Case Study: Life Technologies achieves reduced development costs and faster global software delivery with CollabNet VersionOne

Life Technologies - Customer Case Study

Life Technologies, a global leader in life-sciences tools and diagnostics, faced rising development costs and the need to support globally distributed firmware and UI teams. Disconnected project, requirements and test systems left SCM staff spending most of their time on infrastructure, impeded traceability from requirements to tests, and complicated an offshore development mandate in Singapore.

The company adopted the hosted CollabNet ALM platform alongside Agile practices (Scrum/XP) and tool integrations, piloted the rollout, and encouraged gradual adoption. The result: about $430,000 in first-year operational savings, SCM teams able to provide higher‑value services, faster collaboration and better traceability across sites, more than 200 users on 180 projects after one year (growing to ~900 users), and improved release and issue management between global teams.

Life Technologies

Mike Pallas

Software Development Manager