Neo Technology Kicks off GraphConnect 2014 With Record Number of Attendees

SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 22, 2014) - Neo Technology, creators of Neo4j, the world's leading graph database, today kicked off its annual GraphConnect conference in San Francisco, expecting to draw a record 700 graph thought leaders, researchers and developers from around the globe. This sold out conference will feature presenters from Neo Technology, eBay, CrunchBase, Pitney Bowes and others, representing a variety of verticals, industries and use cases. Growing interest in GraphConnect directly maps to Neo Technology's significant momentum and increasing demand for high performance databases that can scale to meet the needs of today's enterprise applications.

Continued Product Innovation and Domination
"Over the past year we've experienced tremendous growth in all aspects of our business -- both in the US and internationally," said Emil Eifrem, CEO of Neo Technology. "We continue to enhance our Neo4j product, add new enterprise customers to our client roster, and grow our community with record number of downloads and deeper engagement. Our strong momentum -- and record turnout for GraphConnect 2014 -- speaks to the explosive demand for Neo4j as the use cases for graph databases continues to broaden and accelerate."

Neo4j, a robust, flexible and scalable graph database, is the industry's only database capable of solving the complex, connected data challenges that enterprise application developers face today. Neo4j is also designed to ease graph database adoption for organizations with massive amounts of data in relational databases. The technology makes it easier than ever for enterprises to unlock the hidden value of their data with the ability to leverage millions of connections.

According to leading analyst firm Gartner, "Graph analysis is possibly the single most effective competitive differentiator for organizations pursuing data-driven operations and decisions after the design of data capture."¹

Today Neo Technology clients comprise more than 50 global 2000 companies including an impressive list of enterprise companies such as Accenture, Cisco, HP, Advent Software, Serena Software, Pitney Bowes, Tre, Telenor, CenturyLink, UBS, Nomura Holdings, ADP, Thomson Reuters, eBay, Walmart, Scripps Networks, Leo Burnett, CrunchBase, Gamesys, Polyvore, Medium, Elementum and FiftyThree. These customers demonstrate that as the world of data explodes in volume and complexity, more and more companies are bringing on trusted, "enterprise ready" tools like Neo4j to handle their complex, ever-changing data.