MarkLogic Significantly Reduces Thieme Application Development Time
Customer Company Size
Mid-size Company
Region
- Europe
Country
- Germany
Product
- MarkLogic Enterprise NoSQL database platform
Tech Stack
- NoSQL
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Cost Savings
- Revenue Growth
Technology Category
- Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage
Applicable Functions
- Product Research & Development
Services
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
Thieme is an award-winning international medical and science publisher serving health professionals, students, and scientists for more than 125 years. Thieme promotes the most recent advancements in clinical practice, publishes the latest scientific research findings, and advocates medical education. Thieme is well known for the high quality and didactic nature of its books, journals, and electronic products. In addition to publishing 450 new book titles every year, Thieme publishes more than 15 medical and scientific journals both in print and electronic form as well as dozens of online products.
The Challenge
Thieme Publishing Group, a medium-sized company in a competitive landscape, needed a database solution that allows for agile data management, storage, enrichment, and delivery. They had millions of medical and scientific documents, images, and graphics, all of which were available in different formats that existed in many data silos. This situation made product development and deployment labor-intensive. In order to be successful against international competition as well as free search services like Google or Yahoo, Thieme needed to quickly deliver a platform that was capable of making highly annotated, enriched content easily searchable and accessible to a wide range of users. Because there was no standard platform or language to develop on, the heavily siloed nature of Thieme's data and products made scaling a very cumbersome and elaborate process. IT had to start from scratch to create each new product.
The Solution
Thieme selected the MarkLogic® Enterprise NoSQL database platform to serve as the basis for all of its data management, including configuration, integration, storage, and delivery. To allow users to efficiently mine this wealth of content, Thieme leveraged the MarkLogic Semantics feature to implement enriched text and highly configurable search functionalities, allowing users to perform relevant real-time text searches. MarkLogic powers over 20 Thieme products including: eRef, Science of Synthesis, and eNeurosurgery. Using MarkLogic Enterprise NoSQL as the database platform for all of its data management and integration has allowed Thieme to configure, structure, and integrate millions of documents and images from thousands of different sources into a suite of comprehensive electronic reference products, making it easy to pull and deliver relevant data to targeted audiences.
Operational Impact
Quantitative Benefit
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