Case Study: Shire achieves accelerated M&A, streamlined data governance and cost savings with OpenText

High-growth biotech accelerates M&A, streamlines operations and avoids costs with Micro Focus® data discovery and archiving tools

Shire, a fast‑growing biotech focused on rare diseases (about 5,500 employees and $6.4B revenue in 2015), faced mounting IT and data-management challenges after a series of multi‑billion‑dollar acquisitions. Integrating and reviewing systems and content from acquired companies was slow and costly, forcing Shire to keep legacy systems running to meet regulatory and legal‑hold requirements and requiring large amounts of manual document review.

By deploying Micro Focus Structured Data Manager and ControlPoint—backed by an internal process for categorizing applications and data and plans to add Records Manager—Shire created an enterprise data‑governance capability that sped discovery and reduced costs. The company reviewed and rationalized 193 systems, retired 49 systems (saving $1.5M/year), archived 24 systems, automated appraisal of 800,000 R&D documents (saving over $1M), minimized disruption, and improved cooperation between records and IT teams.

Shire

Morgan King

Records and Information Management Lead