reduction in resources to manage the predictive finance platform
60%
improvement in time-to-deliver
100%
compliant & meets security standards
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Key ObjectivesBackground
The nance team of a global pharmaceutical company wanted to improve their Predictive Finance capabilities using GAIA on their data platform to overcome a slew of operational, architectural, and tech-stack diculties with the existing legacy platform.
The desired outcome – through the science of Predictive Finance – was to measure the performance of product and service lines, identify new opportunities for monetization, predict sales, forecast asset usage, and proactively meet P&L objectives. They wanted to make 2-to-3 year predictions globally, by geography, for the revenue related to each drug in its portfolio.
Pain Point
Legacy AI capabilities left the client grappling with problems like diminishing returns, escalating operations cost, and the high risks of new features and enhancements breaking existing functionality. There was also an additional underlying problem. For almost a decade, the client had to employ a team of dedicated data scientists to just run and manage the legacy platform. The client now wanted to simplify the platform to meet the needs of a broader set of users, free its data science team for new projects, reduce time-to-predict and become more responsive.
They wanted to take quick action to transform the platform with minimal disruption and improve the organization’s ability to strategize based on forecasts and predictions. This would also lead to bandwidth creation in the existing data science teams to innovate and create impactful interventions. Plus, they would not be forced to hire more data scientists to attend to new challenges.
Key Objectives
Scalability & replicability
Future-readiness
Increase in speed of delivery
Ease of experimentation for large user base
Reduction of human effort & intervention
Well-organized, consistently written, and modularized code for shorter learning curve
Traceability and model tracking for transparency
Compliant and meeting security standards
Metadata driven and complete configurability for greater flexibility and control
Solution
End-to-end Modernization Roadmap
Altimetrik’s team of practitioners evaluated the existing platform, and in collaboration with the client, co-created a state-of-the-art cloud native architecture with a pluggable core AI engine in Python. The team identified the need for a purpose-built cloud-based architecture with powerful tools and technologies, such as AWS-SageMaker to build and deploy ML models at scale, Snowflake for data warehousing, AI/ ML libraries – guided by advanced data platform architecture principles, and InfoSec prescriptions to deliver the required performance.
This also included transforming the client’s legacy system from R, an aging statistical programming language in which the prediction model was originally written, to the more contemporary and generic Python.
A novel approach was employed to completely integrate and streamline MLOps with CI/CD pipeline to address one of the biggest pain points, i.e., operational complexity and overheads with the legacy AI/ML platform. The client can now trigger processes with a single click to fetch data, process it, and deliver results.
Failures in processes are flagged to the user for remediation. The system incorporates sophisticated resource monitoring with the ability to recover from interrupted or broken processes. The system is metadata-driven and configurable for increased flexibility – unlike the legacy system that lacked consistency and transparency.
The new application and cloud platform combination have been made adaptable and maintainable through well-documented modularization and certified quality standards.
Outcome
Clear separation of data engineering pieces and core data science components for a highly cohesive and de-coupled architecture rendered significant operational ease that enabled the data science team to focus on delivering value-adds instead of regular operations, tracking and maintenance. The new system also shortened the learning curve for new data scientists through well-organized, consistently written, and modularized code.
Resources are now optimally utilized through the combination of system & application-level parallelization along with sophisticated resource monitoring mechanisms.
Altimetrik helped the client achieve:
Faster forecasts for the CFO, adding to organizational agility
80% reduction in resources in managing the platform
Minimized cost of transformation by using an offshore team with less than 10% dependency on the onshore team
Automation reduced human intervention to less than 5%
“Amit Singh is the Chief Strategy Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO at Altimetrik, where he drives corporate strategy, growth acceleration, and value creation through transformation initiatives. In this dual role, he partners closely with leadership teams, investors, and the board to align business strategy with sustained, technology-driven growth.
With over two decades of experience at the intersection of technology, business, and transformation, Amit brings a unique perspective on how organizations can innovate and adapt in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. His career has been defined by building high-performing teams, scaling innovative platforms, and driving organizational change to deliver lasting impact.
Before joining Altimetrik, Amit held senior leadership roles at Visa, where he led technology strategy, engineering, and product development for Real-Time Payments and the Visa Developer Platform. Earlier, he served as Chief Product Officer at a startup and spent more than a decade at Oracle, leading product and engineering teams across a wide range of enterprise software applications.”
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