Embracing Cloud Deployment for Big Data and DevOps

Steven WoodwardTechnology Incubation Lab, CTO, AstraZeneca 22nd June 2016

CTO Office

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Our team was established to create new value by catalyzing innovative, emerging technologies across AstraZeneca

Technology Incubation Labs

Competency Centers

Enterprise Architecture

Multi-disciplinary teams that test new technologies and accelerate platforms to build internal expertise and hands-on experience of potential game-changing technologies whilst focusing on immediate business problems

Established User Experience and Mobility competency centers as key strategic areas for future success. They will develop and be embedded into enterprise capabilities with world-class technology leadership

Providing enterprise leadership to understand the pain points of the business and ensure that proposed technology changes are unified and governed to maximise business value as AZIT develop corporate platforms, workflows and choices

Global ReachToday we have 3 tech labs. Presence in these key technology clusters gives an early view of emerging technologies, companies and start-ups.

San Francisco is today’s Innovation Capital of the World and our tech lab will facilitate links with innovative research start-ups, venture capitalists and global technology leaders. This office provides new opportunities at the forefront of healthcare digital innovation and major breakthroughs in enterprise technology.

Cambridge is the most dynamic scientific business cluster in the world. We are surrounded by 19 science parks with over 1,500 high-tech companies, world class academic institutions at the bleeding edge of scientific research and key research hospitals like Addenbrookes.

Shanghai is emerging as the top city for tech innovation internationally and is predicted to become the global technology centre within 4 years. Our tech lab is able to tap into novel scientific research & development, advanced engineering, health nanotechnology and robotics.

Scaling for Big Data

200m+ Unstructured Documents

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We have silos of unstructured content, both inside the company and in the cloud.

We initially focused on developing a big-data engine for unstructured R&D content for scientists.

Admin AccessData Sources Data

MappingsConfigure

PermissionsTag

ContentSinequa

IndexApplications Web Service

Big Data Engine

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We had developed a big data engine that powers multiple business applications, not just enterprise search. This Swiss-army knife for search let’s us tackle many problems

R&D News AlertsR&D ChemSearch

Find Partners

Mobile Apps Competitive Intel

Medical Affairs

Containers for Rapid Deployment

Elastic Cloud Performance

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Sinequa now handles ~2500 queries per min. Designed from the start to leverage cloud elastic scaling capabilities for responsive performance for 10 users or 70,000 users.

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Happy UsersDockerElastic Container Services

By leveraging container technology, we can spin up new services quickly. It’s very cost-effective and enables new approaches to be easily included in your workflows

Automated video transcription High precision text analytics

In-Video Search!

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The Azure Media Services cloud platform is able to ingest audio and video files and automatically generates a >90% accurate transcription (English only)

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By combining Amazon, Docker and Microsoft Azure, we were able to go from first prototype to global implementation in 7 weeks in our Enterprise search platform.

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From Code to Container

We can write code in an IDE, commit to Git Repo, Build a Docker Container, test and deploy to AWS in about 3 minutes!

Exponential Data Growth

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Wearables, Sensors and Beacons

• Disparate sensors form cohesive systems

Artificial Intelligence

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Skills and Expertise Lookup:

Department Information Delivery:

Information Lookup:

• Uses machine learning and neural networks to help bring context to user input

• Users a series of natural language processing algorithms to help validate and clean the input data

• Connects to AstraZeneca API’s to gather individuals skillsets• Built as a service, allowing multiple input channels

• Slack• Chatter• Skype

Predictive Modelling

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With larger, complex datasets, machine-learning techniques can accelerate and increase accuracy of decision making, improving our productivity

Optimised models created using cloud elastic approaches offer another big data engine opportunity across the enterprise:- salesforce optimisation, employee retention, resource allocation, patient responder prediction, manufacturing/supply chain improvements.

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We are currently scouting Federated Analytics, Mobile Security, Video Compression & Optimization, Pre-emptive event driven actions….Please get in touch if you can help

Thank You & Questions!Steve Woodwardsteven.woodward@astrazeneca.comNick Brownnick.brown@astrazeneca.com