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Transforming the Business with Enterprise Architecture Management

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Customer Company Size
Large Corporate
Region
  • Europe
Country
  • Germany
Product
  • ARIS Platform
  • IDS Scheer Consulting
Tech Stack
  • Enterprise Architecture Management
Implementation Scale
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
  • Productivity Improvements
  • Digital Expertise
Technology Category
  • Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management
Applicable Industries
  • Pharmaceuticals
Applicable Functions
  • Business Operation
  • Product Research & Development
Use Cases
  • Process Control & Optimization
  • Predictive Quality Analytics
Services
  • System Integration
  • Software Design & Engineering Services
About The Customer
Boehringer Ingelheim is a research-driven company dedicated to researching and developing, manufacturing and marketing pharmaceuticals that improve health and quality of life. Its business areas consist of human pharmaceuticals and animal health. The company has more than 44,000 employees in 145 affiliated companies worldwide, R&D facilities at seven sites worldwide and 20 production plants in 13 countries. R&D expenditure in prescription medicines corresponds to 23.5 percent of its net sales. Headquarters are in Ingelheim, the German town, where the family-owned company was founded in 1885.
The Challenge
Boehringer Ingelheim operates in a highly competitive market, which requires significant agility to react to changing market demands and compliance with a multitude of regulatory demands. This leads to a complex set of business processes that need to be supported by a flexible and agile IT. The specific challenge was to ensure the consistency of changes across all four architectural dimensions. The company needed to introduce a state-of-the-art EA framework including a unified tool-based EA repository in order to actively manage the portfolio of enterprise standards. They also needed to define a comprehensive multi-dimensional long-term planning process to ensure that IS/IT applications and services are aligned with the business strategies.
The Solution
Boehringer Ingelheim implemented the ARIS Platform and IDS Scheer Consulting to introduce a state-of-the-art EA framework including a unified tool-based EA repository in order to actively manage the portfolio of enterprise standards. They defined a comprehensive multi-dimensional long-term planning process to ensure that IS/IT applications and services are aligned with the business strategies. They also identified opportunities for consolidation and optimization with views and methods for a holistic and systematic analysis of the IS landscape. Using ARIS, Boehringer Ingelheim has applied a state-of-the-art EA framework, including a unified tool-based repository, in order to actively manage the portfolio of enterprise standards. Boehringer Ingelheim uses ARIS to gain consistent views of the current EA, to plan for future changes and to see related analytics.
Operational Impact
  • Transparency into the end-to-end process support and the information flow between the involved applications
  • Transparency into the impact of changes (from processes to applications, and from applications or infrastructure to processes)
  • Dependency lists as checklists for projects in the design phase
  • Tool-based scenario planning to support decision process on implementation path
  • Transparency into harmonization and consolidation potential (processes, applications, infrastructure)

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