Undisclosed Biotech Company

Research

Background

Our client wanted to move their business critical data from a 3rd party platform to a new service and create a repository as a single source of truth. Aside from the technical challenges, the project needed to be conducted in a short timeframe with no margin for missed deadlines. 

Services 

  • Industry sector: Research
  • Services: Technology Consultancy, Data Strategy, ETL, Scraping techniques 

Our contribution

Project Summary

Our client, a listed company, is transforming the lives of people with chronic diseases by developing genome editing treatments. Their team of researchers use a 3rd party platform to store critical data but wanted to move to a system with more appropriate functionality. Due to limitations of the platform, the entire list of thousands of records and meta data could not be downloaded successfully. There was a commercial deadline looming and the client approached Elemental to lead this project. 

We are experienced at working to tight deadlines and employing novel methods to challenging problems. To minimise the risk we conducted 2 PoC’s to ensure our scraping and extraction methods could produce the data accurately. The success of these PoC’s allowed us to move to extraction of the complete data records. In addition, we provided recommendations to the client’s in house development team on how to create a single source of truth so that no matter which platform was needed in the future this proprietary data was always readily accessible to the company.