Case Study: Major Pharmaceutical Company achieves faster provider payments and compliant, low-cost data retention with Cloudera

Major Pharmaceutical Company - Customer Case Study

A healthcare IT subsidiary of a major pharmaceutical company that helps healthcare organizations exchange and process electronic claims faced serious scalability and compliance challenges: its legacy databases were overloaded by the mandate to retain seven years of claims and remit data while processing millions of daily transactions, and the risk/compliance team required robust encryption and privileged‑access controls for regulated data.

The company prototyped Hadoop and then deployed Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub with Flume and Sqoop for continuous ingestion and data movement, and Vormetric for centralized encryption and key management. The new platform offloaded transactional systems, enabled analytics on archived data, simplified administration, met compliance requirements, and reduced provider payment cycle times — delivering lower storage costs (industry‑standard hardware ~10x cheaper per TB), rapid deployment, and operational efficiencies (30 TB in 4 months; ~1 TB/day processing).