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📢 Introducing the Community Training Program 📢
Education Services and the Quantexa Community are excited to announce the launch of the Community Training Program: Quantexa User Foundations and Quantexa Technical Foundations! Powered by the Quantexa Academy, the Community Training Program provides registered Customer and Partner Community Members an opportunity to…
2024 Year in Review: Quantexa's top 10 achievements
We reached $100M ARR, building sustainable value for our customers Quantexa achieved Centaur status reflecting the confidence that our customers have in us as a strategic partner. We expanded our multi-industry strategy to tailor solutions to every sector Quantexa’s presence in banking, insurance, TMTE, and the public…
Help us improve the Quantexa Documentation site 📢 | User Research Panel 📝
Help us improve Quantexa Documentation 📢 | User Research Panel 📝 We have an exciting opportunity for you to get involved in shaping the future of the Quantexa Documentation site by taking part in user experience testing. What's it all about? This February, we'll be inviting select users to share their ideas and insights on…
Explore the Latest Articles in the Community Library 📚
Our ever-growing Community Library is filled with articles, blogs, and useful resources. Check out the latest articles below, whether you’re just starting out with Quantexa or a seasoned pro, there’s something here to help everyone learn and flourish. Service Operations 📖Quantexa Monitoring Series 📖Quantexa Platform…
New and Improved Search Functionality
We’re excited to announce that our new and improved Search capability has now moved to General Availability as of 2.7.7. (this is referred to as Search 2 within our technical documentation). Let’s face it – the current Search experience came out with the first versions of the Quantexa Platform and needed a facelift.…
Explore the New Search Demo 🔎
Our enhanced Search functionality (aka "Search 2") is here as of version 2.7.7! With a redesigned, entity-focused UI, faster setup, and better performance, it’s built to make using Search better than ever. 💬 We want your feedback! Explore the full release details in the New & Improved Search Functionality release…
QuanCon25 Agenda & Speakers Now Live!
March 6, 2025 | Virtual, across the globe The MainStage agenda and speaker lineup for QuanCon25 are now live! Get ready for an incredible experience with insightful sessions, expert speakers, and real-world case studies. Join us as we explore actionable insights to help you protect, optimize, and grow your business with…
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Explore the new Trade AML demo 🔎
Trade-based money laundering is becoming increasingly complex Criminals hide behind complex patterns of collusion which traditional transactional monitoring (TM) systems are unequipped to identify systematically. To stay one step ahead and effectively fight crime, financial institutions need to upgrade their AML technology…
Project Documentation to support you in upgrading Quantexa
One of Quantexa's priorities is to unlock the potential of your data while enabling customers to form their own self sufficient decision intelligence capability. Our Documentation team has outlined the requirements for upgrades, allowing you to prioritise needs against business benefit. This allows customers to assess…

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FAQ - List of Technical Business Analyst (BA) Academy Frequently Asked Questions
Below is a list of FAQ's for the Quantexa Technical Business Analyst (BA) Academy. Search configuration could not be loaded Setting up the training-tutorial project for the Scenario-based Tasks Not able to access search option on UI application. check-all.sh script showing all started UI Entity search not working BA…
FAQ: Gradle taking too long to index
FAQ relevant for: all Academy versions When opening IntelliJ on the Academy VDIs, dependencies may take too long to load, causing the project to not index properly. This happens because IntelliJ attempts to download dependencies but fails as the VDIs do not have access to the internet. We can stop this happening by putting…
FAQ: Academy Documentation Links
Hey all! Here are some useful links for the Academies: ETL Configuring .qmodel files Configuring .qentity files Entities, Start Paths, and traversals Defining Traversals Defining Compounds Defining Elements Quantexa Core Library Core Traversals Core Elements Core Templates Address Business Individual Core Compounds Address…
FAQ: I'm seeing "cluster health: Not connected" in the Elasticsearch Chrome plugin
FAQ relevant for: all Academy versions Sometimes on the VDIs you will encounter your Elasticsearch being disconnected which will then mean that the data isn't available for easy viewing and it will also lead to errors in your UI. If you try to run e.g. a load Elastic ETL script while Elastic isn't connected then you will…
Setting up the training-tutorial project for Technical BA Academy
FAQ relevant for: Technical BA Academy Hi Guys! Some good news for all of you doing the Technical Business Analyst Academy! We've added a new script to your VDIs to simplify the training-tutorial project setup. This script combines all the necessary setup commands into a single script! If you've already set up the…
FAQ: How can I handle dates when writing a Quantexa Score in Scala?
Handling Temporal Data Temporal data refers to any data that is associated with a specific point or period in time. This includes the use of dates, times, intervals or timestamps. This information is useful for indicating when an event has occurred. LocalDate One common way of handling temporal data such as dates in your…
FAQ: I'm having trouble pasting into my VDI
FAQ relevant for: all Academy versions At various points of the Quantexa Academy it will be useful to be able to paste text into your VDI. This might be to run a script or to use some example code that we provide. If you are having some issues or your paste command isn't working for the VDI, then it could be to do with a…
FAQ - List of Academy Frequently Asked Questions
Below is a list of FAQ's for the Quantexa Academies. Have an idea for an FAQ? Please let us know by emailing training@quantexa.com with the idea! General Quantexa Documentation Links for the Academy Gradle taking too long to index I tried to run a spark shell script and got a "Permission denied" error message My Quantexa…
FAQ: I can't find Addresses or Individuals when I search in my UI!
FAQ relevant for: all Academy versions If you perform a search in your UI and it only returns eg. Business entities but not Individuals or Addresses, then there are a few things you can check to resolve this issue. Firstly, remember that when you perform a general search (red box below), it will search within any field…

