Top 5 Medical Device Manufacturing Company Analyzes and Modernizes 2 PB of Data With Data Dynamics
for one of the top 5 medical device companies in the world
Business Need
- Identify the ownership of data based on users across three company subsidiaries – energy, healthcare and airline
- Segregate healthcare data from the parent organization’s global file estate and move it to the healthcare vertical
- Re-permission files based on the vertical and users
- Conduct a privacy assessment for healthcare data
Challenges Faced
Multinational conglomerate with a global file estate comprising of data from three distinct subsidiaries resulted in:
- Data silos which restricted efficient data sharing and accessibility
- Lack of ownership of data
- Lack of data knowledge
- Lack of data visibility
- Data Sprawl and risk associated with private data
Solution Offered
Unified data management platform by Data Dynamics was implemented for:
Data Analysis:
- Removed duplicates and optimized search by adding data tags to identify the owner of the file (based on verticals)
- Re-permissioning of the files based on ownership
- Data analytics for higher governance and risk mitigation by identifying files with PII
- Enabled secure data sharing by supporting data obfuscation
Mobility:
- Metadata Scanned 10s of 100s of files and performed metadata analysis to discovers and tag healthcare data set
- Use of automated policy-driven capabilities to migrate data across healthcare vertical
Business Impact
2 PBs of healthcare data across 6 geographical location was identified and moved to the healthcare vertical for simplified and secured data access and sharing
- Enhance data understanding: Data enrichment through file metadata discovery, classification and tagging
- Gained visibility: Reduction of data storage waste by removal of duplicate files
- Actionable intelligence for 110M data files
- Secured access to patient diagnostics with automatic access control, policy-driven file re-permissioning, and file security management