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    Business Problem • Optimizewalmart.com user experience • Connect complex buyer and product data to gain super-fast insight into customer needs and product trends • RDBMS couldn’t handle complex queries Solution and Benefits • Replaced complex batch process real-time online recommendations • Built simple, real-time recommendation system with low-latency queries • Serve better and faster recommendations by combining historical and session data Background • Founded in 1962 and based in Arkansas • 11,000+ stores in 27 countries with walmart.com online store • 2M+ employees and $470 billion in annual revenues Walmart RETAIL Real-Time Recommendations18
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    Background • One ofthe world’s largest logistics carriers • Projected to outgrow capacity of old system • New parcel routing system Single source of truth for entire network B2C and B2B parcel tracking Real-time routing: up to 7M parcels per day Business Problem • Needed 365x24x7 availability • Peak loads of 3000+ parcels per second • Complex and diverse software stack • Need predictable performance, linear scalability • Daily changes to logistics network: route from any point to any point Solution and Benefits • Ideal domain fit: a logistics network is a graph • Extreme availability, performance via clustering • Greatly simplified routing queries vs. relational • Flexible data model reflect real-world data variance much better than relational • Whiteboard-friendly model easy to understand Accenture LOGISTICS 19 Real-Time Routing Recommendations
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    Background • Large globalbank • Deploying Reference Data to users and systems • 12 data domains, 18 datasets, 400+ integrations • Complex data management infrastructure Business Problem • Master data silos were inflexible and hard to consume • Needed simplification to reduce redundancy • Reduce risk when data is in consumers’ hands • Dramatically improve efficiency Solution and Benefits • Data distribution flows improved dramatically • Knowledge Base improves consumer access • Ad-hoc analytics improved • Governance, lineage and trust improved • Better service level from IT to data consumers UBS FINANCIAL SERVICES Master Data Management / Metadata20 CE Customer since 2016 QEE Customer since 2015
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    Background • Large NordicTelecom Provider • 1M Broadband routers deployed in Sweden • Half of subscribership are over 55yrs old • Each household connects 10 devices • Goal to improve customer experience Business Problem • Broadband router enhancement to improve customer experience • Context-based in home services • How to build smart home platform that allows vendors to build new “home-centric” apps Solution and Benefits • New Features deployed to 1M homes • API-based platform for easy apps that: • Automatically assemble Spotify playlists based on who is in the house • Notify parents when children get home • Build smart shopping lists TELIA ZONE TELECOMMUNICATIONS Smart Home / Internet of Things21 EE Customer since 2016 Q
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    Background • World's largesthospitality / hotel company • 7th largest web site on internet • 1.5 M hotel rooms offered online by 2018 • Revenue Management System that allows property managers to update their pricing rates Business Problem • Provide the right room & price at the right time • Old rate program was inflexible and bogged down as they increased the pricing options per property per day • Lay the path to be an innovator in the future Solution and Benefits • 2016-era rate program embeds Neo4j as "cache" • Created a graph per hotel for 4500 properties in 3 clusters • 1000% increase in volume over 4 years • 50% decrease in infrastructure costs • "Use Neo4j Support!" MARRIOTT TRAVEL & HOSPITALITY SERVICES Pricing Recommendations Engine22 EE Customer since 2014 Q2
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    Background • Personal shoppingassistant • Converses with buyer via text, picture and voice to provide real-time recommendations • Combines AI and natural language understanding (NLU) in Neo4j Knowledge Graph • First of many apps in eBay's AI Platform Business Problem • Improve personal context in online shopping • Transform buyer-provided context into ideal purchase recommendations over social platforms • "Feels like talking to a friend" Solution and Benefits • 3 developers, 8M nodes, 20M relationships • Needed high-performance traversals to respond to live customer requests • Easy to train new algorithms and grow model • Generating revenue since launch eBay ShopBot ONLINE RETAIL Knowledge Graph powers Real-Time Recommendations23 EE Customer since 2016 Q3
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    Use case: FraudAnalytics
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    Use case: Identityand Access Management
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    Use case: Masterdata management
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    Use case: Networkand IT Operations
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    Use case: Real-timeRecommendations
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    Use case: Graph-basedAI & Analytics
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    Popular Graph TechnologyUse Cases for AI and Analytics
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    Customer stories onhttps://neo4j.com/customers/
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    Software Financial Services Teleco m Retail & ConsumerGoods Media & Entertainment Other Industries Airbus
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    Development & Administration Analytics Tooling Graph Analytics Graph Transactions Data Integration Discovery& VisualizationDrivers & APIs A I Neo4j Database • 50% faster writes • Real-time transactions and traversal applications The Neo4j Graph Platform surrounds Neo4j Neo4j Desktop, the developers’ mission control console • Free, registered local license of Enterprise Edition • APOC library installer • Algorithm library installer Data Integration • Neo4j ETL reveals RDBMS hidden relationships upon importing to graph • Data Importer for fast data ingestion • Data Lake integrator materializes graphs from Apache Hadoop, Hive and Spark Graph Analytics • Graph Algorithms support PageRank, Centrality and Path Finding • Cypher for Apache Spark from openCypher.org supports graph composition (sub-graphs) and algorithm chaining Discovery & Visualization • Integration with popular visualization vendors • Neo4j Browser and custom visualizations allow graph exploration Bolt, GraphQL, Java and more • Secure, Causal Clustering • High-speed analytic processing • On-prem, Docker & cloud delivery
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    Native Graph Database Technology Internet-scale,native graph database which executes connected workloads faster than any other database management system. Neo4j – Fastest Path to Graph Success Highest Investment in Customer Success Largest ecosystem of solutions and graph based services to reduce learning curve and time to market Innovation Network Highest concentration of Graph Innovators, Experts, Analysts and Developers.
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