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Tips & Tricks for Managing Large and Complex Networks
As an Investigator, you may have found that Entities and Networks are helpful for identifying potential risk in the investigation process, using connections across documents and Entities. However, seeing all the available data connected through transaction flows, trades, direct links, or indirect links can present its own…
6. 🎥Webinar - One System, Many Solutions: Quantexa for Multiple Use Cases
This webinar discusses how organisations can best support multiple use cases within a single Quantexa system. Learn how Quantexa Platform components can be reused and shared to save costs, whilst maintaining the independence and flexibility critical to meeting the requirements of each business application. In this session,…
6. Searching Entities from the Quantexa Entity Store Without Document Ingestion
Designing solutions that leverage the Quantexa Entity Store often requires a flexible approach, particularly when you need to test or retrieve Entities without fully ingesting a Document into the platform. In such scenarios, Quantexa’s Search Related Entities REST API provides an efficient means to query Entity Store,…
5. Maintaining Message Ordering in Kafka for a Quantexa Streaming Solution
Correct message ordering is critical in a Quantexa Kafka streaming solution to ensure functional accuracy and reliable data processing. This article explores how to design and configure Kafka to maintain message ordering across different topics, particularly internal topics used by Quantexa's Streaming tier to trigger…
1. Using Quantexa Kafka Streaming for the First Time
Quantexa integrates Kafka as its primary streaming platform to process, ingest, and generate networks in near real-time, leveraging its powerful Entity Resolution, and Big Data capabilities. Quantexa provides out-of-the-box applications such as Kafka Record-Extraction and Kafka Document-Ingest, designed to streamline data…
How I Became a... Technical Lead (TL)
Meet Kayla… Hi, I’m Kayla and I’ve been a Data Engineer with Quantexa for five and a half years, holding the role of Technical Lead for three of those. At Quantexa, a Technical Lead (TL) is responsible for meeting the deliverables and success criteria that have been set. As a TL, I lead technical teams comprised of…
Decision making beyond local Graph context
Background When investigating an Entity in the Quantexa Graph, it is common for an investigator to start from the Entity in question, and expand through the Graph along related documents and Entities to find relevant linked information. This is standard practice in many contexts, for example in various risk applications,…
How I Became a... Lead Data Engineer
Meet Charlotte… My current job title is Lead Data Engineer, but this captures a variety of activities. The things I’m responsible for range from technical leadership of a project team (coordinating the Development Team and contributing to the technical work needed to deliver the Quantexa), to leading the Data Practice…
Revolutionizing SME Classification: Quantexa's Scalable Solution
This article describes Quantexa's new SME (Small or Medium Sized Enterprise) classifier. Our classifier has been informed by European Commission rules. It has been implemented to be able to scale for large legal hierarchies. Introduction The world we know today is built on the premise of successful organisations and…
What Can Network Structure Tell Us About Risk?
By Matt Jackson and Christina Tkachenko Background Corporate registry Documents provide useful structured information for use in risk modelling. In particular, the information within can be a good indicator of suspicious activity. Yet, sometimes this information is not enough to inform a decision or take an action. By…

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