pfizer – Corporate case study

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robust legal data warehouse for advanced analytical
reporting
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Warehouse needed in legal division for deployment
of integrated set of transactional tools, matter
management, patent and trademark administration
and electronic billing
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Each integrated system had specific reporting
limitations, transfer and retrieve data across the
multiple system.
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Comprehensive data warehouse that combined each
system's daily transactional data can easily accessible,
flexible and manageable structure
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Legal data warehouse build using company standard tools
and leverages a corporate shared service for hosting
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Allows IT and user to develop and run complex systems and
reports that cross source system boundaries and allows
charting and drill down
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Everyday operational support and minor enhancements are
outsourced to vendor at competitive rates.
 Technology used
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Oracle- star schema with a small number of fact
tables linked to various hierarchal dimension tables
to support department, geography, patent family,
matter etc.
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Informatica- data integration solutions
ETL(extraction, transformation and load) routines
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Business objects-all reports, end-user and ad-hoc
access
 Results
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more than 41,000 active SharePoint users with 1,000
top-level.
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supports secure external collaboration sites
accessible to authorized non-Pfizer employees
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Approximately 60% of Pfizer's collaborative
workflow needs were met out of the box with
SharePoint