Search at AstraZeneca

Rob Hernandez

Technology Incubation Lab, CTO Office

An Agile AppStore On A Rich Search Index

AstraZenecaIT Innovation

AstraZeneca is a global biopharmaceutical company with R&D at its core. Our business is providing innovative, effective medicines that make a real difference to patients.

CTO office creates competitive advantage through innovative use of technology, whilst increasing value of existing IT investments. As part of the UK tech incubation lab, we

Access latest technologies to help drive a

disruptive culture across AstraZeneca customers

Nurture ideas that deliver immediate value to the business, leading to step-change adoption

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Create a environment to incubate innovative ideas, safely accelerating closely with the business

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Structured

Unstructured

Information at AstraZenecaGood access is key

Knowledge

Information

Data

Patents

Vision: Make our information accessible and useful by bring it together in 1 system.

Internal Doc. stores

External Information

Cloud based storesFocus on

unstructured &

semi-structured.

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“We already have

enterprise search”

“Just get me Google !”

“What’s the

value?”“You can’t access our

document store”

“I’m not sure about

putting my data on the

cloud?”

“Can I trust it’s secure?”“Yet another Search

engine?”

“Search is solved”

The New SearchThe journey we faced

Search Big Data EngineEnables Scientific Intelligence

In 100 days we implemented Sinequa real-time search engine within R&D

for 10k users. Covering all scientific information and core internal

repositories.

Today, we have over 180 million documents, searchable sub-second

with key scientific vocabularies (SciBite) automatically tagged and findable

Competitive

Intelligence App

Building Business AppsDrives Innovation

R&D Intelligence

R&D News AlertsR&D ChemSearch

Find Scientific Partners Mobile Apps

Find People at AZ

The real revolution is that very complex business

processes can delivered through intuitive search-based

applications.

We built over 10 applications in the first 3 months.

We now support applications across all business

functions.

Building Business AppsDrives Innovation

R&D Intelligence

R&D News AlertsR&D ChemSearch

Find Scientific Partners Mobile Apps

Find People at AZ

The real revolution is that very complex business

processes can delivered through intuitive search-based

applications.

We built over 10 applications in the first 3 months.

We now support applications across all business

functions.

Sentence level connections across all our

documents

From PoC to EnterpriseSocial Collaboration

With 12 months experience of Sinequa, we developed a new global Enterprise Search in 8 weeks

and launched as part of the new portal, Nucleus. Now has 60k users with multi-language support.

Search enables us to socialise key

findings from news & documents,

but also chatter, applications,

people and scientific tags – helping

to connect people together.

Already in pre-production,

indexation of all of our cloud

repositories (Box, Sharepoint,

Veeva etc)

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“Wow , news on my

mobile!”

“Can we use this

info in our app?”

"In all my years, I have never

been able to find the data until

now"

“This is a game changer”

“I see how this can help make

us a $50B company“

“Impressive! An AZ search engine that brings back

documents that are useful.”

“Can we use this

search for our

application”

Our team includes partners from Infosys, PebbleCode & Sinequa.

Thanks to…The Team

And thanks to... Youssef Belghali, Susan Donohoe, Nasko Radev, Mark Durrant, John Mildenhall, Tak Tran, Simon White, Akshay Tankhiwale.

Nick Brown Rob Hernandez

Tim Bell (Sinequa) Christian Sestier(Sinequa)

Steve Woodward Sunny Advani