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Pharmaceutical companies are under increasing pressure to stand out from the crowd in an industry facing pricing pressures, promotional saturation, regulatory scrutiny, reduced product differentiation and increased customer and channel complexity. The healthcare market faces the dual paradox of being awash in data but often lacking in insight. Some of these companies are finding the means to pull ahead of the pack through leveraging analytics in broader and dramatically more effective ways. They are creating the organisational capability to develop and execute against differentiated insights. AsteRx was dealing with large data volumes, comprising millions of scripts from a national sample of hundreds of physicians to be analysed in a myriad of ways that would take weeks to manipulate for a single result. Customers were provided with raw research data, usually in Access or CSV format, making it difficult from which to draw insight. Furthermore, data contained lots of hierarchies, continually changing data frequency with varying levels of data aggregation. Multiple data sources also needed to be integrated with different formats, languages and data structures.

Gwent Police, a force in South Wales, United Kingdom, was facing several challenges. The existing performance management system was incapable of providing information for internal stakeholders. The force needed a system that could provide crime mapping and support intelligence-led policing. The previous system was paper-based and took a whole day to compile monthly staff performance reports. Information was dispersed under different applications in the force’s Command and Control system. The force was also keen to identify the availability of appropriately trained staff and highlight where there were shortages.

Allina Health, a not-for-profit healthcare system, is dedicated to the prevention and treatment of illness and enhancing the health of individuals, families, and communities throughout Minnesota and western Wisconsin. The organization has a comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR) system, Epic, which plays a key role in its success. However, Allina Health is also part of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) Innovation’s Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) model, which requires a strong information infrastructure to manage and visualize the enormous amount of data that will eventually be reported to the government. The goal of this infrastructure is to bring all medical and patient information together, enabling Allina to evaluate its performance, identify areas for improvement, and discover ways for clinicians and care teams to deliver better care to patients.