Modernizing financial insights to deliver innovative treatments

To better deliver financial insights critical for operations and research, The Amgen FIT team went from excel based reporting to data flows using multiple data systems and Alteryx. While access to data improved, having data spread and processed by multiple tools meant manual effort for security and governance and difficulty adding new data and delivering new insights. In addition, the specialized skills needed made finding and onboarding resource difficult. The result was slowed availability of data and not keeping up with evolving business needs.

To speed access to data, the team leverage Alteryx for data preparation for quick fixes but it grew to manage core data. This constrained overall capacity with limited ability to scale up for peak processing. And with no granular governance, it was difficult to operate enterprise wide. With locked-in, proprietary workflows, it was hard to find and scale up new team members. The result was additional effort to deliver data, compromising the team’s ability to make quick, data-driven decisions.