This document summarizes the slides from a presentation about transforming Forbes into a technology powerhouse using MongoDB. The slides discuss: 1) The challenges facing print media and content management systems, including that print is struggling, commercial CMS are expensive, and focusing on technology is seen as a necessary evil. 2) What keeps executives and leaders awake at night, such as needing to make money, expensive CMS, and constantly hiring more engineers. 3) How MongoDB helped Forbes by being easy to understand, allowing contribution, being flexible to adapt, and making people feel like geniuses through the partnership between MongoDB creators and media companies.

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Transforming Forbes into a Technology
Powerhouse with MongoDB

3. - Introduction
- What keeps you awake at night
- General challenges in Publishing
- A path to Technology Media Company
- Solving Problems together
- Bow
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Agenda

4. I am MongoDB Veteran User - MongoDB stripes earned in 2011 with 10gen
at that time. ( handicap not disclosed)
I still use MongoDB ( open to polygraph test)
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How Are You?

5. ● Print is on life support
● Commercial CMS packages are lagging behind and are often
prohibitively expensive
● All write about disruption, most are afraid of it
● Even Digital Media Business still treat technology as necessary evil
● Tech brightest minds are in high demand and pricey
● Lack of R and D cycles, as everything needs to be done yesterday
● a truck load of third party packages already integrated that nobody knows
of
● running after shiny objects that promise to solve all problems.. but don’t
and could create new ones
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Challenges in Publishing

6. ?
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What Keeps You Awake at night
We need to make money
This CMS costs like a
Ferrari
Hire More Engineers???
Executive Meeting Tomorrow!!!
But we just Bought a CMS, 10 years ago

7. Content Creation
Content Queues
MongoDB
Search Index
Cacheing
Presentation
FeedBack loop
MongoDB
dashboards
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How Can I help You? ( from’11 to ‘14)

8. ● has to be easy to understand on all sides ( business, technology,
consumers)
● has to allow everybody to have a voice and contribute
● has to be flexible and ready to adopt and adapt
● should make everybody feel like a genius
● partnership of leaders like you in the audience and creators of MongoDB
will disrupt the world through innovation and ability to take bold steps
like never before
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Similarities in Open Source World..

9. (bow)
!
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Thanks ( really)