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Slashing Pharma Tech Costs by 66% with Scalable SaaS Data Warehouse Solution

A Fortune 500 company's operations team faced rising technology costs due to their on-premise SAP HANA database, with significant expenses from licensing fees and ongoing maintenance. The high maintenance demands were impacting overall business efficiency.

Specialty

Tech Sourcing

Solution Category

Data Engineering

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The Challenge

  • Escalating Technology Costs: The company faced high expenses associated with SAP HANA licenses, significantly impacting the overall budget and financial efficiency.
  • Maintenance-Related Inefficiencies: Frequent maintenance activities diverted resources and attention away from core business operations, hampering productivity.
  • Data Migration Complexities: Ensuring data consistency and quality during the migration process posed a significant challenge, risking potential data integrity issues.
  • Service Continuity Concerns: They needed to guarantee services relying on the data warehouse functioned correctly post migration, which added complexity to the transition process.

The Solution

We migrated the company’s data warehouse from SAP HANA to Snowflake, using Talend for seamless data integration and quality management. The migration process, including ETL scripts and stored procedures, was automated with key data quality checks to handle duplicates and maintain data integrity.

Business Impact

  • 66%

    Reduction in technology costs

  • $100K

    in Overall Savings

  • 85%

    Query Time Reduction

  • Boosted system

    performance and minimized maintenance

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