Google Cloud Platform Case Studies Moderna uses the right dose of data to boost discovery

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Moderna uses the right dose of data to boost discovery

Google Cloud Platform

Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals Life Sciences
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Edge Computing & Edge Intelligence Predictive Maintenance Process Control & Optimization Real-Time Location System (RTLS) Supply Chain Visibility
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services System Integration
Challenge	Moderna, a research-driven organization, has always relied heavily on data for its operations. However, the company faced challenges in accessing actionable insights from its data. The majority of employees relied primarily on Excel for data analysis, with some researchers utilizing Spotfire Desktop. These tools required significant manual work and set a high barrier to entry. This manual process led to data silos across the organization, limited opportunity to further explore data, and created issues of consistency resulting from various and conflicting versions of the same report. The company needed a solution that would improve self-service and exploration, maintain data quality and consistency, and ensure the new tool would be cost-effective and integrate with the tools Moderna already had in place. Read More
About Customer	Moderna is a Cambridge, MA based company that believes that messenger RNA, or mRNA, is the “software of life.” Since being founded in 2010, the company has worked to pioneer a new class of medicines based on their extensive research into mRNA. In a highly regulated industry, Moderna knows the critical importance data plays in key processes for the creation, approval, and distribution of vaccines and therapeutics. When the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, the pressure to find a fast, effective, and safe vaccine became a global priority. As the need for accurate, auditable, and actionable insights has become greater, Moderna has leveraged its modern, multicloud data stack to prioritize the job at hand. Read More
Solution	Moderna selected Looker’s data application platform to increase organization-wide access to trusted, secure metrics. With strategic guidance from Looker's Professional Services, Moderna formulated a small team of two people to build a foundation for self-service analytics. Following best practices for scalable and flexible deployments, Moderna was able to access trusted insights from Looker within a few weeks of implementation. Today, Moderna uses Etleap for real-time ETL into Amazon Redshift. They use Looker for building models, transformation on the fly, data exploration, and self-service. And they use Google sentiment processes to pull insights from their ticketing system, ServiceNow. Moderna’s modern multicloud data strategy allows the company to centralize, access, and take action on trusted data across the organization. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Data-as-a-Service

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Life Sciences

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Edge Computing & Edge Intelligence

Predictive Maintenance

Process Control & Optimization

Real-Time Location System (RTLS)

Supply Chain Visibility

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

System Integration

Challenge

Moderna, a research-driven organization, has always relied heavily on data for its operations. However, the company faced challenges in accessing actionable insights from its data. The majority of employees relied primarily on Excel for data analysis, with some researchers utilizing Spotfire Desktop. These tools required significant manual work and set a high barrier to entry. This manual process led to data silos across the organization, limited opportunity to further explore data, and created issues of consistency resulting from various and conflicting versions of the same report. The company needed a solution that would improve self-service and exploration, maintain data quality and consistency, and ensure the new tool would be cost-effective and integrate with the tools Moderna already had in place.

About Customer

Moderna is a Cambridge, MA based company that believes that messenger RNA, or mRNA, is the “software of life.” Since being founded in 2010, the company has worked to pioneer a new class of medicines based on their extensive research into mRNA. In a highly regulated industry, Moderna knows the critical importance data plays in key processes for the creation, approval, and distribution of vaccines and therapeutics. When the COVID-19 pandemic started in 2020, the pressure to find a fast, effective, and safe vaccine became a global priority. As the need for accurate, auditable, and actionable insights has become greater, Moderna has leveraged its modern, multicloud data stack to prioritize the job at hand.

Solution

Moderna selected Looker’s data application platform to increase organization-wide access to trusted, secure metrics. With strategic guidance from Looker's Professional Services, Moderna formulated a small team of two people to build a foundation for self-service analytics. Following best practices for scalable and flexible deployments, Moderna was able to access trusted insights from Looker within a few weeks of implementation. Today, Moderna uses Etleap for real-time ETL into Amazon Redshift. They use Looker for building models, transformation on the fly, data exploration, and self-service. And they use Google sentiment processes to pull insights from their ticketing system, ServiceNow. Moderna’s modern multicloud data strategy allows the company to centralize, access, and take action on trusted data across the organization.

Impact #1	Moderna is able to create and take action with a more holistic view of their clinical trials than has previously been possible. Today, the company can analyze within and across internal data sets (such as clinical operations, race, gender, age, risk group) and external data sets (such as epidemiology, census, etc).
Impact #2	Since implementing Looker, the process of formulating and testing hypotheses has been greatly streamlined to allow scientists to use time they previously spent on manual reporting to focus on research and discovery.
Impact #3	For a team that manages 60,000+ shipments per year, real-time access to shipping dashboards has allowed the logistics team to greatly improve their processes while also helping them to accurately track and meet their budget targets.

Impact #1

Moderna is able to create and take action with a more holistic view of their clinical trials than has previously been possible. Today, the company can analyze within and across internal data sets (such as clinical operations, race, gender, age, risk group) and external data sets (such as epidemiology, census, etc).

Impact #2

Since implementing Looker, the process of formulating and testing hypotheses has been greatly streamlined to allow scientists to use time they previously spent on manual reporting to focus on research and discovery.

Impact #3

For a team that manages 60,000+ shipments per year, real-time access to shipping dashboards has allowed the logistics team to greatly improve their processes while also helping them to accurately track and meet their budget targets.

Benefit #1	Reduced the time scientists spend on manual data manipulation to increase research time and collaboration
Benefit #2	Optimized shipments to reduce costs and meet budget goals

Benefit #1

Reduced the time scientists spend on manual data manipulation to increase research time and collaboration

Benefit #2

Optimized shipments to reduce costs and meet budget goals

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Moderna uses the right dose of data to boost discovery

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