Case Study: Janssen achieves scalable R and Shiny analytics with Posit Connect and RStudio Server

Janssen cuts Alzheimer’s analysis from 2.5 days to 5 hours with Posit

The customer, Janssen, a pharmaceutical company under Johnson & Johnson, faced a challenge scaling its use of R and Shiny for scientific analysis. Their scientists needed to easily share code and applications and run computationally intensive R batch jobs, but their traditional single-node RStudio Server and Shiny setup could not meet the increasing demands for compute and memory.

The vendor, Posit, provided RStudio Server and Posit Connect as part of the solution. Janssen's IT team built a robust R-as-a-service environment on AWS, integrating these tools to create a scalable, high-performance computing cluster. This solution dramatically reduced analysis times; for example, one scientist's Alzheimer's disease risk analysis was cut from 2.5 days to just a half-day, significantly accelerating research.

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