Case Study: IRT achieves real-time healthcare analytics (150 metrics) and 40% reduction in data engineering costs with Snowflake

IRT Strives for Better Health Outcomes with Snowflake

IRT is an Eastern Australia aged‑care provider serving 9,100 clients across Queensland, New South Wales and the ACT with more than 2,600 staff. The organization struggled with an aging on‑premises SQL data warehouse that lacked scalability and reliability, suffered outages and capacity limits, and made it hard to deliver timely, governed insights from growing volumes of structured and unstructured health data.

IRT migrated to Snowflake—completing a proof‑of‑concept and core integrations (including Power BI) within three months—moving to a low‑management, cloud‑native platform. The shift cut data engineering and maintenance costs by 40%, boosted analytics team productivity by about 60%, supports 320+ data pipelines and 170 analytical models from 20+ sources, enables real‑time analysis of 150+ healthcare metrics, reduced new‑source onboarding from a week to a day, and improved data governance and secure sharing for better client outcomes.

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Shaun Maris

Group Head of Data and Analytics