Case Study: Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. achieves rapid discovery of hidden relationships and misconfiguration detection with Neo4j

Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. - Customer Case Study

Jacobs Engineering’s CyForce team, led by Deputy Director Dee Pandian, faced the challenge of analyzing complex, interconnected infrastructure data that stretched the limits of traditional SQL Server approaches. After importing a roughly 2 GB dataset and modeling the same relationships in both SQL Server and a graph database, the team needed a more intuitive, performant way to discover hidden links and validate system configurations.

They adopted Neo4j to model relationships as nodes and edges rather than relational rows and indexes, and built a small ETL pipeline to feed the graph. The switch delivered dramatic speed and visibility gains — revealing unexpected system linkages that exposed misconfigurations, simplifying relationship queries, and prompting the team to embrace graph technology and Neo4j’s emerging ETL tooling.

Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc.

Dee Pandian

Deputy Director