A pharmaceutical company unified data for efficiency

 

$16M

The solution is expected to yield $16 million in annual synergy savings over 5 years.

 

$50M

The Grant Thornton project team managed $50 million in budget and expenditures.

 

10,000

The solution implemented a 10,000 square foot on-premise modular Tier III, LEED Gold certified data center.

 
 

At a glance

 

Client

Multinational pharmaceutical company

 

Industry

Life sciences

 

Our role

Consolidate multiple data centers

 

Our solution

Design, build and manage migration

 
 
 

Savings from strategic consolidation

 
folder icon

Scenario

To drive efficiency and cost savings, a pharmaceutical company needed to consolidate multiple data centers.

gears icon

Approach

Grant Thornton worked with IT and third parties, managing the requirements design and budget for the consolidated solution.

graph icon

Result

The project delivered a fully qualified private hosting environment expected to deliver more than $16 million in annual synergy savings over 5 years.

 
 

Scenario

 
 

Disparate data centers

 

A multinational pharmaceutical company needed to consolidate multiple physical data centers into one data center with a private cloud environment.

 

The company wanted a partner that could lead the IT Infrastructure build-out of a new centralized facility. The build scope included the design, procurement, installation, configuration and qualification of all WAN, LAN, and SAN environments to support consolidated production loads, while virtualizing physical hardware into a private cloud environment. The migration scope included creating and managing a migration plan to shut down and consolidate two local data centers and multiple ad-hoc “data closets” at manufacturing facilities, along with physical migrations.

 
 
 

Approach

 
 

Physical and cloud consolidation

 

The Grant Thornton team coordinated with the company’s IT department to develop the requirements and design for the LAN, WAN and SAN infrastructure environment, facilitating procurement for all infrastructure assets. The team also coordinated with IT to design the private cloud infrastructure requirements.

 

The Grant Thornton team surveyed applications and servers, developing an inventory assessment, infrastructure requirements, application-to-server mapping, migration strategy, communication plan and RFPs for third-party migration resources.

 

During the migration, the team coordinated timelines with stakeholders, managing multiple migration waves, managed the overall project budget and helped to address any PO or payment issues.

 
 

How we can help you

 
 
 

 

Ready to talk? We’re ready to listen.

Request a meeting -->
 
 

Result

 
 

Unified power

 

The Grant Thornton team managed $50 million in the project budget and capital expenditures to deliver the new on-premise modular Tier III, 10,000 sq. ft. LEED Gold certified Data Center with multiple, redundant MPLS, Internet and MAN circuits.

 

The project delivered a fully qualified private hosting environment that supported production workloads from day one. The team completed infrastructure integration for the company’s global processes and standards, fulfilling a key milestone of the client’s Global Data Center strategy.

 

Now complete, the project is expected to deliver more than $16 million in annual synergy savings and cost avoidance over the next 5 years.

 
 

Related Resources

 
 
 
 

Connect with our team

 
 
 
 
Content disclaimer

This Grant Thornton Advisors LLC content provides information and comments on current issues and developments. It is not a comprehensive analysis of the subject matter covered. It is not, and should not be construed as, accounting, legal, tax, or professional advice provided by Grant Thornton Advisors LLC. All relevant facts and circumstances, including the pertinent authoritative literature, need to be considered to arrive at conclusions that comply with matters addressed in this content.

Grant Thornton Advisors LLC and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.

For additional information on topics covered in this content, contact a Grant Thornton Advisors LLC professional.

 

Ready to talk? We’re ready to listen.

 

Request a meeting and a member of our team will be in touch to see what we can do to meet your needs.

 

Want to submit an RFP? Please submit your request through our RFP submission page.

 
 
 

Our fresh thinking

 

Follow us