Business Intelligence
Deployment of a modern reporting solution in Looker
How an SME pharmaceutical company modernized its reporting with Fivetran, Snowflake, dbt Cloud and Looker, quadrupling dashboard usage and cutting data quality issues by 80%.

An SME pharmaceutical company faced significant challenges in making data-driven decisions due to outdated tools and unreliable data.
Industry
Healthcare
Location
Europe
Stack
Fivetran · Snowflake · dbt Cloud · Looker
Background
Outdated tools holding back data-driven decisions
An SME pharmaceutical company faced significant challenges in making data-driven decisions due to outdated tools and unreliable data.
Their existing reporting systems failed to meet the growing demands of their teams, resulting in delayed insights and underutilized dashboards.
The solution
Building a modern ingestion-to-insights data stack
Astrafy designed and implemented a modern data stack tailored to the company's needs, integrating the following tools:
Fivetran: Seamless extraction and loading of data from various source systems.
Snowflake: Centralized and scalable cloud data warehouse for fast, reliable analytics.
dbt Cloud: Transformation layer to standardize and model data for downstream use.
Looker: Dynamic, interactive BI dashboards for actionable insights.
We ensured the smooth transition from legacy systems by defining robust data models, cleaning up historical data, and implementing governance practices to enhance data quality.
Flow: Ingestion (Fivetran) → Transformation (Snowflake, dbt) → Insights (Looker)
Results
Key achievements
01
4x increase in dashboard usage
Teams rapidly adopted the new Looker dashboards, demonstrating their usability and value.
02
2x faster dashboard delivery
Improved workflows enabled quicker delivery of critical dashboards to decision-makers.
03
80% decrease in data quality issues
04
Real-time insights
Dashboards now refresh in near real-time, providing up-to-date metrics to guide decisions.
Business Impact
Faster, more reliable decision-making across teams
With the modernized reporting solution, the company achieved:
Faster Decision-Making: Real-time insights empowered leadership to act quickly and effectively.
Higher Efficiency: Automation of data ingestion and transformation reduced manual work.
Increased ROI: The scalable data stack ensured long-term savings and adaptability for future needs.
Improved Collaboration: Cross-functional teams accessed shared dashboards, enabling better alignment.
Enhanced Data Accuracy: Centralized data warehouse eliminated discrepancies, ensuring reliable insights.
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