Google Cloud Platform Case Studies PDX + Looker: Helping Pharmacies to Help Patients

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PDX + Looker: Helping Pharmacies to Help Patients

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Databases
Applicable Industries	Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Predictive Quality Analytics
Services	Data Science Services
Challenge	PDX, a market leader in pharmacy management software and services, faced challenges with limited access in the type of reporting they could run on their data. The company's existing system was text-based, and pharmacies had to load their own data into their own data warehouse. This setup was not efficient and did not provide a good visual representation of the data. PDX realized that these limitations would present issues down the road and started looking for a more efficient way to present data in a more concise way. Read More
About Customer	PDX has been a market leader in pharmacy management software and services for over 30 years. The company's products and services are used by over 10,000 pharmacies in the United States to provide patient care, accounting services, and reporting tools for operational management. PDX's client base consists of pharmacies that need to load their own data into their own data warehouse. The company's goal is to provide a good visual representation of data to its clients. Read More
Solution	PDX decided to use Looker for reporting on top of their own suite of applications. This helped PDX to build a powerfully customizable in-house analytics tool. The company also used Snowflake in tandem with Looker to find the right balance of power and flexibility needed to roll out their services to their customers. With this new level of data access, PDX’s customers are getting more value out of their data, visualizing, slicing and dicing to find ways to better serve their customers and utilize their own data. Visualizations simplify what they’re looking at, so anyone can do their own slicing and dicing of the data to find answers themselves. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Databases

Applicable Industries

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Predictive Quality Analytics

Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

PDX, a market leader in pharmacy management software and services, faced challenges with limited access in the type of reporting they could run on their data. The company's existing system was text-based, and pharmacies had to load their own data into their own data warehouse. This setup was not efficient and did not provide a good visual representation of the data. PDX realized that these limitations would present issues down the road and started looking for a more efficient way to present data in a more concise way.

About Customer

PDX has been a market leader in pharmacy management software and services for over 30 years. The company's products and services are used by over 10,000 pharmacies in the United States to provide patient care, accounting services, and reporting tools for operational management. PDX's client base consists of pharmacies that need to load their own data into their own data warehouse. The company's goal is to provide a good visual representation of data to its clients.

Solution

PDX decided to use Looker for reporting on top of their own suite of applications. This helped PDX to build a powerfully customizable in-house analytics tool. The company also used Snowflake in tandem with Looker to find the right balance of power and flexibility needed to roll out their services to their customers. With this new level of data access, PDX’s customers are getting more value out of their data, visualizing, slicing and dicing to find ways to better serve their customers and utilize their own data. Visualizations simplify what they’re looking at, so anyone can do their own slicing and dicing of the data to find answers themselves.

Impact #1	PDX was able to build a powerfully customizable in-house analytics tool using Looker.
Impact #2	The company found the right balance of power and flexibility needed to roll out their services to their customers using Looker in tandem with Snowflake.
Impact #3	PDX’s customers are getting more value out of their data, visualizing, slicing and dicing to find ways to better serve their customers and utilize their own data.

Impact #1

PDX was able to build a powerfully customizable in-house analytics tool using Looker.

Impact #2

The company found the right balance of power and flexibility needed to roll out their services to their customers using Looker in tandem with Snowflake.

Impact #3

PDX’s customers are getting more value out of their data, visualizing, slicing and dicing to find ways to better serve their customers and utilize their own data.

Benefit #1	By the end of 2018, over ¾ of PDX's pharmacies will be using Looker in some way or another.

Benefit #1

By the end of 2018, over ¾ of PDX's pharmacies will be using Looker in some way or another.

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PDX + Looker: Helping Pharmacies to Help Patients

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