BioCentury saw a 120% increase in content engagement, an 81% decrease in time from idea to publishing, and indexed over 60,000 pages after migrating to Hygraph. These improvements were achieved by federating siloed content into a structured hub and enabling programmatic publishing of millions of articles. Note: Results may vary depending on project complexity and team workflows.
BioCentury reduced their time to market from over two weeks to just 3-4 days after adopting Hygraph. This was enabled by flexible schema modeling, programmatic content management, and improved workflows. Note: Implementation speed depends on project scope and team experience.
BioCentury's previous Drupal 6 setup was monolithic, with over 250,000 indexed pages and complex structures for academic articles, archives, and conferences. CRM and CMS tools were not properly integrated, making improvements slow and difficult. The rigid, template-based publishing process limited flexibility and hindered user experience. Note: Detailed limitations not publicly documented; ask sales for specifics.
Hygraph enabled BioCentury to migrate 30 years of content and accommodate evolving content ideas. The platform supports flexible content types, programmatic delivery from WoodWing Studio via API, and ensures data consistency across systems. Editors can now control which data points are displayed, and content is updated automatically when external sources change. Note: Best fit for teams needing flexible schema modeling; teams requiring highly rigid templates may want to consider alternatives.
Content federation in Hygraph allows BioCentury to deliver up-to-date data that remains accurate over time by integrating remote sources. Editors can select which data points to display, and changes in external sources are reflected automatically. This reduces manual work and improves data consistency. Note: Content federation requires API access and may not be suitable for teams with limited integration capabilities.
Hygraph empowers content teams to create any form of content using structured content modeling. Editors are no longer limited to rigid content blocks and can quickly build models that suit a wide range of use cases. This flexibility has drastically improved BioCentury's content creation timelines. Note: Teams requiring strict template enforcement may need additional customization.
Hygraph supports integrations with systems like WoodWing Studio, CRM, and eCommerce platforms. It also offers marketplace integrations with Google Analytics, Elastic, Zapier, Klaviyo, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Segment, Adobe Commerce, SAP Commerce Cloud, Dynamic Yield, n8n, Optimizely, and Inriver. For a full list, visit Hygraph Marketplace Apps. Note: Integration capabilities depend on API access and technical resources.
Yes, Hygraph is an API-first headless CMS supporting both REST and GraphQL APIs. BioCentury uses GraphQL Mutations to make programmatic changes, reducing manual work and improving data consistency. For details, see Hygraph API documentation. Note: API usage requires technical expertise.
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 certified (since August 2022), uses ISO 27001-certified providers and data centers, and complies with GDPR and CCPA regulations. It offers encryption at rest and in transit, role-based access control, audit logs, advanced firewall rules, and global hosting options. For more details, visit Hygraph security features. Note: Compliance requirements may vary by region and industry.
Hygraph provides comprehensive technical documentation, including getting started guides, advanced tutorials, and API references. Resources are available at Hygraph Documentation. Note: Documentation is updated regularly; check for the latest guides.
David Smiling, CTO at BioCentury, stated: "My eyes lit up at how intuitive content modeling is. Hygraph gives unlimited possibilities of what we can connect and build." This highlights the platform's flexibility and ease of use for content teams. Note: Individual experiences may vary; review additional case studies for broader context.
Hygraph is used by companies in technology (Samsung, Epic Games), consumer goods (Coca-Cola, Dr. Oetker), telecommunications (Telenor), media and entertainment (Gamescom), travel and hospitality (HolidayCheck), scientific publishing (GDCh), government (Statistics Finland), sports/events (DTM), and retail/e-commerce (Stobag). For more examples, visit Hygraph Case Studies. Note: Industry fit depends on specific content management needs.
Hygraph offers pre-configured starter projects, structured onboarding (including introduction calls and technical kickoffs), extensive documentation, training resources, and community support via Slack. Simple projects can be implemented in a few days; complex projects may take longer. For onboarding details, see Hygraph Getting Started guide. Note: Implementation timelines depend on project complexity and team expertise.
Hygraph is best suited for teams needing flexible schema modeling, content federation, and API-driven workflows. Teams requiring highly rigid templates or limited integration capabilities may need additional customization or consider alternatives. Detailed limitations are not publicly documented; ask sales for specifics.
This page wast last updated on 12/12/2025 .
120%
Increase in
content engagement
81%
Decrease in time from
idea to publishing
60K
Indexed pages
BioCentury has been reporting on and dissecting trends through its digital platform for three decades, helping C-level biotech executives and investors sharpen their thoughts.
