Starschema Inc. is a global data services consultancy based in

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with additional offices in

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and

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History

Founded in 2006 in

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, Starschema initially worked for the European market. By the early 2010s, the company counted a number of

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companies among its clients, including

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and

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. In 2016, the

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awarded Starschema the Grand Prix for Innovation in IT, and the company opened its US headquarters in the following year after a $5m investment by the Central European venture capital fund PortfoLion. Despite the

COVID-19 pandemic The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...

, Starschema posted a revenue of $14.2m for the 2020 fiscal year. On 14 January 2022,

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announced an agreement to acquire Starschema for , subject to regulatory approvals from the Government of

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. The acquisition was finalized on 6 April 2022.

Services

Starschema's customer base has in recent years shifted towards a greater emphasis on the healthcare and life sciences portfolio. Alongside large multinational corporations, Starschema also serves a range of

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, such as the UN's

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. The company's global network of partners includes

Amazon Web Services Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Amazon that provides Software as a service, on-demand cloud computing computing platform, platforms and Application programming interface, APIs to individuals, companies, and gover ...

, Snowflake Inc. and

Tableau Software Tableau Software, LLC is an American interactive data visualization software company focused on business intelligence. It was founded in 2003 in Mountain View, California, and is currently headquartered in Seattle, Washington. In 2019, the com ...

. The company's main practice areas are *

data science Data science is an interdisciplinary academic field that uses statistics, scientific computing, scientific methods, processing, scientific visualization, algorithms and systems to extract or extrapolate knowledge from potentially noisy, stru ...

, AI and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of study in artificial intelligence concerned with the development and study of Computational statistics, statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalise to unseen data, and thus perform Task ( ...

, * strategic consulting, * data engineering, e.g.

data warehousing In computing, a data warehouse (DW or DWH), also known as an enterprise data warehouse (EDW), is a system used for Business intelligence, reporting and data analysis and is a core component of business intelligence. Data warehouses are central Re ...

and

data lake A data lake is a system or data repository, repository of data stored in its natural/raw format, usually object binary large object, blobs or files. A data lake is usually a single store of data including raw copies of source system data, sensor ...

s, and *

data visualization Data and information visualization (data viz/vis or info viz/vis) is the practice of designing and creating Graphics, graphic or visual Representation (arts), representations of a large amount of complex quantitative and qualitative data and i ...

Awards and recognition

The

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ranked Starschema among the 1,000 fastest growing companies in Europe in 2019, and the company was listed as one of the fifty fastest-growing technology companies in Central Europe by

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. In 2018, Aon Hewitt ranked Starschema as one of the best places to work in Hungary. Starschema's work in

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the de ...

has been widely recognized, including the company's cooperation with

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on malaria surveillance in

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and

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. During the

, Starschema partnered with Snowflake Inc. to provide a comprehensive COVID-19 data set through Snowflake's Data Exchange.{{Cite web, title=Starschema Brings Single Source of Truth for COVID-19 Incidence Data to Snowflake Data Exchange, url=https://www.snowflake.com/news/starschema-brings-single-source-of-truth-for-covid-19-incidence-data-to-snowflake-data-exchange/, access-date=June 25, 2021, website=Snowflake, language=en-US

References

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