Case Study: Pfizer achieves faster data processing and lower TCO with Snowflake

By migrating to Snowflake, this pharma giant has unified business units with greater access to insights and seamless data sharing — all while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO)

Pfizer, the global pharmaceutical company, needed a faster and more secure way to share data across business units in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Before using Snowflake, data sharing depended on copies, ETL pipelines, and manual file transfers, which slowed access, created silos, and made governance difficult.

With Snowflake, including Snowgrid and Secure Data Sharing, Pfizer unified data on a single compliant platform and enabled seamless cross-region collaboration and better supply-chain visibility. Snowflake helped Pfizer process data 4x faster, save 19,000 annual hours, reduce TCO by 57%, and cut overall database costs by 28%, while improving governance and supporting faster M&A integrations.

Pfizer

Steven Ring

Director of Enterprise Database Solutions