The goal of most organizations is to improve customer offerings and become more operationally efficient, streamlined and profitable, but relying on legacy systems can hinder innovation. Digital decoupling enables organizations to detach incrementally from these systems while acknowledging their critical role, allowing for a faster, less risky, and more flexible alternative. By maintaining the existing legacy system and building modern microservices around it, organizations can utilize new technologies to reduce disruption and risk while unlocking the ability to innovate new products on a rapid timescale. MongoDB's flexible data schema makes it an excellent implementation technology for digital decoupling, providing a dynamic mechanism that can flex to new data and event types on demand.