The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) required the Emergency Operations Network (EON) to handle multiple document types and feeds, and make sense of the information as quickly as possible. They needed a solution that provided a backend repository and search for unstructured information-tweets, weather reports, news stories, emails, SharePoint documents, geospatial data, and more that get pulled together for decision-making; and integration with in-house custom built as well as commercially available applications to analyze and share the data rapidly. The FAA AEO-400 team tried to implement EON with traditional SQL technologies, but found it impossible due to the complex mix of data and unplanned informational needs that are standard characteristics of this environment.

NEWBOOKS Solutions and MVB wanted to create a new revenue stream and open up a new market by digitizing published new books, previews, and an ordering system with a new service, VLB-TIX. The developers at NEWBOOKS required an infrastructure that could integrate and manage a wide range of data sources and formats, offer the highest levels of customer service, support future growth with enterprise features, and provide agility. They needed to integrate data from its database and the VLB database, which together contained titles from 23,000 publishers and diverse data types such as bibliographic book metadata, and shared buyers' notes. They also had to incorporate a large number of publishing partners into the process with different workflows and various data formats.