Case Study: Shire Pharmaceuticals Group achieves unified IT and accelerated innovation with SAP HANA

How Has Expert Enterprise Support Enabled Innovation That Will Help Improve the Lives of Millions Affected by Rare Disease

Shire Pharmaceutical Group, a global biotechnology company focused on rare diseases, grew rapidly through mergers and acquisitions, nearly doubling revenue and quadrupling staff. That expansion left a fragmented IT landscape of SAP and non‑SAP systems and multiple databases on Oracle, creating integration, performance, risk, collaboration, and skills‑development challenges.

Working with SAP Enterprise Support—including the Enterprise Support Academy, advisory team, ExpertGuided services, continuous quality checks, and a migration to the SAP HANA database—Shire consolidated its systems and modernized its infrastructure. The result was a simplified, unified IT foundation that reduced risk and downtime, accelerated time to value, improved performance by roughly 10–15%, and enabled faster, lower‑disruption innovation to better serve people affected by rare diseases.

Shire Pharmaceuticals Group

Jagadish Yagnala

SAP Technology Lead and Application Support