Case Study: Pierre Fabre achieves a unified data fabric and 75% faster time-to-data with Denodo Technologies

Pierre Fabre Laboratories Uses the Denodo Platform to Implement a Combined Data Fabric/ Data Mesh Approach

Pierre Fabre Laboratories is a French multinational in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics that relied on a legacy on‑premises data warehouse and siloed data systems. When the company decided to expand from selling through pharmacies to marketing directly to consumers, its aging Oracle-based warehouse, fragmented data sources, and inconsistent governance made the necessary changes slow, costly, and unsustainable.

Pierre Fabre implemented the Denodo Platform to virtualize and modernize its hybrid cloud architecture on Microsoft Azure, creating a combined data fabric/data mesh with a centralized semantic layer and a data marketplace that connects 300+ sources. By 2023 the platform was in production: 1,500 employees and 400 business users were trained, time-to-data fell by 75%, Snowflake costs dropped about 10%, and the company gained faster, lower‑cost development and delivery of trusted data products to support direct‑to‑consumer strategies.

Pierre Fabre

Wassim Bouaziz

IT Director of Integration and Data