Unlock the power of data: Transforming R&D operations with AWS

Unlock the power of your data to streamline your portfolio operations

Get extensive insights into portfolios, resources and budgets. Our solution can help drive portfolio delivery, identify operational needs, address portfolio constraints, and improve your pipeline performance.

Get a thorough view of your portfolio by rapidly ingesting and integrating your data

Integrate data from various sources and formats into our platform, regardless of your R&D environment. Our proprietary ontology maps your data model, freeing you to focus on gaining valuable insights.

Generate predictive resource and financial insights with our forecasting engine

Leverage our machine learning-powered forecasting engine to gain predictive insights into resource and financial needs, supporting both headcount and direct spend for your portfolio strategy.

Enhance design-making through GenAI-tailored visualizations

Experience immersive data visualization with GenAI. Quickly surface and dive into critical portfolio insights. Our GenAI engine can provide tailored insights, and our R&D AI chatbot can promptly answer questions.

Rapidly model portfolio scenarios to support strategic portfolio decisions

Strategic simulations: Using advanced AI and machine learning models, our platform enables scenario planning to help leaders visualize and evaluate potential scenarios and trade-offs of their R&D portfolio. By simulating different variables such as budget adjustments, timeline shifts, and resource reallocation, leaders can make more informed decisions.

Strategic collaboration: PwC and AWS

Our alliance with AWS merges PwC's deep industry experience with the latest in cloud technology, revolutionizing R&D operations for pharmaceutical companies. AWS’s robust and scalable infrastructure helps establish that our solutions are not only secure but also remain at the cutting edge of innovation. This powerful combination enables us to provide predictive insights and create immersive data experiences that are crucial for strategic decision-making and operational success in the pharmaceutical sector.

PwC’s R&D Operations Platform can quickly and easily ingest your R&D data with our flexible data model. It can also seamlessly integrate additional data sources, such as custom portfolio prioritization and strategic goal data, to meet your specific needs. Our R&D business and technology professionals can work with you to identify and standardize data aligned with your business requirements.

After configuring data and user-facing views, PwC collaboratively works with you to develop a business launch, change management, and user support strategy. This helps deliver a smooth platform launch for your wide range of end users, from R&D leaders to functional and operational teams. PwC helps both business users and the platform's technical back-end, enhancing your resources to drive business adoption of the platform.

Enhance transparency across your R&D portfolio with our platform, which provides user persona-specific views to contextualize relevant information. Aggregate and synthesize data at the desired level, allowing users to spend less time searching and scrutinizing data and more time making informed decisions.

The modular PwC R&D Operations Platform can help you meet your organization's needs, including R&D portfolio reporting, parametric-based resource and financial forecasting models and portfolio scenario models. PwC’s R&D business professionals can work with you to configure forecast models for each relevant R&D function and role so that they align with your business practices.

Extend the platform's utility to various use cases with guidance from PwC’s business and technology professionals. We work with you to collect and incorporate business user feedback to drive the platform's evolution and expansion, meeting your growing needs.

R&D Operations Platform success stories

Rapidly hire and anticipate skillsets to deliver an evolving portfolio

In ten weeks, we built and deployed a resource forecasting capability across various R&D roles. This included a thorough suite of portfolio and resource demand analytics.

Forecast and analyze demand for non-clinical functions

Over a twelve-week period, we created a tailored forecasting solution for Development, Regulatory, and Medical Affairs roles, which enabled portfolio analytics.

Major systems upgrade to refresh and maintain forecasting capabilities

In twelve weeks, we migrated and enhanced our client’s resource algorithms and enabled a new suite of resource and portfolio-level analytics.

The platform driven by PwC’s extensive R&D operations background

For over twenty years, PwC has delivered strategic, advisory and implementation services to R&D organizations, successfully enabling R&D operational planning capabilities. Our extensive experience supporting R&D operations across the R&D lifecycle allows our teams to help clients rapidly deliver solutions and generate insights through the platform, tailored to your strategic objectives and organizational needs.

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Adi Shah

Adi Shah

Principal, Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences R&D Advisory Services, PwC US

Anthony Di Stefano

Anthony Di Stefano

Principal, Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences R&D Advisory Services, PwC US

Michael Kelley

Michael Kelley

Director, Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences R&D Advisory Services, PwC US

Anupam Rath

Anupam Rath

Principal, Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences R&D Technology Services, PwC US

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