March 2023 Summaries

恭喜 2023 年 MongoDB 亞太地區創新獎得主，包括 Open Government Products、Bendigo and Adelaide Bank、Redcliffe Lifetech Private Limited、國泰航空 (Cathay Pacific) 和阿達尼數位實驗室 (Adani Digital Labs)、東華 (Dongwha) 和 myBillBook 等九組優勝團隊。 這些團隊透過 MongoDB 的開發者資料平台和雲端服務，創建了多個實用且高效的應用程式和系統，改善了工作效率、提供更好的使用體驗、提高了產業轉型和醫療領域的成果。

The APAC Innovation Awards recognize companies that use MongoDB to develop innovative applications, improve efficiency, and drive growth. The award categories include Positive Impact Award for Open Government Products, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank's Organizational Transformation, Redcliffe Labs' Heroes in Health, Cathay Pacific's Industry Disruptor, Adani Digital Labs' From Batch to Real-Time, Dongwha's Industry 4.0, myBillBook's Digital Native, KASIKORN Business-Technology Group's Customer Focused, and China Mobile's Massive Scale. The winners use MongoDB to solve real-world problems such as data management, scalability, and user experience, resulting in improved efficiency, increased customer satisfaction, and significant business growth.

The MongoDB APAC Innovation Awards recognize projects and individuals that leverage data to build compelling applications, celebrating innovation and creativity in technology. Winners include organizations such as Open Government Products from Singapore, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank from Australia, Redcliffe Lifetech Private Limited from India, Cathay Pacific from Hong Kong, Adani Digital Labs from India, Dongwha from South Korea, myBillBook from India, KASIKORN Business-Technology Group from Thailand, and China Mobile from China. These winners have successfully implemented MongoDB's developer data platform to improve efficiency, deliver better customer experiences, and drive organizational transformation in various industries such as healthcare, finance, and telecommunications. By harnessing the power of data, these organizations have achieved significant results, including reduced costs, increased productivity, and improved customer satisfaction.

This award recognizes the use of MongoDB in innovative applications across various industries, including finance, healthcare, and telecommunications. The winners include organizations such as Open Government Products, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, Redcliffe Lifetech Private Limited, Cathay Pacific, Adani Digital Labs, Dongwha, myBillBook, KASIKORN Business-Technology Group, and China Mobile. These companies have leveraged MongoDB's features to improve operational efficiency, enhance customer experiences, and drive business growth through data-driven insights. The award highlights the impact of using MongoDB in driving innovation and transformation across different sectors.

The 2023 MongoDB APAC Innovation Awards celebrated innovative uses of MongoDB across various sectors, highlighting impactful projects that leverage MongoDB's capabilities to drive efficiency and innovation. Winners included Open Government Products in Singapore, which utilized MongoDB Atlas to build FormSG, a digital form builder aiding in the collection of data during the pandemic. Bendigo and Adelaide Bank in Australia implemented MongoDB to enhance customer experiences and operational efficiency through their Ready-Set-MongoDB framework. Redcliffe Lifetech in India used MongoDB for its Smart Health Report, a diagnostics service aimed at improving patient care. Cathay Pacific achieved a paperless flight deck with its Flight Folder app, reducing carbon emissions and improving efficiency. Adani Digital Labs in India developed an event-based architecture using MongoDB for real-time data analysis. Dongwha Group in South Korea optimized its Smart Factory Software with MongoDB Atlas, enhancing production management. FloBiz's myBillBook powered by MongoDB Atlas helped Indian SMBs with billing and inventory management, even offline. KASIKORN Business-Technology Group in Thailand leveraged MongoDB for its MAKE mobile banking app, innovating customer financial management tools. Finally, China Mobile upgraded its billing system with MongoDB, significantly improving performance and scalability.

Retailers are using search indexes beyond their ecommerce stores to improve customer experience and workforce efficiency. They can optimize application performance, usability, and internal use cases such as inventory management, stock management, customer care, purchasing, supplier and vendor management, marketing, and more. Search indexing can speed up queries with user-defined or unpredictable workloads, and is especially important for in-store workforce applications, back-office inventory and assortment, and customer servicing. Retailers like MongoDB are providing quick and cost-effective solutions to add search capabilities without creating operational complexity, allowing them to drive fast application experiences and improve overall business operations.

