Case Study: Astellas Pharma achieves self-service analytics in minutes with Podium Data

A Powerful Cure for Slow Data

Astellas Pharma US, a leading global pharmaceutical company, needed a faster way to support marketing analytics after its existing data warehouse became too slow and inflexible for handling large, complex data needs. Working with Podium Data and its data management platform, Astellas faced the challenge of acquiring and preparing data that had previously taken months, limiting the team’s ability to make timely decisions.

Podium Data implemented a secure, self-service enterprise data lake on a Hadoop cluster in less than 12 weeks, enabling on-demand access to trusted data from 50+ sources. The result was a major boost in speed and scale: analytics cycle time dropped from 90 days to 2 days, new data sets could be delivered in about an hour instead of six months, and Astellas reported a 30-fold increase in analytics projects, along with 50% lower IT system costs.

Astellas Pharma

Chad Dau

VP Analytics