BlueCat Networks Case Studies Global Deployment of IPAM at Top Tier Pharmaceutical Company

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	Global Deployment of IPAM at Top Tier Pharmaceutical Company BlueCat Networks

Global Deployment of IPAM at Top Tier Pharmaceutical Company

BlueCat Networks

Applicable Industries	Pharmaceuticals
Challenge	This large pharmaceutical company was facing the following challenges: - Solidify the network as the infrastructure across which their intellectual property is developed, quality-assured and delivered to market while enhancing global network security, speed and agility. - Better manage the process of merging acquired companies into the main corporate network. - Reduce business risk by implementing role-based access, full change tracking and the replacement of fragmented, spreadsheet-based management of IPAM data. - Increase the ROI on network-associated IT investments, such as virtualization, cloud and SDN. Read More
About Customer	Large global pharmaceutical enterprise, with over 150,000 employees, dispersed across over 50 locations on 6 continents. Read More
Customer Name	Undisclosed Read More
Solution	The customer deployed BlueCat across the corporate network as the global IPAM repository, controlling both Microsoft and BlueCat DNS and DHCP. In order to manage project risks, BlueCat used a phased roll-out and subsequent environment upgrades. Read More Log in to view content
Data Collected	Device Status, Network Coverage, Network ID, Number Of Connected Devices, Security and access Read More Log in to view content
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Applicable Industries

Pharmaceuticals

Challenge

This large pharmaceutical company was facing the following challenges: - Solidify the network as the infrastructure across which their intellectual property is developed, quality-assured and delivered to market while enhancing global network security, speed and agility. - Better manage the process of merging acquired companies into the main corporate network. - Reduce business risk by implementing role-based access, full change tracking and the replacement of fragmented, spreadsheet-based management of IPAM data. - Increase the ROI on network-associated IT investments, such as virtualization, cloud and SDN.

About Customer

Large global pharmaceutical enterprise, with over 150,000 employees, dispersed across over 50 locations on 6 continents.

Customer Name

Undisclosed

Solution

The customer deployed BlueCat across the corporate network as the global IPAM repository, controlling both Microsoft and BlueCat DNS and DHCP. In order to manage project risks, BlueCat used a phased roll-out and subsequent environment upgrades.

Data Collected

Device Status, Network Coverage, Network ID, Number Of Connected Devices, Security and access

Impact #1	[Efficiency Improvement - Deployment] This customer can now accommodate acquisitions without rearchitecting their environment.
Impact #2	[Process Optimization - Real Time Monitoring] The customer is able to track and control devices that connect to the corporate network by location and user, and determine what applications those users should have access.
Impact #3	[Data Management - Data Security] The customer is now able to securly connect the IPAM repository with other network related applications using BlueCat's APIs.

Impact #1

[Efficiency Improvement - Deployment]
This customer can now accommodate acquisitions without rearchitecting their environment.

Impact #2

[Process Optimization - Real Time Monitoring]
The customer is able to track and control devices that connect to the corporate network by location and user, and determine what applications those users should have access.

Impact #3

[Data Management - Data Security]
The customer is now able to securly connect the IPAM repository with other network related applications using BlueCat's APIs.

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Global Deployment of IPAM at Top Tier Pharmaceutical Company

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