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Architecting a Seamless Data Migration Strategy for a Leading Swiss Pharmaceutical Company

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Overview.

The leader in pharmaceutical industry wanted to design and implement a comprehensive data migration plan for converting data from STAR, Athena, and SharePoint sites to the Veeva Vault system. The customer had various data sources, including inventory and cross-reference of source and target data elements, schema, metadata, and self-describing files. Coforge spearheaded a seamless data migration initiative by leveraging our expert approach ensured meticulous mapping of diverse data sources.

Challenges

The customer wanted all the migration information, including the process of data extraction, transformation, and loading, necessary tools for execution, and a strategy for data quality assurance and control etc., to be assured of the success of this project. A total of 8M records containing 3M documents. The other essential records to be migrated include products, applications, Licenses, Submissions, Submission packages, Regulatory Activities, XEVMPD/IDMP, clinical studies and Non-clinical Studies.

Solution

Coforge provided the customer with a holistic approach to cybersecurity operations, which included people, process, and technology to address their requirements. The Coforge solution approach is described below:

  • Define validation rules, calculations, algorithms, and version schemes to ensure data integrity, correctness, and completeness.
  • Provide an overview of the migration approach and strategy to the customer's Business Lead and Integrated Project Team.
  • Conduct a quality assessment of data to identify issues in the existing information that may need to be addressed during the migration process.
  • Minimize data loss and business disruption.
  • Map existing data to the appropriate fields and structures in Veeva RIM Vault, ensuring that all relevant information is properly captured and stored.
  • Validate the migrated data and perform assurance checks to ensure that the data is properly formatted and ready for use in Veeva RIM Vault.

The Impact

  • Improved regulatory requirements and compliance met via managed product information and other related data inside Veeva RIM.
  • The increased efficiency resulted from improvements in the quality of data validation and the automation of workflow processes.
  • Product information is easily accessible and shared by different teams and departments through a centralized, easily accessible location.
  • Better collaboration and communication between teams make it easy to share data and documents with external partners securely.
  • Scalable solution to suit as the business grows, enabling the customer to manage more products, regions, and languages.
  • Access and manage product information from anywhere through mobile features.

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