As the team at BioCentury shifted their vision of delivering content to subscribers, they realized that the existing infrastructure had grown too complex with time, making it difficult to provide a high-quality user experience. Therefore, they were looking to replace their Drupal 6 instance with a more flexible system that could turn their website into a powerful content platform.
Ultimately, BioCentury chose Hygraph, trusting that Hygraph gives unlimited possibilities of what they can connect and build with ease. They now rely on Hygraph to federate their siloed content into a single structured hub, enabling them to publish millions of articles programmatically and share live data with the end users.
My eyes lit up at how intuitive content modeling is. Hygraph gives unlimited possibilities of what we can connect and build.
Previously, the team at BioCentury had a monolithic setup with a sitemap of over 250,000 indexed pages. The website had a complex structure of academic articles, archives, white papers, and conferences, to name a few. The tools that provided CRM and CMS functions were not properly integrated. Further, it would have taken a long time to make improvements to content displays that match their vision using the previous CMS. Therefore, it became clear that it was better to find a new system.
A rigid, template-based publishing process made it difficult for BioCentury to maintain a best-of-class user experience for platform visitors. The team needed flexibility to produce content with more visualization tools. The early days of the COVID-19 outbreak stressed the need to react seamlessly to the crisis and disseminate up-to-date information. A key goal of BioCentury is to make its entries interactive and eventually can share knowledge with real-time information.
BioCentury wanted to find a headless solution to migrate all of its content accumulated over the last 30 years and accommodate its ever-changing content ideas. The team publishes and maintains content in WoodWing Studio. Therefore, it was critical that the new system could programmatically deliver content from WoodWing to the client-side website through API and ensure consistency of data across various systems.
It was necessary for BioCentury to adopt a content platform that enables flexible content types without creating a convoluted infrastructure and provides high-quality data that remains accurate over time. As a global provider of biopharma intelligence and analytics, it is critical to provide a range of real-time services that help their subscribers make informed decisions including news, data, analysis, and custom collected research. All integrated measures weave the platform into subscribers' daily routines, ultimately boosting user engagement and driving subscriber retention rates, leading to increased conversions.
Hygraph stood out as the headless CMS solution during the evaluation phase. According to David Smiling, CTO at BioCentury, the winning moment was the ease of content modeling and how relations were instantly populated. The ease of use and intuitiveness of creating structured content convinced the team to opt for Hygraph.
Today, the BioCentury team uses Hygraph to consume and enrich content across their organization programmatically. It has built bricks for a dynamic page with Hygraph's content federation capability to fetch live data.
Hygraph helped BioCentury with the following approaches:
Today, the content team can easily publish and maintain content on their frontend, using Hygraph as a headless CMS connected with CRM and eCommerce systems, to programmatically create, edit, direct, and deliver content to the necessary places. Using GraphQL Mutations, Hygraph can easily make programmatic changes to the system's content, reducing the amount of manual work for the content team and improving data consistency across the various systems.
BioCentury now has a live data retrieval setup with Hygraph's remote sources.
The data fetched via remote sources were previously inaccessible to the editors and had to be fetched additionally on the frontend. But now, editors can pick the data points they want to display on a particular page. Instead of stitching the data on the frontend, editors have full control over what data points are displayed. The data is retrieved actively via API, so when changes occur in the external source, this data is automatically updated.
BioCentury intends to develop a dynamic page where people can easily find information about a company's development pipelines or receive relevant alerts, allowing them to stay up-to-date with data from various sources.
From a technical standpoint, Hygraph empowers the BioCentury team to create any form of content they imagine using the structured content approach to content modeling. The ability to quickly create flexible content models that suit their wide range of use cases has brought BioCentury closer to its goal of developing a robust content hub. The updated content workflows have also drastically improved the BioCentury team's content creation timelines.
Realistically for me success is when there's a content idea and I can easily see my toolkit, and know yes, it can work. And Hygraph gives me that because the content modelling gives me unlimited possibilities of what we can connect and build based on what we're looking for.
BioCentury's new website is a high-performing project powered by Angular, NodeJS, ZoneJS, Express, HammerJS, Stripe, and Hygraph.
The time to market has drastically reduced from over 2 weeks to 3-4 days.
Be the first to know about releases and industry news and insights.
