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Overview A global pharmaceutical company frees up IT resources to focus on strategic initiatives. Driven to speed product development and patent approval while competing against other brands and lower-cost generics, pharmaceuticals are under pressure to streamline operations, increase efficiencies and improve results. A major pharmaceutical company in the United States Midwest works to address these imperatives through a commitment to supporting strategic IT initiatives internally - and using a world-class partner to deliver routine computing services. The pharmaceutical giant turned to Unisys to deliver data center outsourcing and help-desk support - including a Center of Excellence for remote access computing.

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Publisher	Unisys	File Format	HTML
Date Published	June 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Help Desk, Outsourcing, Data Center

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