Leading Healthcare Player Moves to Cloud-Based Artwork Management Solution, Reduces Errors by Near 100 Percent
Country or Region: India Industry: Healthcare
Customer Profile Established in 1978, Biocon is India’s premier biotechnology company. Headquartered in Bangalore Biocon has evolved from an enzyme company to a fully integrated biopharmaceutical enterprise, focused on healthcare.
Business Situation The company wanted a scalable architecture that would automate the core process of managing all artwork to meet the reporting and auditing requirements
Solution Biocon implemented AppPoint’s Artwork Management solution, which is based on the Windows Azure™ platform.
“Working across geographically dispersed teams, getting approvals manually was a time consuming process. With the new application in the cloud, we see significant reduction in cycle time.”
Mr. Radhakrishnan Menon, Chief Information Officer, Biocon
Biocon, India’s largest listed biotechnology firm was facing some of the challenging aspects in biopharmaceutical domain. One of the company’s core processes, artwork management, was being handled manually making it a time-consuming and error prone process. There was an immediate need to automate the process as the artworks errors could sometimes lead to drug product re-calls from the market place. After careful evaluation, Biocon decided to adopt a business application infrastructure from AppPoint Software Solutions which offered a unified model driven approach to address immediate and strategic needs. Based Developed on the Windows Azure platform the solution manages the entire artwork lifecycle including document management, controlled workflows, real-time access to information, and automated enforcement of policies as well as collaborative portal accessible anywhere and anytime. As a result, predictability and control over processes has increased efficiency by over 50 percent and also reduced errors by near 100 percent.