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Graph Solutions PoC to Production: Overcoming the Barriers to Success (Part I)
Part I: A Review of Why Graph PoCs Struggle to Demonstrate Success or Progress to Production This is Part 1 of a two-part series on graph database PoC success and production deployment. Introduction I began my journey with graphs … Continue reading
Semantic Layer Strategy for Linked Data Investigations
A government organization sought to more effectively exploit their breadth of data generated by investigation activity of criminal networks for comprehensive case building and threat trend analysis. EK engaged with the client to develop a strategy and product vision for their semantic solution, paired with foundational semantic data models for meaningful data categorization and linking, architecture designs and tool recommendations for integrating and leveraging graph data, and entitlements designs for adhering to complex security standards. Continue reading
Women’s Health Foundation – Semantic Classification POC
A humanitarian foundation focusing on women’s health faced a complex problem: determining the highest impact decision points in contraception adoption for specific markets and demographics. Two strategic objectives drove the initiative—first, understanding the multifaceted factors (from product attributes to social influences) that guide women’s contraceptive choices, and second, identifying actionable insights from disparate data sources. The key challenge was integrating internal survey response data with internal investment documents to answer nuanced competency questions such as, “What are the most frequently cited factors when considering a contraceptive method?” and “Which factors most strongly influence adoption or rejection?” This required a system that could not only ingest and organize heterogeneous data but also enable executives to visualize and act upon insights derived from complex cross-document analyses. Continue reading
Cutting Through the Noise: An Introduction to RDF & LPG Graphs
Graph is good. From capturing business understanding to support standardization and data analytics to informing more accurate LLM results through Graph-RAG, knowledge graphs are an important component of how modern businesses translate data and content into actionable knowledge and information. … Continue reading
Unlocking Knowledge Intelligence from Unstructured Data
Introduction Organizations generate, source, and consume vast amounts of unstructured data every day, including emails, reports, research documents, technical documentation, marketing materials, learning content and customer interactions. However, this wealth of information often remains hidden and siloed, making it challenging … Continue reading
What are the Different Types of Graphs? The Most Common Misconceptions and Understanding Their Applications
Over 80% of enterprise data remains unstructured, and with the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), traditional relational databases are becoming less effective at capturing the richness of organizational knowledge assets, institutional knowledge, and interconnected data. In modern enterprise data solutions, … Continue reading
The Resource Description Framework (RDF)
Simply defined, a knowledge graph is a network of entities, their attributes, and how they’re related to one another. While these networks can be captured and stored in a variety of formats, most implementations leverage a graph based tool or … Continue reading
Multimodal Graph RAG (mmGraphRAG): Incorporating Vision in Search and Analytics
David Hughes, Principal Data & AI Solution Architect at Enterprise Knowledge, presented “Unleashing the Power of Multimodal GraphRAG: Integrating Image Features for Deeper Insights” at Data Day Texas 2025 in Austin, TX on Saturday, January 25th. In this presentation, Hughes … Continue reading
A Guide to Selecting the Right Auto-Tagging Approach
Auto-tagging processes automate the manual labor of applying relevant keyword tags to data and content, enhancing accessibility and improving the organization of large datasets. Whether you’re trying to improve how quickly you find data or embarking on a content cleanup … Continue reading
Enhancing Retail Performance with Semantic Layer As an Enabler for Data and Analytics Teams
In the fast-paced retail sector, organizations need to be able to quickly view store performance analytics in order to make crucial decisions. A leading global retail chain faced significant delays of up to 5-6 weeks when attempting to retrieve essential store performance metrics and create reports for executive leadership. This bottleneck was largely due to … Continue reading