How does moving to the cloud help achieve your goals for growth, innovation, and competitiveness, and what are some of the main outcomes of transitioning to the cloud that you might want to anticipate and plan for?
Predictive maintenance ensures the uptime, productivity, and performance of your infrastructure
For many life sciences companies, evolving legacy systems from condition based to predictive, enabled with data insights from IoT, is an important use case for cloud technologies. Your analysis of data coming from connected devices, and the IoT, allows for improved communications with your contract manufacturers, 3rd Party Logistics providers or in-house manufacturing team. This connectivity allows for you to anticipate and avoid poor decisions on R&D and product movements throughout the enterprise. That intelligence enables you to keep product innovation to occur quickly and/or fulfilment of orders to be as efficient as possible.
People, trading partners and market visibility enables complete, contextual intelligence to help you meet company objectives
In life sciences, the ability to compete as a viable, relevant business depends largely on your ability to understand and control product research and supply chain. This learning offers an avenue to intelligence that overcomes the practical and conceptual boundaries of individuals, who are easily misled by their selective awareness of events and trends. Instead of acquiring the tools and building your own intelligence systems, you can take advantage of the resources available in the cloud today. When you connect your industrial assets or the complex products to the IoT, storing and processing the data in the cloud, they become available to cloud intelligence that can combine with data from your entire operation.
At that point, your insight is not limited to your individual employees. You can surround it with contextual information about R&D, material planning, training and the supply chain. If you want to cast an even wider net, you can also assess customer behaviors, market trends, and competitive threats, and correlate those findings with your R&D and product management.
Collaborative innovation opens additional revenue streams and increases team efficiency
Predictive maintenance is a great achievement that your internal and external customers will appreciate. No need to stop there. Cloud-enabled, intelligence-driven collaboration with your customers can help you understand them much better, strengthen the relationships with them, and maintain your share of their attention and spending. It can also result in product enhancements that you might eventually launch to your entire market.
Within your organization, you can rely on the performance and scalability of cloud resources to enable scientists, partners and rest of the workforce collaborate from anywhere. They can use cloud-based virtual reality modeling to work together on new formulas and products. You save the expense and disruption of business travel by your skilled innovators, and you enable them to collaborate always, not just on special occasions.
Service provider expertise lets you make more strategic use of your own IT department
If your IT department is fully occupied with the day-to-day activities of keeping applications, networks, and infrastructures running and secure, you can move most of these routines to the cloud and let your service provider handle them. Instead, you can use your in-house IT resources to perform custom development and other high-value tasks that help you move forward. Working with a strong cloud service provider, your IT team can efficiently learn the skills of development, provisioning, resource management, and security in the cloud, especially if you maintain a hybrid environment that requires integrations between on-premise and cloud computing. You can draw on your service provider’s specializations, for instance, to enable advanced intelligence, collect and process large volumes of data, or take the complexity out of working in the IoT.
Worldwide resources and networks let you grow at your own pace while being compliant
Leading cloud providers maintain advanced cloud infrastructures in global networks of data centers. They will have a data center close to your headquarters, and, when your company reaches across the globe, they can support you wherever you go. That means you can grow in the cloud at your preferred pace. If you want to take a measured, low-risk approach, you could move just one workload into the cloud – product engineering, for example – to start with, and test the new infrastructure’s performance, reliability, and analytical capabilities. You continue your cloud migration at the right time.
When you’re ready to increase the momentum, you can take advantage of cloud-based ERP and CRM resources with multi-language and multicurrency features to reach customers and markets anywhere. If you’re operating production and distribution facilities in several countries and regions, the cloud offers an efficient way to make corporate systems and information available to them and connect their processes to the entire organization.
Transform your life sciences business in the cloud
Starting now, you can act on the cloud opportunities that offer the highest benefits. Together, Tridea Partners technology and expertise, Microsoft Dynamics 365, and the analytics resources available on the Microsoft Azure cloud can make life sciences business growth in the cloud practical, fast, and affordable. Before, during, and following your move to the cloud, we help you optimize processes, increase efficiencies, and reduce costs. We offer proven, practical solutions and approaches within an affordable subscription model that eliminates distractions and lets you focus on results.
At Tridea, we help our life science customers digitally transform their businesses and improve the value realization of their business application investments. We mitigate the inherent risks associated with implementing, upgrading and replacing legacy ERP systems. We lead our life science customers with best-practice consulting services we have refined over thousands of engagements. We take care of our customers and aspire to keep them for life.
To learn more about how Tridea can help you get the most out of your Microsoft solutions, visit or contact us at info@trideapartners.com
