Jumping Rivers and Achieve Intelligence launch Coadun to bring enterprise R to pharma
Pharma has been moving from SAS to open-source R for years. Most organisations know their statistical computing environment (SCE) needs to change. Far fewer have a plan for rebuilding it across the whole business, in a GxP-compliant way, without disrupting the teams who rely on it today.
That’s the problem Coadun was set up to solve.
What Coadun is
Coadun is a joint venture between Jumping Rivers and Achieve Intelligence. We bring R and Python expertise, Posit infrastructure and ten years of helping data science teams take work from experimentation into production. Achieve Intelligence brings an enterprise architecture methodology and a long track record of deploying GxP-compliant systems across the pharmaceutical data value chain.
Neither of us delivers Coadun alone. The work needs both.
Why the combination matters
When an SCE modernisation stalls, the technology is rarely the reason. It’s usually stakeholder resistance, ownership split across functions, or change control that slows every step in a regulated environment. Achieve Intelligence’s methodology is built for that side of the work. We bring the R and Posit depth to deliver the technical side to the same standard.
Esther Gillespie, our CEO, and James McDermott, managing director of Achieve Intelligence, sat down to talk about what it takes to move a pharma organisation from SAS to enterprise R: the technical side, the human side, and why most transitions stall.
Who Coadun is for
Coadun is aimed at three kinds of organisation:
- Pharma teams part-way through a move to R that has stalled, or split into several separate R deployments
- Larger organisations with R environments siloed by function, who need one governed SCE across the business
- Mid-size companies weighing the cost of licensed software against a properly implemented open-source alternative
Meet us at PHUSE EU Connect
James McDermott from Achieve Intelligence will be joining us on stand 25 at PHUSE EU Connect 2026 in Glasgow, 15 to 18 November. If you’re planning changes to your SCE, or a move to R has stalled, come and talk to us both.
Getting started
Every Coadun engagement starts with an introductory session. It covers your current SCE, what a migration would involve, and how the engagement would fit your organisation’s requirements.
To find out more, visit coadun.net or email hello@coadun.net.