The US government is pushing its agencies to modernize their solutions and improve their security posture, with a focus on secure by default configurations, zero trust environments, and cloud-based solutions. Secure by default means that any piece of software uses default security settings that are configured for the highest possible security out of the box, while zero trust environments assume the perimeter is breached and continually verify and audit users, devices, and connections. Cloud providers are stepping up to meet the security needs of government agencies, offering purpose-built options such as AWS GovCloud. Government agencies require built-in security measures, including network isolation and access, encryption in flight, at rest, and in use, granular database auditing, and multi-factor authentication. The right data platform with built-in security features is crucial for public sector organizations to keep sensitive data protected while still allowing progress.

March is Women’s History Month, and MongoDB highlights its women leaders, such as Lena Smart, the Chief Information Security Officer, who discusses the importance of clear communication, leadership qualities, and the company's initiatives like the "MentorHER" program that supports female leadership. Smart, reflecting on her career journey, emphasizes the significance of words and clarity in leadership, as well as the challenges faced in male-dominated industries. She advocates for a supportive team culture, continuous learning, and the empowerment of team members to take ownership of their roles. Smart shares her positive transition to MongoDB, where women are actively encouraged to lead, and speaks about her experiences with mentorship, underscoring the impact of programs that foster diversity and female leadership growth. Her advice to aspiring women leaders includes maintaining clarity and honesty in leadership aspirations and setting clear goals to help teams and businesses thrive.

Modernizing a bank's mainframe is crucial for creating modern customer experiences, as it allows developers to focus on building high-quality applications tailored to the client, rather than managing outdated systems. A five-stage approach using an Operational Data Layer (ODL) enables banks to modernize their mainframes iteratively, while maintaining performance and risk control. An ODL acts as a bridge between existing and new systems, allowing for faster improvements and minimizing disruption to critical business operations. By leveraging MongoDB's capabilities, banks can efficiently connect mainframes and traditional databases to modern architectures, such as data mesh, and unlock the full potential of their data. The benefits of an ODL include improved data processing, enhanced security, and reduced costs, making it an ideal solution for banks looking to transform their digital experience.

Tendencias en el sector financiero en 2023, incluyen la necesidad de reducir costos y modernizar sistemas heredados para romper silos de datos y crear experiencias personalizadas para los clientes. Los bancos están buscando diseñar un futuro bancario mejor mediante diseños flexibles que permitan innovar y remodelar modelos de negocio. La automatización inteligente es clave para mejorar la eficiencia operativa y controlar costes, y las entidades financieras deben considerar diferentes normas con diferentes requisitos de datos en la elaboración de informes ESG. El mercado de los pagos digitales está en crecimiento impulsado por nuevas tecnologías y tendencias mundiales, y las instituciones financieras están modernizando su infraestructura de datos para crear experiencias de pago personalizadas, seguras y en tiempo real. La seguridad y la gestión de riesgos son prioridades importantes para cualquier nueva plataforma de datos, y la adopción de plataformas de datos de nueva generación seguirá creciendo a medida que las instituciones financieras se den cuenta de todo su potencial para gestionar costes, maximizar la seguridad y fomentar la innovación.

Kanika Khurana, Technical Services Manager at MongoDB, leads with transparency, valuing her team's unique skills and abilities to capitalize on their strengths and achieve larger goals. She believes that a good leader is transparent, admitting mistakes, asking for forgiveness, and making amends, which builds stronger relationships and a culture of doing the right thing. Kanika advises other women leaders to be brave, take calculated risks, and give it a try, as these qualities are essential for growth and innovation in their careers.

MongoDB has released "Focus Mode" in its Compass GUI, which provides a distraction-free environment for working with stages of aggregation pipelines. This improvement allows developers to efficiently analyze and troubleshoot their pipelines by focusing on specific stages, viewing sample input and output documents, and switching between stages easily. The addition of Focus Mode is part of MongoDB's continued refresh of the query and aggregation experience in Compass, made possible by feedback from its developer community.

