Case Study: AbbVie achieves 10‑fold productivity improvement and $5M annual cost savings with MarkLogic

AbbVie Achieves a 10-fold Productivity Improvement and Realizes Significant Cost and Efficiencies with MarkLogic and AWS

AbbVie, a global biopharmaceutical company facing drug development cycles that can take up to a decade, struggled with fragmented knowledge stored in silos and limited collaboration tools that slowed scientists, analysts, and marketers from finding and sharing critical information. These challenges hindered agility, increased costs, and delayed time-to-market for new therapies.

By deploying MarkLogic on AWS to unify and index content with fast ingestion, full-text search, keyword filtering, and fine-grained access control, AbbVie dramatically improved data discovery and collaboration across teams. The initiative cut IT project capital costs by $5M in one year, reduced personnel support to fewer than 10 FTEs, increased productivity tenfold, sped time-to-market, and strengthened security.

Abbvie

Derek Debe

Director of Innovation and Emerging Technologies