From New York, Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante, co-hosts of theCUBE, managed to talk to Jigesh Saheba, Chief Architect, ADP Innovation Labs, about MongoDB.

“The Lab’s mission is very simple: we use technology to build amazing products for our clients,” says Saheba. “These products enable them to manage their most important resource – the people.”

“At Innovation Labs we incubate products and technologies. We introduced mobile technology a couple of years ago, with great succes, and Mongo DB is a critical component of that,” added Jigesh Saheba.

He agrees that mobile changed everything. Once the new technology emerged (mobile tsunami, cloud computing), the modern consumers started demanding a new type of extremes: fast acces, access anywhere-anytime, access on any device of their choice, as well as the possibility to bring their own device to work and use it…

“Devices are personal. From an enterprise application perspective, we wanted to create an architecture and product that addressed a lot of the demands of the modern consumer.” Saheba takes pride in building an architecture that delivered on those demands.

For the consumer, performance is everything.

Bringing up the particular challenges from a consumer standpoint, Vellante wanted to know how the company identifies “the culprit”? It can be so many things: the servers, the network, the database, the storage, and so on.  Saheba explained how they are addressing these challenges.

It’s true, he says, that mobile introduced this expectations of things being available anytime-anywhere, even in the low-latency of the cellular network, and they wanted access to Enterprise applications in real-time. “We set out to create a new architecture, a web-scale architecture that could scale-up to millions of users.” Looking at all the components of ADP, they engineered the front-end to be highly performing and extremely scalable.

About using MongoDB, Saheba said it’s because they needed a database technology that delivered the user experience modern consumers have come to expect. It needed to have high performance, scalability and reliability while also preserving the data manipulation capabilities of traditional relational databases.