The Company Develops And Manufactures Generic And Speciality Formulations, With Research Teams Running Molecular Modelling, Trial Data Analysis And Stability Simulations. Compute Demand Arrives In Intense Bursts When A Programme Reaches A Milestone And Falls Away Almost Entirely Between Them.
Company Profile
Problem Statement
As Research Workloads Moved To Cloud For Elasticity, The Company Encountered Several Challenges: With Each Research Team Provisioning Independently, Nobody Reconciled What Was Running Against What Any Programme Actually Needed.
Clusters Provisioned For Milestones Continued Running Long After Analysis Finished.
Spend Could Not Be Traced To Any Research Programme Or Therapeutic Area.
Finance Received Bills That Bore No Relationship To Approved Programme Budgets.
Each Research Group Provisioned Compute Directly When A Programme Required It, Sized Generously To Avoid Delaying Analysis. Environments Were Rarely Decommissioned Because Nobody Was Certain Whether A Colleague Still Needed Them. Storage Accumulated Continuously, With Datasets From Completed Studies Retained On The Fastest Available Tier.
Research Teams Now Provision Freely Within Programme Budgets They Can See, And Environments Release Automatically When Analysis Completes. Spend Is Attributed To Programme And Therapeutic Area, So Finance Reconciles Cloud Costs Against Approved Research Budgets Rather Than Receiving A Single Figure Nobody Can Decompose Or Challenge.
Lower Compute Spend
Costs Attributed To Programme
Idle Capacity Reclaimed
Day Budget Visibility
Cost Was Attributed To Research Programmes Before Any Control Was Applied, So Teams Could See Their Own Consumption. Environments Then Received Defined Lifetimes With Automatic Release At Expiry, And Storage Moved To Tiers Matched To How Frequently Study Data Is Actually Accessed.
Clusters Provisioned For A Milestone Now Expire Automatically Once Analysis Completes Rather Than Running Until Someone Notices. Researchers Extend Lifetimes When Work Continues, So Nothing Is Lost And Nothing Runs Unattended For Months.
Cost Allocation Tagging Maps Spend To Programmes And Therapeutic Areas, Reported Through Dashboards Available To Research Leads. Environment Lifetime Policies, Automated Decommissioning And Storage Lifecycle Rules Operate Continuously, While Forecasting Tooling Projects Spend Against The Research Calendar And Approved Budgets.
Research Compute Is Bought For Speed, Then Forgotten Once The Answer Arrives. Attributing Spend To Programmes, Releasing Environments Automatically And Tiering Study Data By Access Let Scientists Provision More Freely Than Before While The Company Spent Substantially Less, Which Is What Elasticity Was Meant To Deliver.
