CUSTOMER STORY // ALTUM
Accelerating Life-Saving Research With Data
Altum harnesses Qlik to consolidate research data, cut costs, and increase funding.
60%
reduction in reporting time
By deploying Qlik’s self-service tools, Altum eliminated coding bottlenecks, giving users immediate access to data.
40%
ecosystem cost savings
Bringing fragmented systems into a centralized Qlik platform created vast efficiencies that directly fund more research.
200+
grants managed at scale
Nonprofits can now evaluate their entire research portfolio, ensuring that resources go to the most impactful science.
CHALLENGE
Overcoming a fragmented research ecosystem
Altum helps nonprofit biomedical funding organizations manage grants, but the research ecosystem is highly fragmented. Tracking a grant’s 20-year journey to a medical breakthrough meant digging through files or tracking researchers across global institutions manually.
Small, family-run nonprofits typically lack the technical backbone to consolidate structured and unstructured data, making it incredibly difficult to translate complex scientific progress into digestible public reporting to drive community engagement and donor funding.
APPROACH
Centralizing data with Qlik Cloud
Having worked with Qlik for almost 20 years, Altum developed Altum Analytics, migrating to Qlik Cloud to securely consolidate disparate medical data into one centralized location. The platform provides intuitive visual interfaces and hourly data reloads, replacing manual coding processes with self-service tools.
Qlik Cloud’s scalable infrastructure also enables Altum to embrace advanced AI capabilities, including Qlik Answers, Qlik Predict, and Qlik Automate, delivering robust, trusted data governance to non-technical users.
RESULTS
Cutting costs to fund more life-saving science
Consolidating into a single data ecosystem with Qlik has provided a 40% cost saving, allowing Altum to pass funds directly back to nonprofits for more research. Qlik also reduced reporting time by 60%, providing immediate, trusted answers.
Nonprofits can now assess outputs across hundreds of grants simultaneously to predict where to allocate funds effectively. By linking early investments to modern breakthroughs, Altum delivers hope to struggling families, proving that data can directly drive positive humanitarian outcomes.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU
Data consolidation drives community impact
Altum’s journey demonstrates how eliminating data silos can transform organizational potential. By moving to Qlik Cloud, Altum dramatically lowered costs and increased operational speed, providing non-technical end users with the self-service tools needed to interpret massive datasets.
For businesses managing disparate information, this proves that centralizing analytics in a scalable, AI-ready environment not only boosts efficiency and trust, but can tangibly empower users to achieve highly impactful, mission-driven outcomes.
Giving a person hope is the biggest KPI you can have. It’s the human element derived from data, and it comes from working with Qlik.
