AstraZeneca was facing integration challenges with their point-to-point interfaces between local reporting systems. This led to duplicated work, fragmented reporting, and high costs. HCL proposed providing a comprehensive cloud-based analytics solution on Amazon Web Services to address these issues. The solution would include robust data processing and connectors to integrate different data sources, as well as analytics, visualization, and reporting tools to provide a unified view of information and reduce costs.

1. AstraZeneca – Amazon Analytics Cloud Services

2. Amazon Analytics Cloud Services
British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical and biologics company
Business Context /
Challenges
Integration challenges
• Point to point interfaces
• Local reporting and data
gathering to fill the gaps
• Intensive manual
reconciliation
• Local systems to resolve
integration gaps, incurring
local costs and support
effort
• Little re-use of data for
multiple purposes
Pain points
• Duplicated licences and
contracts
• Tying up headcount in
duplicated tasks
• Fragmented reporting and
reconciliation
• Multiple integration points
Solution
HCL provides a comprehensive cloud based
solution which comprises of the following in addition to
requirements specified in RFI(detailed solution
explanation provided in subsequent slides):
• A robust, proven, secure, public cloud service
from Amazon Web Services (AWS) with menu
based pricing
• A powerful data processing layer which can
leverage elastic computing
• Pre-defined set of data connectors and
adapters that can be leveraged to easily pull data
having different formats (structured, semi-structured
and unstructured) from different
sources
• A wide variety of technology options to
implement best of breed technologies for meeting
AstraZeneca’s requirements
• APIs that allow easy connection to different
sets of analytics, visualization and reporting tools
• A robust Data Quality Framework to ensure
quality of data being processed for purpose of
reporting. Availability of pre-defined operational
dashboards
• A Next generation platform to enable advanced
analytics using BigData frameworks
Potential Benefits
Universal
• Commonly understood view of
sales & marketing information
Integrated
• Correlated with other data and
governed by common master
data
On Demand
• Available when required,
accessible in the right format,
timely
Cost Effective
• More for less cost and effort
(IT and business)
• Delivered through a smart
technology layer and toolset
built once, shared many times
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3. HCL’s Understanding of Requirements
Data Hosting Data Supply Data Processing
Analysis, Visualizations &
Reporting
Others
Data partitioning Structured & unstructured data Create custom reports Create custom reports UI/ UX
customization
Data backup &
restore
Delta updates Work on permitted data Access reports across
devices
Internationalization
& localization
Secure data access Batch updates Collaborate on permitted
data
Use existing tools Friendly user
interface
Secure data holding Secure upload Task based collaboration Secure work areas Security policies
Scalable Scalable & flexible Use existing tools Performance SLAs
Monitoring AZ, Partner & Web data Report management
Publish reports on the web Secure work areas
User management
Traffic management
Task/workflow management
Upload management
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Data
Supply
Data
Processing
Analytics &
Visualization
AZ
Enterprise
Data
Third Party Data
& Web Data
Analysts
Local
Market Data
Dashboards
& Reports
Publish
Dashboards
& Reports
End
Users
Data Hosting
Dashboards
& Reports

4. Solution Architecture
AZ
AZ Global Enterprise
Global Firewall
Data Landing Zone
EDW
Additional
Enterprise
Data
(Source 1)
Additional
Enterprise
Data
(Source 2)
AZ Local/Regional Enterprise
Local Firewall
Data Landing Zone
Regional
Data
AZ Local/Regional Enterprise
Local Firewall
Data Landing Zone
Regional
Data
Data Supply Data Processing Data Hosting
Monitoring
AWS
Monitoring
Monitoring
AWS
Monitoring
Monitoring
AWS
Monitoring
DWH On Cloud
AWS Redshift
DB User based Access Control
Global Data Region 1 Data Region 2 Data
Data Processing Zone
AWS Informatica/ Elastic Map Reduce
Data Validation Processing Program/Job
Landing Zone/ Staging Area
AWS Redshift
Global Bucket
(EDW +
Additional Enterprise Data
Local/Region 1
Bucket
Local/Region 2
Bucket
Access Control
Reporting, Analysis and Visualization
Single Sign-on-AWS
Identity and Access
Management/ Any
other IAM on AWS
Analysis Tool
SAS(on AWS Instance)
Role Based Access Control
Analytics Workbench
Connector(S)
Reporting, Visualization Tools
Existing Tools, on premise or
on AWS
Role Based Access Control
Reporting
Module
Visualization
Module
Connector(S)
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AZ Source Data/Systems Amazon Web Services Consumer