metaphacts acquires VISmart and enriches metaphactory with Sputniq, the commercial version of Ontodia

Walldorf, Germany, September 03, 2019 – metaphacts, creator of the leading knowledge graph platform metaphactory, today announced the acquisition of VISmart Ltd. VISmart is the company behind Ontodia, an open-source platform for exploration and visualization of graph-based data. Prior to the acquisition, metaphacts integrated Sputniq, the commercial version of Ontodia, into the metaphactory platform. The VISmart team has joined metaphacts to strengthen its software engineering team and to support the expansion of consulting and support services worldwide.

The collaboration between metaphacts and VISmart goes back to 2015. The successful software engineering partnership led to several joint customer projects and was followed by a joint venture, which aimed at extending and commercializing Ontodia to cater to specific customer needs. This resulted in Sputniq, a flexible and extendable software solution for data exploration, data analytics, visual data authoring and knowledge sharing.

Sputniq allows customers to tap into and smoothly interact with all of their graph data. It enables customers to turn raw data into valuable knowledge and make better business decisions by offering precise, contextually rich information, by highlighting patterns, and by showing relations between different pieces of information.

Sputniq – an integral part of metaphactory

Through the VISmart acquisition and the transfer of intellectual property of Sputniq and Ontodia, metaphacts is strategically expanding its metaphactory platform with innovative data exploration, data analytics, data authoring and knowledge sharing functionalities. metaphacts and VISmart customers will benefit from an enhanced portfolio for creating and managing knowledge graphs.

"Sputniq delivers ground-breaking innovations in the area of graph data exploration, visualization and authoring. It has been fully integrated into the metaphactory knowledge graph platform as of the 3.0 release. We are excited about the opportunity to shape the Sputniq component to meet our customers’ demands and offer it as an integral part of the platform. We are happy to have the VISmart team join forces with metaphacts and drive our solutions further", commented Dr. Peter Haase, CEO at metaphacts.

Customers interested in learning more about Sputniq can access the demo available on Wikidata or use the metaphactory offering on AWS Marketplace to test Sputniq with their own data. metaphactory on AWS Marketplace is available for a free 14-day trial. AWS Service Credits are available upon request at info@metaphacts.com and will be provided after confirmation of an active trial instance.

VISmart team joins metaphacts

In July 2019, the VISmart team was merged into metaphacts. Yury Emelyanov, CEO of VISmart, and Dmitry Pavlov, CFO of VISmart, have joined the board of directors at metaphacts.

"We have been collaborating successfully with metaphacts over the last few years and we are excited to have become a part of the team. This new setup allows us to better serve our customers worldwide and drive new solutions for knowledge graph management and rapid application development", commented Yury and Dmitry in a joint statement.

Ontodia – going forward

Ontodia as an open-source component enjoys a large community of users and contributors and will be continued under metaphacts as an innovation accelerator. This innovation will have a direct impact on Sputniq and will ultimately benefit metaphactory customers.

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About metaphacts

metaphacts GmbH is a Germany-based company empowering customers to build and manage their own knowledge graphs, and extract the most value out of their data, drive transparency and reach smarter business decisions. metaphacts provides the expertise, products and services to create thematically specialized knowledge graphs in areas such as business, finance, engineering and manufacturing, life sciences, cultural heritage, and more. Built entirely on open standards and technologies, the metaphactory platform supports knowledge graph management, rapid application development and end-user oriented interaction, and covers the entire lifecycle of dealing with knowledge graphs. For more information about metaphacts and its products and solutions please visit www.metaphacts.com

About VISmart

VISmart Ltd. is a team of young professionals in software development with vast experience of product development of various scales and complexity for a number of industries. VISmart developed Ontodia, an open-source platform for exploration and visualization of graph-based data. In collaboration with metaphacts and based on Ontodia, VISmart developed Sputniq, an innovative tool for graph data exploration, analytics, visual graph data authoring, and knowledge sharing. Sputniq is tightly integrated into the metaphactory knowledge graph platform and is delivered to metaphacts customers as part of metaphactory. To learn more about Sputniq please visit www.metaphacts.com/sputniq

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