Case Study
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Enterprise data, queried and visualized directly by the people who need it. Engineered alongside the client's own development team.
A global life sciences company wanted its people to query and visualize enterprise data themselves, without a per-seat licence for every employee who occasionally needs to look at a number. MindPal engineers contributed to two of the applications built to make that possible, working inside the client's own engineering organization alongside their in-house developers.
Who they are
Our client is a global life sciences company with operations in nearly every market it sells into, and engineering and analytics staff spread across them. The work wasn't scoped to a single department. It sat inside a company-wide self-service analytics programme, serving users across research, regulatory, and quality functions.
The brief was never “build us a dashboard.” It was: give people direct access to their own data, in the tools they already work in.
The problem
Commercial platforms solve this problem, at a per-seat cost that becomes hard to defend at organization-wide scale. Licensing a full BI suite for every employee who occasionally needs to look at data wasn't a workable line item.
Underneath the licensing question sat a slower, more expensive one: data preparation. Getting a dataset into a state where it could actually be looked at consumed analyst time that should have gone to interpreting it.
What we worked on
Direct querying · open-source charting · several views on one screen
MindPal contributed as part of the client's engineering team
Extends the spreadsheet analysis workflow the organization already runs on, with enterprise data available in the sheet
Already in the spreadsheet
MindPal engineers contributed to two distinct internal applications. They are technically independent of one another, with different codebases and different purposes:
How we worked
These applications belong to the client. They run their own development teams, set their own direction, and own the roadmap and the code. MindPal engineers worked as part of that effort, contributing to design and implementation over a multi-year engagement, on the client's brief and to the client's standards.
That's a different engagement model from a fixed-scope integrator drop-in, and it's the one we're built for: long-horizon work inside an existing engineering organization, where continuity of people matters more than a signed statement of work.
We work as a long-term product and engineering partner. Embedded, continuous, and accountable to your roadmap rather than our own. Let's talk about what you're building.
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