AstraZeneca
RSS AstraZenecaAstraZeneca: Easy Access to Production Info With SAS
White Paper AstraZeneca has 56,000 employees across the globe - is one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies. AstraZeneca deployed SAS that provided an overall view and easy data access from the various... [19 Sep 2009]
IBM-AstraZeneca II: A New Model for Collaborative IT Outsourcing
White Paper This white paper examines the recently enacted, follow-on IT outsourcing agreement between AstraZeneca and IBM. This $1.4 billion, 7-year contract follows an original 2001 $1.7 billion, 7-year contract to provide IT... [14 Jul 2009]
Richard Williams
CIO Profile Leading a root and branch transformation of the company's IT, Richard Williams has delivered better customer connectivity and a shared services body serving AstraZeneca's operations across the globe. Since becoming... [03 Jun 2009]
AstraZeneca on the quest for perfect data
Case Study With more than 300 separate databases, each with a possible 100 variables and an offshore team preparing datasets that will be transformed into complex analytical models, pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca is reliant on... [04 Dec 2008]
Data Transfer From Microsoft Access to SAS Made Easy
White Paper To transfer data from Microsoft Access database to SAS has never been easy. Unlike Oracle database, neither SAS PROC SQL pass-through facility nor SAS/ACCESS can directly view or retrieve data from Access database tables. [30 Sep 2008]
Intel gives vPro 'one button techies' makeover
News Companies already signed up to vPro include the likes of AstraZeneca, BT, and Welsh Water. Intel has released round three of vPro, its desktop management platform, sporting new features aimed at IT teams looking after a... [22 Sep 2008]
Pharmaceutical giant strikes $550m outsourcing deal
News Fellow pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca recently signed a $1.4bn, seven-year global outsourcing deal with IBM for it to provide a single technical infrastructure for AZ, covering 60 countries. Pharmaceutical giant... [12 Sep 2008]
Tech-savvy recruited for organised crime
News According to Paul Simmonds, chief information security officer for AstraZeneca, one of the root causes of computer security issues is funding. A Soca spokesperson told silicon.com sister site ZDNet.co.uk on Friday: "We... [23 Jun 2008]
Richard Williams
CIO Profile As CIO for pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca, Richard Williams is leading a company-wide IT transformation which has already seen boosted business performance through the use of shared services along with improved... [11 Jun 2008]
AstraZeneca simplifies outsourcing rules
News Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has simplified its approach to outsourcing by reducing the number of service level agreements (SLAs) and giving more delivery responsibility to the suppliers. AstraZeneca... [19 May 2008]
AstraZeneca signs $95m outsourcing deal
News Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has struck a $95m outsourcing deal to streamline its data management. The deal will see Cognizant centralising AstraZeneca's global clinical development programmes over... [10 Mar 2008]
Unified Communications Enhances Global Collaboration for AstraZeneca
White Paper AstraZeneca develops and manufactures medicines that improve the health of patients worldwide. To streamline collaboration and reduce the cost of maintaining Private Branch Exchange (PBX) telephony infrastructure... [19 Feb 2008]
AstraZeneca brings its email bang up to date
Case Study Global pharmaceutical giant, AstraZeneca, has just completed a huge project to upgrade its ageing email system, helping the company reduce the number of servers it uses and save money. Speaking to silicon.com, Gary... [23 Jan 2008]
Taxman gets new CIO
News Singh has 20 years' experience in the commercial sector with companies such as AstraZeneca, Jaguar, NPower and Phillips Electronics and has extensive experience on large-scale IT projects. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has... [18 Oct 2007]
AstraZeneca inks $1.4bn IBM outsourcing deal
News Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has signed a $1.4bn, seven-year global outsourcing agreement with IBM. Under the deal, which renews and expands on an existing contract between the two, IBM will provide a single global... [17 Jul 2007]
