Healthcare & life sciences · Snowflake

Sanofi Accelerates the Analysis of Real-World Clinical Data With Snowpark

Public case study · not a Metric Oak engagement

improvement in performance vs. previous managed Spark solution: 50%
patient records per cohort, processed in four minutes on average: 100M

What happened

The story in brief

A global pharmaceutical company analyses very large real-world clinical datasets under strict compliance. Replacing a managed Spark service with Snowflake and Snowpark improved performance and lowered total cost of ownership while keeping governance in place.

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Frequently asked questions

What results did Sanofi report?

Sanofi reported 50% improvement in performance vs. previous managed Spark solution; 100M patient records per cohort, processed in four minutes on average, according to its customer story published by Snowflake.

Which platform and technologies did Sanofi use?

Sanofi used Snowflake, including Apache Spark, Snowpark.

How do these results compare with other healthcare & life sciences programs?

See our healthcare & life sciences benchmark for median cost reductions and speed-ups across published results in the industry.

Source

Customer story published by Snowflake: Sanofi Accelerates the Analysis of Real-World Clinical Data With Snowpark (opens snowflake.com in a new tab) on snowflake.com. Figures as published, retrieved 27 October 2026. The summary above is Metric Oak's own. This is not a Metric Oak engagement.

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