Beyond enterprise-scale challenges, large health care organizations face a regulatory compliance burden of competing needs for privacy and transparency. Operational efficiency, regulatory compliance, and better patient outcomes all hinge on these organizations’ ability to centralize data and provide the right levels of access to patients, researchers, doctors, regulators, and more.

Innovative health care enterprises like Pfizer, Envision Pharma Group, Vida Health, Lyra Health, and Maravai LifeSciences are using Fivetran to streamline their operations, enhance collaboration, and unlock insights to deliver superior outcomes across the board, all while remaining compliant and secure.

Pfizer: Accelerating clinical trials with real-time data and collaboration

Pfizer, a global leader in biopharmaceuticals, manages complex clinical trials that generate immense amounts of data. The process of consolidating and analyzing it in real time is critical for expediting the development of life-saving medicines. The faster they can process clinical trials, the sooner life-saving drugs can be released to the market. Because clinical trials involve data from a wide variety of sources, Pfizer faced challenges with siloed and legacy data systems, manual processes, supply chain tracking, and visibility across every stage, all of which slowed decision-making and operations.

To overcome these challenges, Pfizer chose Fivetran to automate its data ingestion into Snowflake, to lay the foundation for a modern data stack. Centralizing the clinical trial data into a unified environment allowed Pfizer to gain real-time insights that accelerated many aspects of clinical trials, all while maintaining regulatory compliance.

With this improved infrastructure, Pfizer was able to reduce its reliance on manual data workflows and dramatically shorten trial timelines. Automated data pipelines now deliver real-time metrics to key stakeholders, streamlining trial oversight and reducing bottlenecks in regulatory processes.

The results:

• Reduced data processing times from hours to minutes in select use cases, enabling rapid insights and decision-making.
• Enhanced efficiency in delivering data analytics, while maintaining strict regulatory compliance.
• Modernized critical legacy infrastructure using log-based replication.

“Fivetran has given us a centralized, reliable solution to accelerate our data processes. With real-time access to clinical data, we can confidently make decisions that get life-saving treatments to patients faster.”
— John Leone, Senior Manager of Global Platform Support Services at Pfizer

Read the case study: Pfizer speeds up clinical trials by unlocking real-time data

Envision Pharma Group: Getting pharmaceuticals to market faster

Envision Pharma Group, one of the world’s most important medical affairs and pharmaceutical research companies, needed a solution to manage and streamline its complex data integration needs. As a service provider to the world’s biggest drug companies, Envision handles substantial amounts of data for regulatory research and development, particularly in clinical trials. To help clients accelerate the delivery of new life-saving drugs to the market, Envision needed a real-time, unified view to drive compliance with regulatory processes.

Using Fivetran, Envision automated its data integration into Snowflake, creating a scalable data stack for its medical research and development teams. This modernization improved the efficiency of regulatory reviews and approvals of clinical trials data. By providing real-time access to key metrics and data points, Envision Pharma has created an innovative approach to quicker, safer drug development.

Envision’s data journey extends beyond compliance. With unified data, the company’s researchers and regulatory teams can collaborate more effectively, ensuring that clinical trial data is always accurate and up to date in online dashboards, not delayed by paperwork or other inefficiencies. This important work has streamlined manual processes equivalent to the workload of two technical software teams, avoiding any bottlenecks of data maintenance and custom pipeline development.

The results:

• Cut reporting times from weeks to real time.
• Achieved <1 minute data replication into pre-built dashboards.
• Shortened multi-year product development cycle with new architecture, completed in just 6 months. 

“With Fivetran, we help the world’s largest drug providers get their breakthroughs to market faster for better patient outcomes.”
— Joe Zeleski, Data Governance Product Lead at Envision Pharma Group

Read the case study: Envision Pharma Group and Fivetran: Pioneering faster paths in pharma

Vida Health: Personalized health care through real-time insights

Vida Health, a digital health platform offering virtual care for chronic conditions, relied on fragmented and manual data processes that slowed decision-making and created inefficiencies across its operations. Non-engineering teams often had to build ad-hoc pipelines, which couldn’t scale or feed into centralized systems and could cause downtimes of 2-3 days. This not only increased workloads but also hindered the company’s ability to deliver actionable insights in real time.

With Fivetran, Vida Health automated data ingestion workflows for its sources, centralizing everything into Google BigQuery. Eliminating manual processes and thousands of lines of code, Vida’s teams now access real-time insights that enable faster, more informed decision-making. Vida now delivers highly personalized care programs that improve patient outcomes and drive engagement. Many of their insights are sourced from HIPAA-compliant Protected Health Information (PHI) securely delivered by Fivetran and dbt through robust workflow supported by continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).

