Neo4j GraphTour Europe 2019: Neo4j Graph Use Cases, Bruno Ungermann, Sales Director Germany & Switzerland, Neo4j

1. Neo4j Use Cases

2. State of the Graph in DACH
Adoption +3-5 years

3. “Forrester estimates that over
25% of enterprises will be using
graph databases by 2017.”
Forrester, 2014

4. “8 DAX companies (26%) incl. Daimler,
Lufthansa, BASF and Bayer are using
Neo4j. At least 10 are evaluating.
(Neo4j Enterprise only numbers)

5. Top 3 reasons for using Neo4j?
Correct Answer wins T-Shirt

6. Need to capture complexity
Flexibility / Agility
Performance

7. Need to capture complexity
Flexibility / Agility
Performance

8. Complexity/Connectedness

14. ... Concept Design & Analysis Development Production Process Budget Marketing Product Mgt Customer Feedback ...
Design
CRM
ERP
Budget
Electrical Models
Document Mgt
CAD
PLM
Manufacturing
Product Management
Design
Marketing
Product DNA, Product 360
Metadata
R&D
Testdata
User Requirements

15. Need to capture complexity
Flexibility / Agility
Performance

16. Need to capture complexity
Flexibility / Agility
Performance

17. The US space agency uses Neo4j for their
“Lessons Learned” database to connect
information to improve search ability
effectiveness in space mission.
Knowledge Graph
Finding critical information through a Knowledge Graph
LLIS required you to punch in a keyword which would then produce an
endless, randomly arranged list of links to documents, every one of which
needed to be checked one by one—a process so tedious that NASA
engineers hardly ever consulted the system.

18. NASA’s Lessons Learned Database Graph Model
David Meza
Chief Knowledge Architect

20. Starting Small, Rapid Results, Step-by-Step Extension

21. Need to capture complexity
Flexibility / Agility
Performance

22. Need to capture complexity
Flexibility / Agility
Performance

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• Record “Cyber Monday” sales
• About 35M daily transactions
• Each transaction is 3-22 hops
• Queries executed in 4ms or less
• Replaced IBM Websphere commerce
• 300M pricing operations per day
• 10x transaction throughput on half the
hardware compared to Oracle
• Replaced Oracle database
• Large postal service with over 500k
employees
• Neo4j routes 7M+ packages daily at peak,
with peaks of 5,000+ routing operations per
second.
Delivering real-time performance at scale
Real-time promotion
recommendations
Marriott’s Real-time
Pricing Engine
Handling Package
Routing in Real-Time

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Common Use Case Categories
Network & IT Operations
Application Management
Meta Data ManagementReal-Time
Recommendations
Identity & Access Mgt.
Security
Knowledge
Management
Fraud Detection, AML
Compliance, GDPR

25. Use cases on https://neo4j.com/use-cases/

26. Customer stories on https://neo4j.com/customers/

27. Some Examples

28. Use Case we are particularly proud of: Medical Research

30. Secure Collaboration: protecting data using Neo4j

31. Insurance companies lose an estimated $30 Billion per year in fraud costs

32. AI / ML : Only Great Theory?

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