Customer Story

Biopharma Giant Unlocks Faster Data Insights with Databricks Overhaul

What we did

Provided expert Databricks optimizations to automate manual data processes and integrate complex data sources, streamlining workflows and accelerating insights.

The company can now generate timely, reliable insights to make data-driven decisions with confidence, giving them a competitive edge in key business negotiations.

Industry

  • Healthcare

Technologies

  • Databricks

The Problem

A global biopharma leader was underutilizing their Databricks implementation and wanted to augment their in-house expertise with expert consulting to fully leverage the platform’s capabilities.

This additional capacity accelerated their ability to provide time-sensitive and accurate data insights necessary for strategic operational decisions and confident contract negotiations.

The Solution & Results

Four key optimizations were made to the company’s Databricks implementation, resulting in more value from their tool investment and improved processes across the entire data lifecycle:

  • Migrated ETL processes from Qlik into Databricks, automating legacy data processing and data integration, which reduced manual data handling and a “dump the data to Excel” mindset to enable quicker, more reliable data insights.
  • Created logical data models within Databricks tailored to specific business challenges, such as market share analysis, gross-to-net calculations, and a comprehensive view of patient experiences. This allowed the company to interpret metrics more accurately and make informed decisions in these critical areas.
  • Implemented Databricks’ serverless SQL warehouse to manage large datasets, eliminating the need for manual server management and ensuring scalable, efficient data processing. This focused the team’s time and energy on generating insights rather than administrative IT activities.
  • Utilized Databricks’ Delta tables to improve data accessibility and streamline data processing, providing a unified storage format that enables faster queries and real-time data updates.

Analytics8 continues to provide ongoing engineering support and expertise to expand and showcase the use of advanced analytics at the company — a more cost-effective and nimble approach than having to invest in a specialized in-house data engineering team.

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