Vida Health’s modernized data infrastructure has led to efficiency gains across its technical and non-technical teams. Automated workflows allow analytics teams to self-serve data products, cutting the time required for critical reporting and insights. They’re also scaling operations while reducing costs and maintaining the highest standards of patient care.

The results:

• 1 day to generate a KPI for executives, down from 3 months previously.
• 80% of work to create new data products can be self-served by the Analytics team, up from 20%.
• Substantially reduced time spent troubleshooting data issues from weeks to hours.

“Previously data centralization was a slow process because it required custom python jobs. But now many teams set up pipelines and it’s easier to maintain. When we start new projects with new systems or data sources, we often say ‘it all starts with Fivetran.’”
— Trenton Huey, Senior Director of Data at Vida Health‍

Read the case study: Vida Health uses Fivetran and dbt Cloud to provide personalized health care 

Lyra Health: Leading mental health innovation with data lakes and AI

Lyra Health, a leader in workforce mental health care innovation, connects people to life-changing mental health care through personalized treatment plans and a vast network of providers. As demand for its services grew, Lyra faced challenges in scaling its data operations to support personalization and the use of AI in advancing mental health. Of primary importance was the compliant management of sensitive PHI across multiple systems.

Turning to Fivetran, Lyra automated the integration of data from more than 600 data sources into a Databricks Delta Lake using Fivetran Managed Data Lake. AI is used for matchmaking that connects patients with therapists and coaches, leaning on secure data that’s optimized for performance and data quality. With high-quality data, Lyra can process customer feedback, sentiment, and other unstructured data for better insights that create more positive patient outcomes.

Beyond supporting its AI models, Lyra’s centralized data operations have paved the way for HIPAA-compliant data exploration and experimentation. With Fivetran managing data movement, Lyra supplies its AI platform with data that is private, accessible, and ready for training at all times.

The results:

• Compliant, secure, and scalable data processing for 600+ data sources.
• Enhanced patient-provider matching with real-time predictive analytics.
• Cost-effective storage of large, private datasets without redundancy.

“Fivetran makes it easy to ingest data from various systems. [...] The value add is that our data engineers don't have to manage that anymore. Before, we had to selectively pull what is not PII into the warehouse. Now we don't have to do that. We can do auto schema detection and pull everything down into our private lakehouse.”
— Chris Suen, Head of Data at Lyra Health

Read the story: Lyra Health leads mental health innovation with data lakes & AI

Maravai LifeSciences: Unifying financial data for operational efficiency

Maravai LifeSciences is a leader in providing life science tools and services for drug therapies, diagnostics, novel vaccines, and research on human diseases. The company faced challenges in managing financial data across its multiple subsidiaries, desiring more holistic insight and reporting of financial planning and analysis (FP&A) information. With disparate systems and siloed data, generating accurate reports across the organization was time-intensive and challenging.

Fivetran allowed Maravai to integrate financial data from its subsidiaries into a centralized Snowflake environment. A single source of truth enables faster, more accurate financial reporting, giving Maravai’s leadership timely insights for strategic decision-making. Additionally, the modern data infrastructure supports better resource allocation and operational planning across the company. Maravai can quickly and easily answer questions about revenue and make historical comparisons without any manual data work from any subsidiary.

Beyond financial reporting, the unified data environment has empowered Maravai’s teams to collaborate more effectively across departments. By removing barriers to data access and automating manual processes, the company has improved its agility and ability to respond to evolving business needs.

The results:

• Built a new data architecture with preliminary dashboards in 10 weeks.
• Eliminated the need to manually conduct financial analysis in Excel.
• Streamlined executive sales revenue and customer analytics reporting for executives.

“Our teams selected Fivetran for data replication into Snowflake for effortless analytics in Tableau. While there were other capable vendors, their solutions would ultimately take longer to deploy and be more costly to maintain over time. These three vendors [...] have proven to drive business value in all areas of importance to Maravai LifeSciences.”
– Akshay Mehta, Client Services Leader at Maravai LifeSciences

Read the case study: Maravai LifeSciences modernizes financial analytics

Fivetran makes innovation possible for highly regulated health care enterprises

Pfizer, Envision Pharma, Vida Health, Lyra Health, and Maravai LifeSciences showcase the transformative power of modern data infrastructure powered by Fivetran. From accelerating drug development and delivering personalized care to improving financial transparency, these organizations depend on Fivetran to achieve operational excellence and better outcomes for their stakeholders.

By automating workflows and centralizing insights, health care enterprises are reducing inefficiencies, optimizing decision-making, and positioning themselves for long-term growth. Fivetran provides the tools and infrastructure to help organizations thrive in the face of changing regulations and increasing technological demands.

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