INTRODUCTION
Intuit has a comprehensive Automated Compliance Platform (ACP), which ensures the company’s applications and resources are secure and compliant. As Intuit continues to grow and serve more customers, it looks to increase its platform capabilities while reducing outages and performance problems.
That’s why Intuit turned to MongoDB Atlas, the modern, multi-cloud database platform, to scale ACP performance. MongoDB Atlas provides double the performance, compared to Intuit’s previous solution, at a lower cost, and enables real-time visibility of operations to drive greater return on investment. Using the integrated Business Intelligence (BI) Connector, Intuit is also able to use its preferred BI tools to access MongoDB data directly and integrate external dashboarding.
THE CHALLENGE
Automating compliance in the public cloud
Intuit is the global technology platform that helps consumers and small businesses overcome their most important financial challenges. Through products such as TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp, the company serves more than 100 million customers worldwide, saving them time and money while giving them confidence in their financial decisions.
As the company migrated its systems onto the public cloud, Intuit faced new challenges when it began to rely on its own development teams for security compliance on a number of public cloud accounts.
“The move to the public cloud has changed compliance evaluations and evidence collection dramatically, which is why we developed our own Automated Compliance Platform,” says Matt Gravlin, Principal Software Engineer, Intuit. ”ACP evaluates hundreds of unique checks across cloud and non-cloud resources, generating millions of evaluation results per day.”
While ACP advanced Intuit’s platforms, the technology teams continued to look for a document database solution that could match the level of performance, scalability, and flexibility the company needed. The team searched the market for a solution, leading them to MongoDB.
THE SOLUTION
A modern, fully featured database platform
“We have a strong culture of innovation at Intuit and twice a year we host an internal event called Global Engineering Days (GED), which gives our engineers a dedicated week to innovate and experiment with new projects,” says Gravlin. “MongoDB Atlas was at the top of our exploration list for GED in 2022.”
Gravlin’s team successfully migrated their development environment to MongoDB Atlas within that week, and to production soon after. With the Atlas platform in place, it was simply a matter of pointing the data streams to a different endpoint. Atlas instantly brought new functionality, such as real-time monitoring, as well as integration with the QlikSense Business Intelligence Connector. Intuit also began using MongoDB Charts to visualize the data and metrics.
“The migration was incredibly easy and only required a switch of the endpoint to the new MongoDB Cluster, so we were in full production within a week,” says Barry Ruffner, Senior Software Engineer, Intuit. “We created a list of all features we were looking for with the migration, and we successfully implemented them with minimal development time.”
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