Case Study: Novant Health achieves faster data access and performance with Starburst

Novant Health - Customer Case Study

Novant Health, a large not-for-profit healthcare organization with 35,000 team members and operations across 800 locations, needed a faster way to give analysts and data scientists access to distributed data across an on-prem warehouse, Azure data lake, and operational systems. As it worked toward centralizing data in Azure, the team needed a solution that could provide timely, queryable access without waiting months or years for a single source of truth. Novant Health chose the Starburst platform to support this challenge.

Starburst deployed as an abstraction layer over Novant Health’s varied data sources, enabling users to query data where it lives while maintaining centralized management and monitoring. The result was high-performance distributed querying, near real-time access to newer operational data, and easier support for the organization’s broader Azure data platform initiative. Novant Health reported 60% faster access to data on average and access to 7 distributed datasets through one tool, helping teams make faster, more data-driven decisions.

Novant Health

Justin Byrd

VP of Data Platform & Integration