Case Study | Life Sciences | AI and Data Engineering

Global pharma cuts decision cycles by 66% with AI

How AI-driven data unification replaced manual workflows and accelerated field and financial performance at scale.

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How AI modernized a global pharma data ecosystem

  • A global biopharmaceutical company focused on chronic diseases needed to modernize fragmented commercial data operations limiting field effectiveness.
  • Siloed systems, manual SQL reporting, and static dashboards prevented the company from acting on insights quickly enough to support patient care.
  • Brillio integrated IQVIA, CRM, claims, and sales data into a unified view, deploying AI and GenAI solutions across five commercial operations workstreams.
  • The result was 56% overall cost savings, 25% higher field productivity, and an 18% improvement in patient therapy adherence across the ecosystem.

Breaking the data deadlock in pharma commercial ops

Challenge

A global biopharmaceutical company dedicated to combating chronic diseases, including diabetes and obesity, had built a strong reputation for high-touch engagement with healthcare providers (HCPs) and patients. But as the life sciences industry shifted toward omnichannel engagement and real-time field intelligence, the company’s legacy data ecosystem became a growing liability.

The problems were specific and interconnected. Insights were fragmented across siloed systems, which weakened both HCP and patient engagement. Financial reporting depended entirely on manual SQL queries, slowing decision-making and introducing errors that eroded confidence in the numbers. Program and consulting data were scattered across multiple platforms, making reconciliation slow and resource-intensive.

On the front lines, field teams had access only to static dashboards with limited interactivity. They couldn’t ask follow-up questions of their data, couldn’t surface insights on demand, and couldn’t act with the agility the market required. Meanwhile, coaching and performance feedback data sat in unstructured formats, requiring laborious manual processing before any meaningful pattern could be extracted.

Together, these inefficiencies compounded. The organization was carrying the weight of a data infrastructure that had served it well in a previous era but couldn’t support the speed, scale, or personalization that modern commercial operations demanded. The cost wasn’t only operational. Delayed reimbursement processing, incomplete HCP views, and slow therapy initiation had direct consequences for patients who needed faster access to care.

Solution

To lead the modernization, the company partnered with our experts at Brillio, selecting the firm for its pharmaceutical domain expertise, full-stack agile delivery model, and hybrid Core-Flex resourcing approach designed to maintain continuity without disrupting ongoing operations.

We executed a multi-pronged transformation across five workstreams. First, commercial operations were unified by integrating IQVIA, CRM, claims, and sales data into a 360-degree HCP-patient view built on Snowflake, Tableau, and Spark, giving field representatives a complete picture of each engagement.

For financial operations, our team deployed an LLM-powered chatbot integrated with Snowflake Cortex Analyst. The chatbot automated SQL query generation and delivered contextual insights through natural language interactions, removing the manual bottleneck entirely. Contract data retrieval was addressed through GenAI-powered chatbots that extracted and classified metadata from unstructured contracts stored in Snowflake, cutting retrieval time significantly.

Static reporting was replaced by a Snowflake-based conversational chatbot embedded directly in Qlik dashboards. Field teams could now generate insights through natural language queries and engage in multi-turn conversations with their data in real time. Finally, coaching and performance feedback data were made actionable through a Cortex LLM-powered chatbot that combined structured metrics with free-text sentiment analysis, surfacing competency trends and performance themes at scale.

The deployment was consulting-led and phased, reinforced by SLA-backed governance models, KPI tracking, iterative feedback loops, and end-to-end operational support covering incident management and platform monitoring.

Measurable outcomes across cost, field, and patient care

Outcomes

  • Manual SQL effort dropped by 80%, and financial decision cycles shortened by 66%, giving leadership faster, more reliable operational intelligence.
  • Field representative productivity increased by 25%, while call effectiveness improved by 20%, directly strengthening HCP engagement quality across the organization.
  • Contract data retrieval times fell by 80%, and time-to-insight across Qlik dashboards improved by 75 to 85% through conversational AI access.
  • Patient therapy adherence improved by 18% and reimbursement delays dropped by 25%, strengthening patient access to care and treatment continuity.
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The business case for AI in pharma commercial ops

Across five interconnected workstreams, Brillio's AI and GenAI solutions eliminated manual bottlenecks, unified fragmented data, and delivered conversational intelligence to field and financial teams. The combined effect was 56% overall cost savings alongside measurable gains in both patient outcomes and operational speed.

Cost Reduction Delivered

56%

Overall cost savings achieved through AI-driven commercial operations modernization across five workstreams.

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