Case Study: Merck achieves 2–3× environment productivity and real-time reporting with Plutora Enterprise Release Management

Global pharmaceutical company improves productivity and reporting using Plutora´s Enterprise Release Management solution

Merck, a global pharmaceutical and life‑sciences company with about 50,000 employees in 70 countries, was managing 35–50 applications, thousands of environments and 25–50 weekly releases with a patchwork of in‑house tools, spreadsheets, whiteboards and phone calls. The fragmented, clunky processes forced extra meetings and emails, made it hard to see environment usage or conflicts, and complicated coordination between application and infrastructure release teams.

Merck implemented Plutora’s Enterprise Release Management (Release Manager and Deployment Manager) to centralize dashboards, real‑time reporting and cross‑functional collaboration across sites in India, Czech Republic, Japan, China and the US. The result: engineers can manage 2–3× more environments, fewer status emails and more efficient executive meetings, clear visibility into pipeline and risk, measurable productivity gains and financial savings, and rapid, organization‑wide adoption of the platform.

Merck

Robert Klimek Jr.

Project and Release Management