GraphTalk Berlin - Neo4j und FirstSpirit

Christoph Feddersen

Neo4j and FirstSpirit

About e-Spirit

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e-Spirit world-wide

Projects

USA

Boston

Chicago

San Diego

Germany

Austria

Switzerland

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Founded in 1999

Over 1,200 employees in the company

Over 180 employees at CMS division

More than 20,000 projects

More than 1,000 brands

Recognized in Magic Quadrant since 2011

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About FirstSpirit

Why a Graph Database?

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Reference

Menu Folder

SectionsMediaFolder

Media

Data Modell

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So what‘s the use case?

WCM is not a suite story,

it is an integration story

“There will always be a need for Web CMS," the analysts said. "But over time,

there is going to be a much bigger need for enterprise-grade process-driven

products that leverage digital asset management, personalization, e-commerce and

BPM — situations in which WCM is simply a mechanism for exposing content."

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Portal

Neo4J

Java-API

REST

Push Change Events

Pull

Content/Media

FirstSpirit

Object Service

Architecture

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Embeddable

It’s easy to identify changes

Commercial Support

Mature Solution

Why Neo4j?

Use the Java-API if performance is important

Automated tests are important

Lessons Learned

Keep an eye on the changes between 1.x and 2.x

Neo4j saves a lot of work

Use for real-time personalization

Recommendations

Future

Allow writes from other applications

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Thank you for your attention

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