Case Study: IQVIA achieves 90% faster healthcare insights and secure, scalable data sharing with Snowflake Data Cloud

Iqvia Provides Vital Healthcare Insights To The World With The Snowflake Data Cloud

IQVIA is a global leader in healthcare data and analytics, processing more than 100 billion healthcare records a year and offering the IQVIA Health Data Engine (IHDE) — a self‑service platform providing access to over a billion de‑identified Real World Data patient records from electronic medical records, claims and prescription sources worldwide. Faced with tens of petabytes of data, growing client demand, strict governance requirements and the prohibitive cost of migrating its on‑premises SQL estate to Azure, IQVIA needed a scalable, performant and compliant platform to ingest, analyze and share massive datasets quickly.

IQVIA migrated to the Snowflake Data Cloud in 18 months, consolidating eight parallel SQL instances into a single hosted platform to ingest data from thousands of sources and share it securely with clients. The move cut large data load times from days to hours (example: 3 days to under a day; a 35‑hour reduction for largest datasets), delivered insights up to 90% faster, drove roughly 80% productivity gains for common analyses, eliminated heavy CSV exports via secure data collaboration, and provided a foundation for Healthcare‑grade AI and regulatory‑compliant workflows.

IQVIA

Edwin Banfield

Associate Product and Strategy Director