“People often assume IT is only about technology, but really it is mostly to do with people. We have developed ‘One Team’ with Atos Origin, based on having close collaboration at all levels. It is safe to assume that we will further define this cooperation on an international level.”
Vincent van Geerenstein, Organon Senior Vice President Global ICT
Since its establishment in 1923 in Oss, the Netherlands, health has been the business of Organon. Today, the bio-pharmaceutical company operates on a global basis as part of Akzo Nobel. With 14,100 staff in sixty countries, the company achieves an annual turnover in excess of 2.4 billion euro. Organon has approximately 5,000 employees in the Netherlands. The company’s international head office is partly in Oss and partly in Roseland (United States).
Business Challenges
- Support the development of a medicine by allowing a problem-free exchange of information between experts such as scientists and researchers, and also packaging experts and marketing specialists
- Harmonization of Organon’s productivity service across its entire international organization
Solution
- Upgrade of its workplace structure through Atos™ Workplace Solutions involving the migration of 125 servers to Windows 2003 and 5,000 desktops to Windows XP with Active Directory and Exchange
- The streamlining of over 16,000 workplaces and 500 servers in 70 locations in 64 countries, including the set-up of a single global support organization
- Harmonization of the global connectivity service
- Implementation of a transparent governance model with a global support organization
Benefits
- All migrations finalized quickly and completely
- A worldwide streamlined service that effectively supports the international business processes
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