Submit Your Nominations for the 2023 MongoDB Innovation Awards | MongoDB Blog` The MongoDB Innovation Awards are now open for nominations, recognizing organizations that use data to dream big and pioneer new technologies. Past winners include notable companies like 7-Eleven, American Airlines, and LinkedIn. This year's award categories focus on impact, industry transformation, inspiring innovation, and building the next big thing with small- or medium-sized businesses. Nominations are accepted through April 21, 2023, with winners notified by May 2023. The prize package includes a trophy, event passes, digital badges, customer feature stories, MongoDB Atlas credits, and tailored MongoDB Days to support technical teams.

MongoDB has announced the opening of nominations for the 2023 MongoDB Innovation Awards, which honor organizations utilizing MongoDB in pioneering ways to enhance their operations. Past recipients include notable companies like 7-Eleven and American Airlines. Winners will receive various prizes, including an Innovation Award trophy, access to MongoDB events, and a feature story on MongoDB.com. The awards feature categories such as Optimizing for Impact, Industry Transformation, Inspiring Innovation, and Building the Next Big Thing. Submissions are accepted until April 21, 2023, with winners announced by the end of May. Additionally, MongoDB Atlas' data visualization tool, Atlas Charts, is highlighted as a user-friendly solution for visualizing data without complex processes, offering free usage up to 1GB per project monthly. In a separate announcement, Dev Ittycheria, MongoDB's President and CEO, conveyed his decision to retire, effective November 10, 2025, with Chirantan "CJ" Desai set to succeed him. Dev emphasized the importance of this leadership transition as a strategic move for MongoDB's future growth, highlighting CJ's extensive experience in scaling companies and his alignment with MongoDB's vision. Dev expressed his commitment to a smooth transition and his ongoing support for the company as a board member, looking forward to spending more time with family while maintaining confidence in MongoDB's continued success.

MongoDB Atlas is a multi-cloud developer data platform used by large companies in various industries. To gain insights into business operations, data visualization is crucial, and MongoDB Atlas's first-class data visualization tool, Atlas Charts, enables this. Charts is natively built for the document model, supports all cluster configurations, and offers robust data visualization with customization options and interactivity. It also provides sharing and embedding capabilities, making it a low-cost solution for teams. Users can easily create dashboards and charts using Charts' drag-and-drop interface and learn how to use it in a few hours. With Atlas Charts, users can gain real-time business visibility and make better decisions on their data.

The payments digital market is growing rapidly worldwide, driven by new technologies and global trends. The emerging markets in Latin America are leading the way in terms of expansion relative to the established players. The pandemic has been a catalyst for the adoption of cashless payments, e-commerce, government incentives for digital payments, fintechs, and other factors. The growth of e-commerce is stellar, with an expected penetration rate of over 70% of the population by 2022. Central banks are promoting new payment infrastructure to provide faster and cheaper transfer technology for citizens and businesses. The PIX platform in Brazil has seen significant adoption, processing around $250 million annually. Fintechs are challenging the traditional banking sector's dominance, using their agility to innovate and offer more user-friendly services. The ISO 20022 standard is being adopted by most financial institutions to standardize data exchange, improving interoperability and potentially reducing costs for users. The 3DS2 solution is also gaining traction, providing a secure authentication process for online transactions without redirecting users to their banking apps. Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are becoming increasingly popular in Latin America, offering low fees, fast processing times, and global reach. To succeed in this rapidly evolving landscape, businesses need to invest in innovation and create new business models that leverage data and technology to provide personalized experiences in real-time.

The MongoDB Partner Team is a key differentiator for the company, focusing on building lasting relationships with developers and other companies in its ecosystem. The team prioritizes hiring sales-first individuals who can generate pipeline and position the value of MongoDB, and measures success by deeply investing resources in a handful of alliances rather than just the number of partners. The organization has created specialist teams for various types of partners, including cloud providers, system integrators, and ISVs, to provide more intimate relationships with customers and drive growth. With a focus on specialization, diversity, and promoting individuals into leadership positions, the Partner Team is known for its winning culture and opportunities for growth, making it an attractive place to work.

