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Kyowa Hakko Kirin Increases Maintenance Productivity for Cloud-Based Applications
Kyowa Hakko Kirin Increases Maintenance Productivity for Cloud-Based Applications by building a Transaction Hub
Business Impact Summary
BUSINESS:
Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd. is engaged in the manufacturing and marketing of medical products and pharmaceuticals. As the parent company of the Kyowa Hakko Kirin Group, it manages the business activities in the Bio-Chemicals and Chemicals segments with the Pharmaceuticals segment as its core business. Founded in 1949, it has grown to become an organization with over $3.3 billion in revenue.
CHALLENGE:
In moving to a cloud-based, SaaS information management system, Kyowa Hakko Kirin needed to achieve a consolidated view of information across the organization including manufacturing control, sales and logistics, and cost accounting. To enable this new system which was integrated with SaaS , they needed a centralized source for both transactional and reference information.
SOLUTION:
To create a ‘single version of the truth’ for Kyowa’s core information assets, the team created an award-winning transaction hub, which consolidated transaction and reference information for reuse across the organization. Using CA ERwin’s data modeling and metadata management capabilities, they were able to create consistent standards that promoted increased reuse among systems and teams.
RESULT: The ability to reuse a consistent set of data definitions and standards increased the data quality of the information provided to the business via cloud-based applications. Not only was the resulting data of higher quality, but development and maintenance costs were significantly reduced through increased efficiency from reuse of core data assets and structures.
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