Springer, a 160 year-old scientific publisher with turnover in excess of half a billion Euro, decided to adopt an “E-First” strategy, and stop outsourcing its content platform. This meant staffing an internal software development team, building a replacement platform in less than a year, and migrating tens of thousands of institutional customers (and tens of millions of pageviews per month) onto a MarkLogic-powered web application built using the latest technologies.
