Navicon BI Pharma

2020: Transition to Microsoft Azure

The system integrator and Navicon developer transferred the analytical solution for pharmproizvoditel of Navicon Pharma BI to a cloud platform of Microsoft Azure. It became known on February 4, 2020. Now clients of the company will be able to use possibilities of Azure Data Platform services, including tools for work with Big Data and AI and also to reduce costs for local IT infrastructure.

The solution Navicon Pharma BI is designed to simplify acceptance of management decisions to a basis of the analysis of sales and communications with clients, dynamics of the market and competitors and also to estimate results of work with pharmacy chains and distributors. After transfer of Navicon Pharma BI in Microsoft Azure cloud clients of integrator had following features:

• use services of advanced analytics of Big Data and AI;
• receive high-quality service worldwide on any device;
• reduce CAPEX by local infrastructure and to manage flexibly costs for cloud services;
• to quickly scale resources of the cloud storage and together with them computing opportunities of Azure that it is especially relevant during financial closure or calculation of KPI and bonuses of employees.

Now the system integrator will provide three options of deployment Navicon Pharma BI:

• Solution deployment on local servers of pharmaceutical companies. Such method is relevant for those who already have necessary computing powers or whose security policy does not provide placement of data in a cloud environment.
• Use of the hybrid scenario. It will suit the companies which want to get all advantages of use of a cloud, and at the same time to store data in local infrastructure.
• Use of the cloud scenario. Will be suitable for a broad spectrum of the companies for which for possibilities of the additional Azure Data Platform tools – services of analytics of Big Data and AI are necessary. Besides, the companies who only begins to develop own BI competences will be able to reduce the experiment price, having begun with small capacities without capital costs.

We selected the reliable and safe platform of cloud computing Microsoft Azure as in the Russian market it is the most complex product allowing to work with data of different volumes, different structure and degree of readiness. The solution Navicon Pharma BI is perfectly integrated with Azure cloud that allows to build a full stroke of collecting, preparation and data analysis. Besides, the cloud of Microsoft includes not only traditional BI tools, but also services of advanced analytics like tools for processing of Big Data and AI. All this opens additional opportunities for forecasting and adoption of solutions, important for business, for our clients, comments Maxim Ozerov, the project director FMCG&Pharma in Navicon company

stimulates with Microsoft creation of the partner solutions giving competitive advantages to the companies of the different industries. Now the analytical solution for pharmaceutical companies can be deployed, using cloud and hybrid scenarios that will give the chance to clients of Navicon to take all advantage of a cloud consumption pattern of IT, for example, availability of the solution worldwide from any device. Placement of Navicon Pharma BI in Azure cloud – extremely important step for integrator: it will simplify the companies an exit to international markets,

2017: Representation of analytical BI model for pharmaceutics

The system integrator and Navicon developer provided own analytical model created taking into account specific needs of the pharmaceutical producers working in Russia in May, 2017. The ready industry BI model is collected on the basis of "best practices" from large-scale drafts of the business analysis in the pharmaceutical industry: in it the standardized mechanisms of calculations and approaches to consolidation of data from different sources are implemented.

The analytical solution Navicon is created especially for the pharmaceutical companies working with a great number of distributors and pharmacy chains. Thanks to instruments of cleaning and data storage of the Microsoft SQL Server 2016, the BI model allows to consolidate automatically information arriving from own and external sources of the company.

In addition, the built-in instruments of processing and data visualization of Power BI allow to create qualitative interactive reports in several clicks and to share them with colleagues. Thus, identical analytical calculations are available to all staff of the company, and heads of pharmproizvodstvo have an opportunity to make the weighed management decisions on the basis of constantly updated data set.

Development of industry BI model became the response to growth of the Russian pharmaceutical production almost for 24% for 2016 which was followed by enlargement of the first twenty of players of the market. Expansion of pharmaceutical companies, increase in investment volume into new productions and distribution channels demanded from producers of more effective distribution and constant control of financial flows of the organizations and also rapid response to dynamics in the companies and in the market.

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