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access point to global data
increase in users accessing production data
greater data availability
EMEA
Healthcare & Life Science
Enterprise
500+
One of the core missions of my team is to make the data mesh happen while still maintaining everything that we need to maintain in terms of policies and data privacy constraints. Starburst is making my life a lot easier by creating the first mesh platform for business metrics, that we can start operating within.
Alexander Seeholzer
Director, Data Services
access point to global data
increase in users accessing production data
greater data availability
SOPHiA GENETICS is advancing and democratizing data-driven medicine through a pioneering global network of healthcare institutions. Working with more than 780 hospitals and research institutions in over 70 countries, SOPHiA GENETICS enables its customers to outsource their bioinformatics operations by providing them with both a cloud-based, Software-as-a-Service analytics platform and unprecedented insights from the global network. This way, SOPHiA GENETICS’ customers can focus on what they do best — advancing research, treatment decisions, and drug development efforts.
Over the years, SOPHiA GENETICS has come to rely on a mix of different backend storage systems. Cataloging data and collecting business metrics were becoming increasingly difficult, since application data is distributed globally to comply with various regional and national data security and compliance requirements. Ultimately, the data services team wanted to be able to catalog its data and allow creating business insights in a secure, controllable, and demonstrably compliant way.
Starburst Enterprise, the fully supported, production-tested distribution of open source Trino, improves performance while making it easy to deploy, connect, and manage your cluster. It includes additional connectors for commercial database systems along with query optimization, cluster management tools, and enhanced security – an especially important feature to SOPHiA GENETICS.
“Starburst is creating the infrastructure to realize our business metrics demands, while tightly controlling access to source systems,” Alexander Seeholzer, Director, Data Services at SOPHiA GENETICS explains, “and it offers enterprise-grade extensions, auditability, and more at an affordable price. After our evaluation, we realized it was the most logical choice.”
Today, the data SOPHiA GENETICS manages resides in data warehouses within specific regions or countries. SOPHiA GENETICS deploys Starburst via Kubernetes and operates numerous instances, including in-country or in-region clusters that ensure compliance with local data regulations.
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SOPHiA GENETICS sees various strategic and operational advantages of the solution.
10-15X more data available
By unlocking siloed data, SOPHiA GENETICS has 10-15X more data available that is leveraged to improve their product offering. Additionally, the company expanded the number of users able to query data from 3 to 30, a 900% increase in data access.
Centralized data access
Data activities that had been dispersed are now accessed through a single point of secure access, making them more controllable and observable.
Compliance
With Starburst, it’s easier for the data services team to demonstrate to auditors, the QA department, and others that they are adhering to policies and regulations.
Time-to-insight
Business analysts can explore data faster because the datasets, columns, and rows they’re permitted to access have already been established, and they don’t need to appeal to data services. This cuts down on the turnaround time and, ultimately, accelerates time-to-insight.
Accelerating the data mesh initiative
As SOPHiA GENETICS advances its mission, Starburst Enterprise will continue to be an important piece of its infrastructure. In addition to the benefits outlined above, the platform is advancing one of the larger strategic goals of the data services team – moving toward the increasingly popular data mesh architecture now being adopted by many forward-thinking enterprises.
More resources: Alexander Seeholzer’s Voyager profile
EMEA
Healthcare & Life Science
Enterprise
500+
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