Neo4j acquires GraphAware as public procurement starts to push back on vendor lock-in
For fifteen years, Neo4j has made it clear that it's not a vertical software company, a BI vendor, or a fraud detection platform – it's a graph database and a set of analytics tools, and customers can build whatever they want on top.
On June 3, that position changed when Neo4j announced its acquisition of GraphAware – a ten-year partner whose Hume intelligence analysis platform already runs natively on Neo4j. The press release angle was about Palantir Gotham and the appetite for sovereign alternatives in government. Speaking to Sudhir Hasbe, Neo4j's President and Chief Product Officer, it's a much broader picture:
For many years, we have talked about getting into verticalized solutions and solution offerings. And we have always stayed away from that, saying that we are a database and an analytics platform company. But coming into last year, especially with AI taking off, we just felt that this was...
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