Cost visibility and engineering habits across warehouses and BI tools — without blocking clinical and operations analytics.
Spend was visible only after invoices — and every team had a favorite oversized warehouse. We introduced tagging, showback, and engineering rituals so new workloads were sized before they landed on the bill.
How we approached it
Allocation & showback
Department and workload dimensions everyone agrees on; dashboards finance and engineering both trust.
Optimization sprints
Query and table tuning, tiering, and scheduling changes with measured savings per wave.
Guardrails
Budget alerts and policy hooks in the platform so surprises surface in Slack before finance does.
What we delivered
- Showback by department and workload tagging
- Query and warehouse optimization sprints
- Budget alerts and guardrails in the platform
- Playbooks engineers use before opening new capacity
Outcomes
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Predictable monthly analytics spend with fewer fire drills
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Clinical and ops teams unblocked with clear capacity rules
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Engineering playbooks reused when onboarding new use cases
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