Case Study: NASA achieves $1M+ savings and prevents two years of rework with Neo4j

NASA - Customer Case Study

NASA Johnson Space Center faced a tough knowledge-management challenge: decades of “lessons learned” and a growing mix of structured and unstructured data were locked in siloed systems and searchable only by basic key-list queries. Engineers needed a faster way to explore relationships across programs and eras (Apollo, shuttle, Orion) to prevent repeat problems and make mission-critical insights accessible.

Adopting Neo4j’s graph database let NASA model and visualize connections between records, surfacing relevant past lessons and linking astronaut comments to system impacts. The graph approach helped the Orion team find an Apollo-era solution that averted a problem, saving over two years of work and about $1 million, while providing a scalable platform to connect millions or billions of nodes and uncover long-term trends.

NASA

David Meza

Chief Knowledge Architect