This business unit in a global life sciences organization was responsible for producing reports and forecasts for seven therapeutic areas in multiple countries in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Working with legacy enterprise tools, the analyst team supported therapeutic leads, forecast managers and country leads with a common Excel model using over 70 brand and country combinations.
The analysts struggled each month to process more than 30 internal and external 30 source files, requiring time consuming, risky manual data manipulation and multiple transformations. Analysts were also spending too much time on data quality management (DQM), keeping workbooks updated, generating PowerPoint reports and supporting an elaborate Excel-based dashboard that offered limited query capabilities for internal clients. They needed an enterprise-class solution that could offer agility and efficiency.
The organization turned to Scarsin for a fully integrated disease forecasting and strategic planning solution that combined sophisticated functionality with agile, simple tools. A pilot project for a subset of the regions assessed the Scarsin platform speed, agility, insights and cost effectiveness. Ray, was this ever rolled out across the organization?
The fully integrated business intelligence solution quickly delivered significant time and cost savings, allowing the analysts to have greater strategic impact. Quick wins included:
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