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Zentity v2.0

Ahhhh! One of my “children” is growing up and maturing!

I am so proud of the team over at Microsoft’s External Research. They have done an amazing job with Zentity. The new version packs a great set of cool new features, building on the extensible nature of the graph store which is at its heart. I know that they put a lot of emphasis on making the tasks of navigating and visualizing through the information in the graph store very easy by incorporating other Microsoft technologies.

Well done to the team and special congratulations to Oscar Naim who lead the v2.0 effort. The other usual suspects are Lee Dirks, Alex Wade, and Derick Campbell of course.

Check out the new set of features:

New services (i.e. Pivot Collection Service and Zentity Data Service)
New client applications:
- Pivot Viewer and ODATA Viewer, in collaboration with Microsoft Live Labs
- Visual Explorer, in collaboration with MSR Asia
- PowerShell admin console
.NET 4.0 support
ODATA support
Data model agnostic
Multi-tier application support
Zentity SDK
Improved deployment experience

There is also an introductory video featuring Oscar 🙂 And the code project site is coming soon! I know we promised to open source Zentity long time ago but but despite Alex’s great efforts, we’ve been hitting one obstacle after the other. The source code is definitely coming though.

Zentity v2.0 download

Savas Parastatidis

Savas Parastatidis works at Amazon as a Sr. Principal Engineer in Alexa AI'. Previously, he worked at Microsoft where he co-founded Cortana and led the effort as the team's architect. While at Microsoft, Savas also worked on distributed data storage and high-performance data processing technologies. He was involved in various e-Science projects while at Microsoft Research where he also investigated technologies related to knowledge representation & reasoning. Savas also worked on language understanding technologies at Facebook. Prior to joining Microsoft, Savas was a Principal Research Associate at Newcastle University where he undertook research in the areas of distributed, service-oriented computing and e-Science. He was also the Chief Software Architect at the North-East Regional e-Science Centre where he oversaw the architecture and the application of Web Services technologies for a number of large research projects. Savas worked as a Senior Software Engineer for Hewlett Packard where he co-lead the R&D effort for the industry's Web Service transactions service and protocol. You can find out more about Savas at https://savas.me/about