Economic uncertainty is forcing organizations to optimize their resources, including IT spend, as they seek to wring every ounce of productivity out of existing budgets. One area that often gets overlooked is how the data is modeled in the database, which can significantly impact costs and infrastructure requirements. Data modeling can be optimized using NoSQL databases like MongoDB, which are designed to eliminate expensive joins, reduce CPU utilization, and save on compute costs. By characterizing the workload, identifying entities and relationships, and using indexing techniques, organizations can build efficient data models that minimize costs and maximize productivity. Additionally, NoSQL databases offer benefits such as reduced maintenance overhead, increased developer productivity, and lower license fees, making them an attractive alternative to traditional relational databases.

The digital payments market is experiencing rapid growth in Latin America, driven by factors such as pandemic-induced cashless payments adoption, e-commerce, government push for digital payments, and fintechs. Emerging markets are leading the way in terms of relative expansion, with a valuation over USD 68 billion in 2021. The landscape is being reshaped by changes coming from within the industry, including the adoption of standards such as ISO20022 and 3DS2, which enable smoother interoperability and payment authentication. Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are also playing a significant role, particularly in remittance services and stablecoin payments. To navigate this complex environment, companies need to harness the power of data and technology to provide personalized and real-time experiences for their customers.

May Petry, Vice President of Digital and Growth Marketing at MongoDB, emphasizes the importance of defining personal values, being authentic, and "getting comfortable with being uncomfortable" as a leader. She shares her experiences growing her career in leadership, including overcoming intimidation and loneliness as a woman in a male-dominated field, and learning to use imposter syndrome to fuel growth and collaboration. Petry advises building a team by being a role model, providing individual growth plans, and taking charge of one's own development, while also encouraging women to find supportive networks and be kind to themselves as they pursue leadership roles.

MongoDB is expanding its event series to over 30 cities across 19 countries globally, adopting a "local-first" strategy to bring the community together and provide in-person learning conferences focused on technical content. The events will feature keynote speakers, customer successes, schema design deep dives, data modeling best practices, and networking opportunities with other MongoDB users. By bringing these events to more locations, MongoDB aims to reduce travel time and costs while minimizing its environmental impact, making it easier for community members to attend and engage with each other. Registration for each event will be announced on the MongoDB.local hub and tickets will be released on a rolling basis.

The insurance industry is shifting from traditional to near-real-time data-driven models, driven by consumer demand and the need for efficient data processing. To achieve this, software delivery teams must build and maintain data processing pipelines. A usage-based insurance model using MongoDB and Databricks can revolutionize underwriting, enabling personalized and real-time products. The model involves gathering data from connected vehicles, analyzing it with Machine Learning, and creating a personalized premium for customers. A basic data model includes customers, trips, policies, and insured vehicles, which are stored in three MongoDB collections and two Materialized Views. The data pipeline consists of sample data, daily and monthly materialized views, and a scheduled trigger that executes an Aggregation Pipeline to summarize the raw IoT data. Automated decisions with Databricks involve collecting data, posting it to the ML Flow API endpoint, waiting for the model's response, and updating the 'customerPolicy' collection with the calculated premium.

Clear: Enabling Seamless Tax Management for Millions of People with MongoDB Atlas` The Indian tax and financial services software platform Clear has successfully implemented a scalable solution to manage tax returns using MongoDB Atlas, a fully-managed developer data platform. With over six million registered users, the platform was experiencing performance issues due to its MySQL-based system, which could not handle peak demand. A proof of concept study comparing MySQL's performance with MongoDB revealed that MongoDB was considerably faster and more cost-effective. After replatforming from MySQL to MongoDB Atlas on AWS, Clear achieved a 2900% jump in processing speed and significant cost savings. The new platform has also enabled the team to easily scale up and down their clusters, automate right-sizing, and manage large amounts of data with ease.

MongoDB has welcomed a new cohort of community champions and enthusiasts to its Community Advocacy Program. These individuals are passionate advocates for MongoDB technologies and users, sharing their knowledge and experiences with others through various media and events. They also gain valuable skills in advocacy and community engagement by working closely with MongoDB staff and forming meaningful bonds with community leaders. The program aims to foster a global community of dedicated MongoDB advocates who can grow their knowledge and leadership by engaging with the larger community.