Case Study: Alexion Pharmaceuticals achieves rapid growth and operational efficiency with Veeva Systems' Development Cloud

Alexion Supports Rapid Growth with Veeva Development Cloud

Alexion, a global biopharmaceutical company focused on rare diseases, faced rapid expansion that exposed siloed systems and manual processes across Regulatory, Clinical, and Quality teams. Submission content and approvals were scattered, registrations were tracked by spreadsheets across 80 markets, and an aging document system limited the company’s ability to scale amid a fourfold increase in clinical trials.

To address this, Alexion deployed the Veeva Development Cloud—using Vault RIM, Vault Clinical Operations, and Vault QualityDocs—to centralize regulatory data, bring CROs into a unified clinical operations environment, and modernize quality document management. The result was improved cross‑team collaboration, real‑time visibility into trial status and document workflows, faster decision making, higher adoption and compliance, and a scalable foundation to support ongoing growth.

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Jim Cronin

Director of R&D Development IT