How does a century old company, who used to consider data integration placing the binder on a book keep up with younger, nimbler companies? You ever-evolve! You must always be adapting and you MUST change your environment before it changes you! This is the success story of Chemical Abstracts Services . A 108 year old company who is the world’s authority for curating and classifying chemical information.

1. From Print to the Cloud and Beyond
The Story of a Century Old Company and its Resiliency to Ever-Evolve

2. Agenda
 CAS Overview
 CAS - In the Beginning… There was Print
 CAS - The Age of Silos
 CAS - IBM Integration. To the Cloud… and Beyond
 Future Considerations
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3. Agenda
 CAS Overview
 CAS - In the Beginning… There was Print
 CAS - The Age of Silos
 CAS - IBM Integration. To the Cloud… and Beyond
 Future Considerations
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4.  CAS helps scientists around the world benefit from the published
work of their colleagues by monitoring, abstracting and indexing the
world's chemistry-related literature
CAS has been supporting scientists for more
than 100 years
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 Since 1907, CAS’s objective
has been to find, collect, and
organize all publicly disclosed
chemistry substance
information

5. CAS helps scientists around the world benefit
from the published work of their colleagues
 CAplusSM
 CAS REGISTRYSM
 CHEMLIST®
 CIN®
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Markush
Indexing
Authority
Processing
Source
Selection
Document
Indexing
Reaction
Indexing
 MARPAT®
 CHEMCATS®
 CAS scientists monitor, abstract and index the world's chemistry-
related literature
 Proprietary, standardized indexing in CAS databases ensures
consistent, comprehensive search results.
 CASREACT®

6. CAS products and services make it faster and
easier for scientist to find the information they
need for their research
 CAS Registry Numbers® uniquely identify each
chemical substance without the ambiguity of multiple
naming conventions
 STN® combines industry-leading search and retrieval
with unique and comprehensive content
 SciFinder® offers a one-stop shop experience with
flexible search and discover options based on user
input and workflow
 Science IP®, the CAS information search service
provides fast, comprehensive and accurate searches
of the world’s scientific and technical literature
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CAS Registry Number 58-08-2
CAFFEINE!

7. Agenda
 CAS Overview
 CAS - In the Beginning… There was Print
 CAS - The Age of Silos
 CAS - IBM Integration. To the Cloud… and Beyond
 Future Considerations
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8. CAS Timeline
108 Years of Progress (and Counting)
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9. CAS End-To-End Architecture
“In the Beginning… There was Print”
Data
Transformation
Data Validation
Data Curation
Data Integration
Data Presentation
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Data Ingestion

10. “CAS Knows Jack”
Jack and Friends Beside Printed Chemical Abstracts
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11. Agenda
 CAS Overview
 CAS - In the Beginning… There was Print
 CAS - The Age of Silos
 CAS - IBM Integration. To the Cloud… and Beyond
 Future Considerations
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12.  Data Ingestion
 Data Transformation
 Data Validation
 Data Normalization
 Data Persistence
CAS End-To-End Architecture
“The Age of Silos”
 Data Ingestion
 Data Transformation
 Data Validation
 Data Curation
 Data Integration
 Data Persistence
 Data Transformation
 Data Validation
 Data Integration
 Data Presentation
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13. Silo Challenges
 Multiple Data Ingestion Points
– In some cases, the same data is being ingested twice
 Multiple Views of the Data
– Each silo must perform complex transformations to its specific view
– Editorial manufactures normalized data based on a print model
– Product Development wants de-normalized, complete data
– Content Delivery has a mixed view of the data
 Multiple Vocabulary Conventions
– Differing data definitions causes confusion across silos
 No Unified, Authority Data Store
– Each silo has their own copy of the data in its own specific vocabulary
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14. Editorial Legacy Systems
 Many disparate databases used to store relational data
– Becomes difficult to maintain and support
 Multiple database technologies used
– No unified platform
 Challenges to support legacy systems
– Some legacy technologies are no longer supported
– Succession planning difficult to support legacy systems
– Special IT used so that legacy code would not need to be touched
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15. Content Delivery Systems
 Data was transformed into one common data model to bridge
gap between Editorial and Product View
– One common schema model was complex and unwieldy
– Common model contained “unnecessary” complexities
– Common model did not align with Product Development’s specifications
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16. Product Development Systems
 Product Development must code for “unnecessary” complexities
 Data not completely de-normalized
– Additional development necessary to compile data
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17. Silo Challenges
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18. By the Numbers
 Thousands of journals ingested per day
– Approximately 1 TB of data per week
 Over 100 other data feeds ingested per day
 Over 1.2 million messages processed per day
– Synced up with product data daily in less than 10 minutes
 Over 6 TB of compiled data created per day
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19. What is an Architect to Do?
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20. Unify…Integrate…Simplify
 Unify Data; Processes; Transformations; Data Ingestion
 Integrate Disparate Systems; Services; Applications; and
Data Consumers
 Simplify the Architecture!!!
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21. • Run proof-of-concept and/or proof-of-technology and/or pilot project as needed
• Negotiate contract
• Adjust as needed
• Selection team members score vendor solutions
• Aggregate scores
• Select vendor with best aggregate score (judgement required)
• Bake-off if winner is too close to call
• Send RFP document to prospective vendors
• Hold clarification meetings with vendor teams
• Vendors send RFP response documents
• Vendors present their solutions and answer questions
• Create technology selection team
• Identify key requirements (based on architecture and tech stack governance)
• Assign weights
• Create RFP document and scorecard spreadsheet
Request For Proposal
Create RFP
Engage vendors
Score-driven selection
Validate selection
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22. Requirements
 Data Integration
 Durable Message Bus with Guaranteed Delivery
 Any-to-Any Connectivity
 Architectural Flexibility
 Excellent Support
 A Proven Solution
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23. Agenda
 CAS Overview
 CAS - In the Beginning… There was Print
 CAS - The Age of Silos
 CAS - IBM Integration. To the Cloud… and Beyond
 Future Considerations
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24. Unify…Integrate…Simplify
 Data Curation
 Data Ingestion
 Data Transformation
 Data Validation
 Data Normalization
 Data Integration
 Data Transformation
 Data Validation
 Data Integration
 Data Presentation
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 Data Persistence
 Data Flow Orchestration

25. Agenda
 Overview
 CAS - In the Beginning… There was Print
 CAS - The Age of Silos
 CAS - IBM Integration. To the Cloud… and Beyond
 Future Considerations
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26. To the Cloud… and Beyond!
Off-Prem Processing
 Bursting Capabilities
 Data Center Relief
 Co-Location Capabilities
New Mobile Applications
Service Unification
 Service Management
 Service Integration
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28. Questions
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29. Connect with CAS:
Joseph Sapp
Lead Enterprise Application Architect
jsapp@cas.org
www.linkedin.com/in/joesapp