CAS: A Data-Centric Approach to Content Management
summary
CAS modernizes century‑old content by replacing 86 legacy systems with a single MarkLogic repository that handles ingestion, curation, search, knowledge‑graphing (TDE, Optic) and delivery. The team pairs domain, content and tech experts, adopts fail‑fast cycles and lowers time‑to‑market from 18 months to 90 days, replatforms Bioinder in ~120 days, ships sequence search and pathway visualization, and exposes 8.3 million primary references for biomarker research. Infrastructure choices remove heavy ETL and enable multiple views without copying data via MarkLogic.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and CAS overview
- 5:12AI and data-centric approach
- 7:01Transformational journey at CAS
- 13:55Agile process pitfalls and fixes
- 19:17People, process, and technology shift
- 22:47MarkLogic and semi-structured data
- 27:22Legacy system consolidation
- 31:57BioInder platform re-platforming
- 34:48BioInder demo walkthrough
- 40:15Post-release enhancements and outcomes
- 41:40Mindset transformation and success
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