Case Study: Cogna Educação achieves faster, always-on scholarship processing with MongoDB Atlas

Cogna Educação achieves 100% portal uptime with MongoDB

Cogna Educação, a leading educational organization in Brazil, faced a major challenge with its scholarship application portal. The legacy on-premises system struggled with scalability during seasonal peaks, handling over 57,000 applicants who each submitted numerous documents. This caused significant latency, hardware strain, and risked delays in processing critical student funding, all while operating under the threat of regulatory fines for any outages.

To solve this, Cogna migrated its portal to MongoDB Atlas on Microsoft Azure. The solution streamlined data migration and utilized features like Online Archive for cost-effective tiered storage. The results were transformative: MongoDB enabled 100% portal uptime, reduced latency to just 6ms, and created a scalable system. This ensured faster application reviews and approvals, securely getting more students the funding they need to learn.