COTS Integration – M&A
Client was being sold by parent company and then became in-play to be acquired by a very large multinational company. Computer domain had to change and internal infrastructure systems had to be replicated. For a major retail petroleum company completed migrating 122 stores from an AWS-based accounting system to a private cloud hosting center. Completed
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Pharmaceutical purchased a business unit from another company in Europe and Japan. Objective was to integrate onto a common IT platform and use common business applications. For a pharmaceutical, developed and launched migration process associated with an acquisition in Europe and Japan covering 95 sites – ~4,000 staff and several hundred applications. This involved site
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Client was using on-premises Microsoft Dynamics that had been heavily customized and was three years out of support. ServiceNow Customer Service Management (CSM) was selected to replace this system with the expectation it would be fully converted in less than a year. For a major retail petroleum company implemented ServiceNow CSM for their customer and
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An international B2B insurance company had an expensive disaster recovery plan. They had essentially cloned their primary U.S.-based data center to Amsterdam. Their plan was to smoke test logon to systems (~ more than 200) to demonstrate a successful execution of business continuity. This was expensive, since the Amsterdam data center sat idle about 11
Read MoreData Center Consolidation and Site Mitigation
A client in the pharmaceutical field had acquired business unit from another pharmaceutical located in Europe and Japan. After several starts with multiple consulting firms they selected IT technical consultant, PM Kinetics. This began the successful integration. Program consisted of two primary workstreams: Data Center Consolidation and Business Unit Site Consolidation. Program Management – Technology
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A pharmaceutical has acquired a piece of business from another pharmaceutical, which is a fairly typical scenario in the pharma M&A landscape. What was not typical is that after 16 months of planning and multiple program managers, they had little to show for the integration of the newly acquired business. Time was running out to
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When your business is located in an area with a single network provider it may seem like there are few to no options for eliminating single points of failure and expanding your data center – the exact problem our pharmaceutical client found themselves needing to address. Because their current data center didn’t have the capacity
Read MoreProject Management Process and Tools
A client in the pharmaceutical field had a few pressing project management problems that were slowing productivity within their R&D group. The delays were negatively affecting their post-marketing support while also making everyone’s jobs harder than necessary. They needed to know… How could they integrate seven human health lines tools and processes into one seamless
Read MoreOracle FAH and General Ledger
After a number of international acquisitions, our client in the financial business had multiple general ledger platforms, as well as home-grown software from their start-up days for calculating daily accruals on earnings and risk exposure. Both of these were creating serious financial reporting headaches. On top of this, their financial reporting and data analytics were
Read MoreNetwork Design and Implementation
When you’re a $12.7 billion manufacturer and distributor of building products, pulp, and paper with more than 47,000 employees working from 400 facilities, your IT network is going to need careful planning and governance, and probably a good amount of upkeep. Our client was in such a situation: They had more than 27 different divisions,
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