Matrix vs. Spark

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Spark isn't that good.
1) A full week after to see attainment. Matrix typically was a day or two delayed
2) Access data is wrong. Very wrong. Both for Med D and commercial
3) Can't see how you are measuring up vs. other territories, district and nation.
4) No way to graph out over a longer period of time. All you see is a 13W volume snapshot
5) The deep dive tab is difficult to read especially when you add columns.

I know you asked for one of two but there were too many negatives. I'm sure there are more but these are off the cuff.
 



I'm with you. Spark is a half empty glass of water. Why no listing of the actual trialists/adopters?
Try to do a sort of access plans to see who are the top writers in the plan. Oh wait, you can't.
Someone sold AZ a lemon. Those CBD's, DSM's and PSS's who were part of this roll out should be ashamed.
 



Spark data is par for the course at AZ. “What can we do to further complicate things for those that look at data?” Hey let’s roll out a platform that makes looking at the most simple elements of data, seem difficult and cumbersome. I want to see what my numbers are, my writers and my account data and which customers are writing my competition. Matrix did that and you could look at it all in about 3 minutes. Spark is trash.
 



Some giant plan somewhere will make a decision that the company has nothing to do with and people will end up going on trips.

The more these plans consolidate, the more laughable this becomes.
 






The "spark" went out. Lousy platform for analysis and planning. As someone above posted, the access info is inaccurate and not being able to see who the top prescribers are within targeted plans is a big miss.
 



Less useful than Matrix and I'm sure it's cheaper as well. Need a little belt tightening around here since that guy got arrested in China and the company lost a fifth of its stock value
 












Isn’t it obvious what’s going on? Someone got a new position and, because of the performance management culture we have here, knew they needed to do something so that they could get a good review and the next job. They had a choice: go with what the previous person did and tweak around the edges or blow it up completely and try to make a name for themselves.

This happens all of the time. It’s why there are new selling models, territory realignments and strategy changes. Managing what the previous person did won’t get you your next job. What’s good for the company and the people comes second to personal ambition.

Nobody should be surprised. This behavior is incentivized.
 



d IEp L 0 kAie said:
Isn’t it obvious what’s going on? Someone got a new position and, because of the performance management culture we have here, knew they needed to do something so that they could get a good review and the next job. They had a choice: go with what the previous person did and tweak around the edges or blow it up completely and try to make a name for themselves.

This happens all of the time. It’s why there are new selling models, territory realignments and strategy changes. Managing what the previous person did won’t get you your next job. What’s good for the company and the people comes second to personal ambition.

Nobody should be surprised. This behavior is incentivized.
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Ding, Ding, Ding....We have a winner!
 



d IEp L 0 kAie said:
Isn’t it obvious what’s going on? Someone got a new position and, because of the performance management culture we have here, knew they needed to do something so that they could get a good review and the next job. They had a choice: go with what the previous person did and tweak around the edges or blow it up completely and try to make a name for themselves.

This happens all of the time. It’s why there are new selling models, territory realignments and strategy changes. Managing what the previous person did won’t get you your next job. What’s good for the company and the people comes second to personal ambition.

Nobody should be surprised. This behavior is incentivized.
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And it's always somebody who went to some private school on the East coast who is incentivized to degrade our data and make our job harder than it has to be.
 















I'm sure someone thought they could make their mark changing the analytics platform to Spark. I'm sorry but that has to be one of the worst decisions AZ has made in quite some time. Whoever brought this forward and the one that signed off on it needs to be fired. I know that seems harsh, but that level of incompetence cannot go with a significant effect. Maybe people will learn not to push out platforms w/o significant testing and ensuring at the very least the platform does what the one being replaced did.
 



anonymous said:
I'm sure someone thought they could make their mark changing the analytics platform to Spark. I'm sorry but that has to be one of the worst decisions AZ has made in quite some time. Whoever brought this forward and the one that signed off on it needs to be fired. I know that seems harsh, but that level of incompetence cannot go with a significant effect. Maybe people will learn not to push out platforms w/o significant testing and ensuring at the very least the platform does what the one being replaced did.
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Maybe by design? A comp plan that hurts some territories while rewarding others and now a "planning" tool that is literally, useless. Easier to manipulate numbers? Thinking out loud here but from what I have seen this company do over the last few years, nothing would surprise me. Remember the Covid jab & Mr. Dubber actually saying AZ will not be held liable for any "unseen" bad effects. They knew they were promoting poison.
 



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