Why OpenHEXA for data engineering?

July 7, 2025

Transforming  outdated systems into solid data foundations: discover how OpenHEXA delivers on modern data engineering needs.

The need for reliable datasets

As a data engineer in public health, you face challenges that generic data platforms rarely solve. You work with fragmented systems — some decades old — that lack modern APIs and consistent data standards. Extracting data can be slow, unreliable, and requires constant workarounds.

Even after you get the data, it’s often messy and inconsistent. Maintaining reliable, standardized datasets demands ongoing cleansing, validation, and governance—work that is difficult to sustain when you also operate with limited budgets, small teams, and infrastructure that struggles to deliver timely insights.

OpenHEXA: the solution for data engineers

OpenHEXA is built for this reality. It offers ready-made extraction, loading, and transformation pipelines designed for the most common public health data sources—systems like DHIS2, logistics, pharmacy, health records and laboratory platforms, world population datasets, climate data and many others. These templates let you deploy and schedule integration workflows quickly without building everything from scratch. And if you need something more tailored, you have full flexibility to adapt and extend these pipelines with your own scripts and logic using a complete SDK and CLI. This means you can integrate any data source, apply custom transformations, and automate complex workflows without limits.

But OpenHEXA is more than data processing. With OpenHEXA, unstructured and structured data isn’t just transferred—it’s consolidated, standardized, and securely stored in a flexible lakehouse environment that scales with your needs. This helps you maintain and access consistent, reliable datasets that your teams can trust and share.

Being open-source and deployable on-premises or in the cloud, OpenHEXA gives you full control over your infrastructure. With OpenHEXA, you’re equipped not just to move data efficiently but to build a foundation of high-quality information—turning your engineering work into decisions and actions that improve public health.

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Use cases

Transforming  outdated systems into solid data foundations: discover how OpenHEXA delivers on modern data engineering needs.

LifeNet International operates across six African countries, supporting more than 400 faith-based health facilities with clinical training, management support, and health system strengthening programs. As LifeNet expanded its footprint, managing data across multiple platforms, countries, and program streams became increasingly complex. A unified Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E) system was needed to consolidate these diverse data flows and ensure reliable, high-quality reporting.

# 🚀 **Introducing Template Pipelines in OpenHEXA: Simplify Your Workflow and Accelerate Collaboration!**

We are incredibly excited to share an innovative addition to OpenHEXA: **Template Pipelines**. Designed with efficiency and collaboration in mind, this feature streamlines the way teams create, manage, and reuse data pipelines.

To support outbreak response efforts, OpenHEXA serves as the primary data integration platform for the Centre d’Opération des Urgences de Santé Publique (COUSP) in the DRC.

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