Reimagining Ad Hoc Analytics with AI: Axtria's Perspective from Real Commercial Use Cases in Life Sciences
Your analytics teams spend 60-80% of their time on data preparation while urgent business requests pile up. Ad hoc requests that should take hours stretch into days. When your capacity is overwhelmed, strategic analysis gets delayed.
Transform your life sciences analytics from reactive reporting to proactive, real-time decision-making. Discover how AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI deliver auditable insights at scale, turning ad hoc analytics into a competitive advantage.
Key Business Impact
| 2-3× | Productivity gains |
| 40-50% | Reduced manual effort |
| Days → Hours | Time to insight |
Three Pillars of Transformation
"AI, Generative AI, and Agentic AI working together within governed frameworks "
- AI-powered automated insights: Domain-specific AI agents automatically detect patterns, anomalies, and drivers across complex datasets, putting findings into context using commercial terms to accelerate decision-making.
- GenAI conversational access: Domain-trained LLMs democratize analytics by allowing business users to query data conversationally, getting instant, contextualized insights without waiting for analyst support.
- Agentic AI orchestration: Autonomous systems sense market signals and trigger actions proactively. Multi-agent frameworks create a resilient, scalable analytics ecosystem that acts without human prompts.
AI-Enabled Analytics in Action
"Real commercial use cases delivering measurable impact across life sciences functions"
- Sales Analytics
Connect HCPs, patients, products, and territories through natural-language Q&A. Deliver instant answers to recurring sales questions with 50–60% reduction in analyst intervention.
- Marketing Analytics
Conversational AI translates business questions into technical queries for rapid campaign ROI assessment and real-time channel optimization—scaling across brands without added headcount.
- Forecasting Analytics
AI-generated forecast decks summarize drivers, variances, and scenarios from live data. Updates in hours instead of days with 30–40% reduction in manual effort.
- Patient Analytics
AI-guided cohort definitions via natural language, linking claims, EMR, and registry data. Enables 70% faster cohort analyses with no-code patient segmentation.
Your Journey to Autonomous Analytics
"A three-stage maturity path from foundational data governance to autonomous, self-optimizing analytics ecosystems "
- Stage 1: Foundational
Establish data governance, semantic layers, and standardized KPI frameworks. Build the foundation for consistent, trustworthy analytics.
- Stage 2: Augmented
Deploy domain-trained AI models, natural language interfaces, and knowledge graphs. Accelerate insights while empowering business users.
- Stage 3: Autonomous
Enable multi-agent systems and event-driven workflows that proactively generate insights with minimal human intervention.
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FAQs
AI-driven ad hoc analytics delivers 2-3X productivity gains, 40-50% reduction in manual effort, and shrinks turnaround times from days to hours. Top pharmaceutical companies have reported multi-million-dollar savings through faster decision cycles and reduced dependency on large analyst teams.
The three pillars are: (1) AI-powered automated insights generation that detects patterns and anomalies across complex datasets, (2) GenAI for conversational data access allowing business users to query naturally, and (3) Agentic AI for proactive orchestration that autonomously senses market signals and triggers actions without human prompts.
Four commercial use cases demonstrate impact: Knowledge Graph Chatbots for sales analytics (50-60% reduction in analyst intervention), GenAI Query Agents for marketing analytics (scales across brands), Automated Deck Generators for forecasting (30-40% effort reduction), and Conversational Cohort Builders for patient analytics (70% faster analyses).
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