Achieving Faster App Development and Increased Governance · Near—real time processing. Batch processing. 80%. Real-time updates. 20%. Batch updates. Business Need • Consistent

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Achieving Faster App Development

and Increased Governance


MarkLogicWorld

presentation

CoE framework

Governance®

Aetna use cases

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Framework Components

Framework features

Framework GUI/tools

• MLCP• CoRB• Roxy

Open/existing source

• Bulk ingest• Bulk

extract• Log

exporting

• Configuration editor

• Framework dashboards


Example of Faster App Development

Application logic

Service metrics

Ingest & validation

Bulk processing

App logging. . .

Error trapping &

logging

Request routing

Built-in framework

support

Re-usable, configurable framework

components


Data Integration

Envelope patternProvenanceTransformation VersioningReal time vs batchValidationConfigurability

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Governance

Goals

Easier to troubleshoot

and recognize trends

Consistent error

handling, logging,

ingest, egress

Consistency

Ensuring apps are

doing what they should

- and -

Not doing what they shouldn’t

Across apps and data

types

Shared resources,

reduce waste

Compliance Visibility

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Why MarkLogic®

Business/Architecture goals

Other considerations• Scarce

availability of skilled resources

MarkLogic 9 to the rescue• JSON

JavaScript support

• More skilled resources

Changing Data Models / Semi-structured Data

ACID Compliant

Government-grade Security

Highly Scalable

Fast Random Access

Low Total Cost of Ownership


How MarkLogic is Used at Aetna

Enterprise Data Hub


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Data hub NOT data lake

80%Cache

20%BOR

Most common usage pattern

Multiple domain data

sets

Single point of integration

Persistent cache

Book of record (BOR)

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MESSAGEBUS

RDBMS

CONTENTFEED

ING

EST

ANALYTICALAPPS

OPERATIONAL APPS

DOWNSTREAMSYSTEMS

SERV

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STAGING(RAW DATA AS IS)

FINAL(HARMONIZED, INDEXED DATA)

SOURCE 1 DOCUMENTS

SOURCE 2 DOCUMENTS

SOURCE NDOCUMENTS

HAR

MO

NIZ

E

INDEX, SEARCH, DISCOVERY, &

HARMONIZATION

INDEX, SEARCH,& SERVICES

f(x)

ENVELOPED DOCS (ENTITY 1)

ENVELOPED DOCS (ENTITY 2)

ENVELOPED DOCS (ENTITY N)

The MarkLogic Data Hub Framework


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Data versioning

Data archiving and purging

80%VersionedArchivedPurged

20%No versioningNo archivalNo purging

Archival• Built-in• Data lake• Batch use

cases

Purging• Built-in• Obsolete

versions

Governance• Handled by

framework• Config-driven

Updates

• Creates new document version

• Not internal ML updates

Searches

• Use recent version

Use Cases

• Historical searching

• Auditing

Bi-temporal

• Not currently built-in

• But portable

RP


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Near—real time processing

Batch processing

80%Real-time updates

20%Batch updates

Business Need

• Consistent views

Implementation

• Events based• CORB2

Advantages

• Asynchronous processing

• Decoupled

Business Need

• Daily updates• Legacy

migration

Implementation

• MLCP• CORB2

Advantages

• Faster• Driven by

configurations• Decoupled

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How MarkLogic is Used at Aetna Bulk upgrade

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Development and Deployment

How we develop and deploy at Aetna 100%Framework components

are generic and re-usable

Tools Utilized

RoxyMLCP

CORB2

Frameworks

Roxy based

Deployed using Roxy commands

Backward compatible

Application Code

Utilizes framework components &

MarkLogic libraries

Deployed using framework based REST endpoint

Benefits

• Faster delivery• Parallel development


Closing

Overall visibility

Traceability

Faster delivery

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