A highway to digital transformation
Scalability, optimization and standardization
The pharmaceutical manufacturer was looking to modernize its infrastructure in line with ambitious growth plans, improve collaboration and better control costs.
Orange Business has provided the pharmaceutical manufacturer with a secure, robust infrastructure.
Strategic, secure and scalable digital transformation
The multinational was seeking a trusted partner to provide it with a future-proof digital infrastructure to support its business growth trajectory.
The incumbent provider’s lack of stable service had created additional transformational challenges, including tight deadlines, CAPEX constraints, and disruption risks.
The pharmaceutical manufacturer employs over 7,000 people worldwide. It sought to replace its fragmented IT estate with a secure, centralized solution with minimum disruption.
The solution needed to allow people to collaborate more easily across the globe, while improving overall performance and productivity. At the same time, it enhances efficiencies and has better control of costs.
The pharmaceutical giant chose Orange Business as a trusted partner to map a strategic, secure and scalable fully managed transformation encompassing IT system modernization and a stabilized legacy infrastructure built on an OPEX-based model, where they no longer owned the devices on their network, enabling improved lifecycle management and centralized management.
This is all complemented by a dedicated team of specialists from Orange Business, providing ongoing support.
As well as the incumbent challenge, Orange Business needed to address the outdated WAN/LAN and the fragmented Security Service Edge (SSE), which was not centralized, hindering security, scalability and performance.
The multinational was confident that Orange Business had the integration expertise to draw up a strategy to address its operational inefficiencies, multi-vendor complexity, limited automation, fractured tool deployment and policy gaps, which increased operational overheads.
Smoothing the way to a successful transformation
Orange Business drew up an approach that would enable the pharmaceutical manufacturer to stabilize and integrate its IT estates, which had become fragmented and unwieldy, enabling it to gain centralized control.
The first step was for Orange Business to use a Walk-In and Take Over (WITO) approach, where it immediately took responsibility for managing the multinational’s existing and dispersed IT infrastructure with minimal disruption.
After assuming management, Orange Business conducted a comprehensive assessment to prepare the groundwork for the proposed modernization and digital transformation.
This approach enables enterprises to manage complexity by providing a single partner and service level agreement (SLA) that covers the entire infrastructure, rather than dealing with multiple vendors or regional management teams.
Future-proofed modernization
After stabilizing the legacy environment and addressing vulnerabilities, Orange Business implemented automated network changes to minimize manual efforts and streamline security operations.
The Pharmaceutical manufacturer was upgraded to a next-generation architecture with SD-WAN, SSE and compute enhancements to support scalability and convergence. Additionally, it offers agility and significant cost efficiencies.
The points of presence (PoPs) are hosted within the Orange Evolution platform[JH1] . This provides flexible, on-demand cloud and network services. Orange Business also implemented remote access and Web filtering.
Improved overall performance and security were achieved through a centralized SSE, traffic optimization, and unified VPN management, enhancing security and improving efficiencies.
A modernized, future-proofed infrastructure in record time
Orange Business initially transitioned over 40 sites, together with over 7,000 users, in just four weeks, meeting the pharmaceutical manufacturer’s tight deadlines and demand for minimal disruption.
The high-performance, scalable, and security-driven network has improved overall service availability for the pharmaceutical manufacturer, strengthened its security posture, and supported future digital initiatives. The proactive partnership has also already reduced resolution times and significantly improved productivity.
The project in figures
42
Sites transitioned
7000
users in four weeks
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Haier Smart Home Co Ltd, headquartered in Qingdao, China, develops, manufactures, and sells household electrical appliances and provides integrated Smart home appliances. It has over 100,000 employees worldwide. Its brands include Candy, Aqua, and GE Appliances.