Pfizer's HR division runs a massive data warehouse that
averages over 1 million queries per day from over 3,000 users. They needed to cut data costs and mitigate regulatory and audit risks and decrease costs.
See how they met their goals, and reduced extract, transform and load (ETL) times, using Appfluent!
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Pfizer Mitigates Risk & Reduces Costs with Appfluent
1. Customer
Pfizer
www.pfizer.com
Industry:
Life Sciences
Pfizer Mitigates Risk &
Reduces Costs with Appfluent
Pfizer applies science and global resources to bring therapies to people that
extend and significantly improve their lives. They strive to set the standard for
quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacture of
health care products. Pfizer’s global portfolio includes medicines, vaccines and
many of the world’s best-known consumer health care products.
The Challenge
The Human Resource division of Pfizer has a massive data warehouse that
averages over one million queries per day from more than 3,000 users. The staff
managing this vast and growing volume of information was experiencing critical
issues with their data warehouse. Their most significant concerns included
mitigation of regulatory and audit risks and decrease costs. They also needed to
reduce extract, transform and load (ETL) times to meet service-level agreements.
However, they did not have visibility into their environment and lacked the data
needed to address these issues.
The Solution
Pfizer selected Appfluent Visibility to provide both BI and data warehouse
business activity and data usage analytics to reduce costs, improve SLA’s and
ensure trusted usage of information. Appfluent quickly delivered correlated,
granular insight into user activity, application data and database information—
all without any disruption of production warehouse systems.
Case Study
2. Based on actual data
usage activity within the
data warehouse, and the
reduction of ETL load
times, Pfizer estimates a
savings of nearly
$400,000 per year.
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Now, Pfizer can capture and correlate usage-analysis over time.
This data is easily shared between all Pfizer BI and data ware-
house constituents. As a result, Pfizer was able to gather impor-
tant knowledge about their environment and quickly realize
returns on their Appfluent investment:
• Insight on which data was most frequently used/not used led to
a 50% reduction of HR data warehouse storage and annual
savings of nearly $400K/year
• User activity details led to a 10x decrease in User IDs from
3000 to 300
• Details on data usage activity made way for changes that
reduced ETL load times by 75% and saved nearly $80K/year.
The insights that Pfizer gained from Appfluent also led to
improvements that better supported compliance with industry
regulations and reduced their audit risks.
About Appfluent
Appfluent provides IT organizations with unprecedented visibility
into usage and performance of data warehouse and business
intelligence systems. IT decision makers can view exactly which
enterprise data is being used or not used, determine how business
intelligence is performing and identify causes of database perfor-
mance issues. With Appfluent, customers can address exploding
data growth and start the smart move to Hadoop and Big Data.