120%
Increase in
content engagement
81%
Decrease in time from
idea to publishing
60K
Indexed pages
BioCentury has been reporting on and dissecting trends through its digital platform for three decades, helping C-level biotech executives and investors sharpen their thoughts.
As the team at BioCentury shifted their vision of delivering content to subscribers, they realized that the existing infrastructure had grown too complex with time, making it difficult to provide a high-quality user experience. Therefore, they were looking to replace their Drupal 6 instance with a more flexible system that could turn their website into a powerful content platform.
Ultimately, BioCentury chose Hygraph, trusting that Hygraph gives unlimited possibilities of what they can connect and build with ease. They now rely on Hygraph to federate their siloed content into a single structured hub, enabling them to publish millions of articles programmatically and share live data with the end users.
My eyes lit up at how intuitive content modeling is. Hygraph gives unlimited possibilities of what we can connect and build.
Previously, the team at BioCentury had a monolithic setup with a sitemap of over 250,000 indexed pages. The website had a complex structure of academic articles, archives, white papers, and conferences, to name a few. The tools that provided CRM and CMS functions were not properly integrated. Further, it would have taken a long time to make improvements to content displays that match their vision using the previous CMS. Therefore, it became clear that it was better to find a new system.
A rigid, template-based publishing process made it difficult for BioCentury to maintain a best-of-class user experience for platform visitors. The team needed flexibility to produce content with more visualization tools. The early days of the COVID-19 outbreak stressed the need to react seamlessly to the crisis and disseminate up-to-date information. A key goal of BioCentury is to make its entries interactive and eventually can share knowledge with real-time information.
BioCentury wanted to find a headless solution to migrate all of its content accumulated over the last 30 years and accommodate its ever-changing content ideas. The team publishes and maintains content in WoodWing Studio. Therefore, it was critical that the new system could programmatically deliver content from WoodWing to the client-side website through API and ensure consistency of data across various systems.
It was necessary for BioCentury to adopt a content platform that enables flexible content types without creating a convoluted infrastructure and provides high-quality data that remains accurate over time. As a global provider of biopharma intelligence and analytics, it is critical to provide a range of real-time services that help their subscribers make informed decisions including news, data, analysis, and custom collected research. All integrated measures weave the platform into subscribers' daily routines, ultimately boosting user engagement and driving subscriber retention rates, leading to increased conversions.
Hygraph stood out as the headless CMS solution during the evaluation phase. According to David Smiling, CTO at BioCentury, the winning moment was the ease of content modeling and how relations were instantly populated. The ease of use and intuitiveness of creating structured content convinced the team to opt for Hygraph.
Today, the BioCentury team uses Hygraph to consume and enrich content across their organization programmatically. It has built bricks for a dynamic page with Hygraph's content federation capability to fetch live data.
Hygraph helped BioCentury with the following approaches:
Today, the content team can easily publish and maintain content on their frontend, using Hygraph as a headless CMS connected with CRM and eCommerce systems, to programmatically create, edit, direct, and deliver content to the necessary places. Using GraphQL Mutations, Hygraph can easily make programmatic changes to the system's content, reducing the amount of manual work for the content team and improving data consistency across the various systems.
BioCentury now has a live data retrieval setup with Hygraph's remote sources.
The data fetched via remote sources were previously inaccessible to the editors and had to be fetched additionally on the frontend. But now, editors can pick the data points they want to display on a particular page. Instead of stitching the data on the frontend, editors have full control over what data points are displayed. The data is retrieved actively via API, so when changes occur in the external source, this data is automatically updated.
BioCentury intends to develop a dynamic page where people can easily find information about a company's development pipelines or receive relevant alerts, allowing them to stay up-to-date with data from various sources.
From a technical standpoint, Hygraph empowers the BioCentury team to create any form of content they imagine using the structured content approach to content modeling. The ability to quickly create flexible content models that suit their wide range of use cases has brought BioCentury closer to its goal of developing a robust content hub. The updated content workflows have also drastically improved the BioCentury team's content creation timelines.
Realistically for me success is when there's a content idea and I can easily see my toolkit, and know yes, it can work. And Hygraph gives me that because the content modelling gives me unlimited possibilities of what we can connect and build based on what we're looking for.
BioCentury's new website is a high-performing project powered by Angular, NodeJS, ZoneJS, Express, HammerJS, Stripe, and Hygraph.
The time to market has drastically reduced from over 2 weeks to 3-4 days.
Be the first to know about releases and industry news and insights.