Franz Inc. Press Room

Franz is a leading vendor of semantic technology tools featuring AllegroGraph and persistent dynamic object-oriented development tools including Allegro CL/CLOS with AllegroCache Object Database. AllegroGraph, Franz's high-performance, scalable, disk-based graph database, provides the solid storage layer for powerful GeoTemporal Reasoning, Social Network Analytics and Ontology Modeling capabilities for today's Web 3.0 applications.

Based in Oakland, California, Franz Inc. is an American owned company that delivers leading-edge development products that enable software developers to build flexible, scalable, semantic applications quickly and cost-effectively. Franz is committed to market-driven product development, the highest levels of product quality and responsive customer support and service. Franz has demonstrated consistent growth and profitability since inception.

Press Releases

• 4-February-2013: Enterprise Data World welcomes presentation by Jans Aasman, Franz's CEO
• 30-January-2013: Franz's CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at Text Analytics World in San Francisco
• 14-January-2013: Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS) the next venue for Franz Inc. presentation
• 11-September-2012: Franz's CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at SemTech '12 in London
• 20-August-2012: Franz Extends GRUFF, its RDF Browser for Data Discovery and Visual Query Building
• 15-August-2012: Franz's CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at NoSQL Now! 2012
• 13-August-2012: Franz's VP of Corporate Development, Sheng-Chuan Wu to be Keynote Speaker at Knowledge Technology Week 2012
• 23-July-2012: Franz Inc. Adds Symmetric Multi-Processing in Allegro CL^® v9.0
• 4-June-2012: Franz Inc. Adds Solr and MongoDB Integration to its Semantic Web Database
• 15-May-2012: Franz's CEO, Jans Aasman to Present at SemTech '12
• 15-September-2011: Franz Inc. and TopQuadrant Partner to Deliver Semantic Reporting System for the Oil and Gas Industry
• 16-August-2011: Franz's AllegroGraph Sets New Record - 1 Trillion RDF Triples
• 7-June-2011: Franz’s AllegroGraph^® Sets New Record on Intel^® Xeon^® E7 Platform
• 20-April-2011: ReadWrite Cloud, "5 Graph Databases to Consider"
• 18-April-2011: Information Management Newsletter, "Will Triple Stores Replace Relational Databases?"
• 9-March-2011: database Trends and Applications article, "NoSQL Option: Triplestore Databases"
• 7-December-2010: Franz Developer Wins Google AI Contest with Lisp Algorithm
• More Press Releases from the archive.

Conference Papers

STIDS-2010 Proceedings, Semantic Technologies for Intelligence, Defense, and Security, Fairfax, VA, USA, October 27-28, 2010: Semantic Real Time Intelligent Decision Automation , A Position Paper by Bill Guinn and Jans Aasman

Forrester Research Interviews Franz Inc.

"The Role of Social Network Analysis"

AllegroGraph at Work

Sample AllegroGraph Customers

News Articles

What One Trillion Means for the Semantic Web

InfoQ interviews Jans Aasman on how MongoGraph helps NoSQL Developers

Dr. Dobb's interviews CEO Jans Aasman - Catching Up with Lisp

V1 Magazine

GeoTemporal Reasoning in a Web 3.0 World, by Jans Aasman is a featured article in V1 Magazine

Venture Beat Article

Article on Franz - Read more about how AllegroGraph will become the foundation for the Semantic Web.