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BUSINESS LEAD PROJECTS: Pharmaceutical Industry

Pharmaceutical #1: Making Business Process More Efficient

Business Lead

Business Need:

  • Company wanted to cut $4 billion in costs and improve employee productivity

  • Accelerate the drug development process by enabling better information sharing and coordination

  • Provide better visibility and more accurate time-to-market predictions for new drugs going to market

  • Improve business efficiency by automating and consolidating processes, applications, and systems into one shared platform

Use Case:

  • IT-led project to create a common platform for the Application Service Delivery (ASD) project, to share infrastructure across departments

  • SOA Organization and strategy developed and ASD reference architecture developed with guidance from BEA

  • Self-service environment for business units to develop their own portals, using the same common infrastructure and backend, built on WebLogic Portal

Results: SOA Value Delivered

  • Improve visibility into product line resulting in business agility to take pharmaceutical products market

  • Cost savings and reduced headcount, driving towards $4 billion in savings

  • Better use of core architecture, improved data integration and management, more reusability

  • Achieving 99.999% uptime on a stable platform

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