Elsevier Migrates to MongoDB to Unlock New Revenue Streams and Gain More Insight into Massive Repository of Scientific Resear...
December 06 2018 - 4:00AM
MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB) announced today that the global information
analytics business Elsevier has transformed its ability to manage
its research assets and build new, intuitive services by switching
to MongoDB, the leading modern, general purpose database platform.
Elsevier publishes 17% of the world’s medical and scientific
research each year, adding thousands of new items every day to its
research platforms including ScienceDirect and Clinical Key as well
as iconic books and journals such as The Lancet, Cell and Gray’s
Anatomy. The company aims to help institutions and professionals
progress science, advance healthcare and improve performance for
the benefit of humanity.
To get more value from that research, Elsevier has moved to
MongoDB Enterprise Advanced running across multiple regions of AWS
cloud to ensure data resilience. Elsevier provides access to a vast
body of content that is represented by more than 200 million
MongoDB documents and 1.2 billion content assets. To ensure user
access is as fast and seamless as possible, MongoDB manages the
richly structured metadata for each asset, including title, author,
date, abstract, version numbers, distribution rights – all
essential attributes needed to power Elsevier’s publishing platform
and associated business model.
Ensuring Elsevier’s publications and customers have consistent
and powerful access to content is a key priority for the company.
With MongoDB at the core of the Elsevier cloud-based platform, the
company is able to apply software and analytics that turn its
content into actionable knowledge.
Kim Baddeley, Application Architect in Business Technology
Solutions at Elsevier, said, “With MongoDB we’ve been able to
introduce far greater capabilities to our platform. We can analyse
the content in new ways, helping us to build new services, and
provide operational insight to the organisation that we were simply
unable to expose before.”
Elsevier’s systems serve an average of 50 million API calls per
day, reaching 100 million calls during peak publishing cycles. The
structure and capabilities of Elsevier’s previous database service
caused unnecessary expense and limited business critical data
analysis. By switching to MongoDB, Elsevier has maintained
performance levels at scale, and has been able to find efficiencies
that deliver a 55% cost reduction. The Elsevier team uses MongoDB
Ops Manager to monitor and scale their database as simply as
possible, while still keeping the data encrypted at rest.
Kim added, “MongoDB seemed an ideal fit as currently our
internal data model is based on native document storage, rich query
language, and distributed, scale-out design. With MongoDB, our
developers can move much faster, creating new services without
first having to pre-define database schema.
“Strategically we are looking to embrace software as a service
across our entire computing estate, rather than operate everything
ourselves. Experience shows us that this helps us move faster and
focus on our apps, rather than backend database operations.”
In the future, MongoDB’s database as a service, MongoDB Atlas,
will assist Elsevier in passing the responsibility for all of the
provisioning, managing, monitoring, and upgrades to MongoDB,
freeing up its development team’s bandwidth to focus on meeting the
needs of both the business and the scientific community it
serves.
Read more about Elsevier’s use of MongoDB in the Leaf in the
Wild series: Elsevier Taps MongoDB to Power its Cloud Platforms,
Publishing 17% of the World’s Medical and Scientific Research
About Elsevier
Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps
institutions and professionals advance healthcare, open science and
improve performance for the benefit of humanity. Elsevier provides
digital solutions and tools in the areas of strategic research
management, R&D performance, clinical decision support and
professional education, including ScienceDirect, Scopus, SciVal,
ClinicalKey and Sherpath. Elsevier publishes over 2,500 digitized
journals, including The Lancet and Cell, more than 38,000 e-book
titles and many iconic reference works, including Gray's Anatomy.
Elsevier is part of RELX Group, a global provider of information
and analytics for professionals and business customers across
industries. www.elsevier.com
About MongoDB
MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose database
platform, designed to unleash the power of software and data for
developers and the applications they build. Headquartered in New
York, MongoDB has more than 8,300 customers in over 100 countries.
The MongoDB database platform has been downloaded over 45 million
times and there have been more than one million MongoDB University
registrations.
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