BioCentury is a biotechnology publisher that provides deep-dive analysis, high-quality data, and business intelligence reports to industry leaders on a global scale. Their platform helps C-level biotech executives and investors make business-critical decisions. [Source]
BioCentury uses Hygraph for knowledge management portals and websites, enabling them to federate siloed content into a single structured hub and deliver live, accurate data to their subscribers. [Source]
BioCentury's previous monolithic Drupal setup was complex, with over 250,000 indexed pages and poorly integrated CRM and CMS tools. This made infrastructure maintenance difficult, slowed content updates, and limited their ability to deliver a high-quality user experience. [Source]
BioCentury needed a headless solution to migrate 30 years of content, support flexible content types, deliver live and accurate data, and integrate with their existing tools like WoodWing Studio. They also required programmatic content delivery via API and the ability to maintain data consistency across systems. [Source]
BioCentury leveraged several Hygraph features, including Remote Sources for content federation, GraphQL Mutations for programmatic content management, flexible content modeling, and granular permissions with custom roles. These features enabled them to create dynamic pages, manage complex content types, and maintain data accuracy. [Source]
Hygraph's content federation allows BioCentury to fetch live data from remote sources via API, giving editors control over which data points are displayed. When external data changes, updates are reflected automatically, ensuring subscribers always receive up-to-date information. [Source]
Hygraph empowers BioCentury to quickly create flexible content models using a structured content approach. This flexibility allows them to support a wide range of use cases and rapidly adapt to new content ideas, improving content creation timelines. [Source]
Programmatic content management with Hygraph allows BioCentury to create, edit, and deliver content automatically via GraphQL Mutations and APIs. This reduces manual work, improves data consistency, and enables integration with CRM and eCommerce systems. [Source]
BioCentury achieved a 120% increase in content engagement, an 81% decrease in time from idea to publishing, and indexed over 60,000 pages. The time to market for new content was reduced from over 2 weeks to just 3-4 days. [Source]
Hygraph's flexible content modeling and programmatic management enabled BioCentury's team to improve productivity, streamline workflows, and reduce the time required to publish new content. [Source]
The early days of COVID-19 highlighted the need for BioCentury to react quickly and disseminate up-to-date information. Hygraph enabled them to provide real-time updates and maintain a best-in-class user experience during the crisis. [Source]
Hygraph integrated with BioCentury's content creation tool (WoodWing Studio) and other systems via API, enabling programmatic content delivery and ensuring data consistency across platforms. The platform also fit smoothly into their workflow, empowering content teams with more control. [Source]
BioCentury's website is powered by Angular, NodeJS, ZoneJS, Express, HammerJS, Stripe, and Hygraph. [Source]
Hygraph is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant (achieved August 3rd, 2022), ISO 27001 certified, and GDPR compliant. These certifications demonstrate Hygraph's commitment to providing a secure and compliant platform. [Source]
Hygraph provides granular permissions, SSO integrations, audit logs, encryption at rest and in transit, regular backups, and a process for reporting security issues. Enterprise-grade compliance features include dedicated hosting, custom SLAs, and support for GDPR and CCPA. [Source]
You can read the full BioCentury case study on the Hygraph website.
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Hygraph offers a free API playground, a free forever developer account, and a structured onboarding process with introduction calls, account provisioning, and technical and content kickoffs. Extensive documentation, webinars, and live streams are available to help new users get started quickly. [Source]
Hygraph provides 24/7 support via chat, email, and phone, real-time troubleshooting through Intercom chat, a community Slack channel, extensive documentation, and training resources. Enterprise customers receive a dedicated Customer Success Manager. [Source]
Hygraph delivers high performance through features like Smart Edge Cache, high-performance endpoints, and a GraphQL-native API. These ensure fast content delivery, reliability, and scalability for content-intensive applications. [Source]
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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 federated content platform 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.
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