Business challenge To deliver essential medicines to patients on time, Daiichi Sankyo Europe performs sophisticated analytics and planning. To manufacture and ship vital medicines to patients across Europe, Daiichi Sankyo Europe performs detailed analyses and planning activities. As data volumes grew, report generation slowed — impacting business agility and threatening delivery capabilities. Transformation By accelerating its data analytics, the company is lifting controllers’ productivity — helping the company achieve a full ROI on the solution within just nine months and solving their delivery challenges. “IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration is helping us uncover fresh insight into our business faster than ever before.” —Vyacheslav Klushyn, Senior Manager of Business Intelligence, Daiichi Sankyo Europe Business benefits: ROI within just 9 months as the solution lifts controllers’ productivity 5.6x faster OLAP queries in controlling department unlock rapid insight Over 78% cut in database size reduces fees for infrastructure hosting partner Daiichi Sankyo Europe Administers a healthy dose of analytics to accelerate reporting Solution components: SAP Business Warehouse SAP ERP IBM® DB2® with BLU Acceleration® IBM Spectrum Protect™ Daiichi Sankyo is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with operations in more than 20 countries. Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH manages the company’s European presence, spanning operations in 12 countries and employing 2,000 people. Share this Link Client Name Daiichi Sankyo Europe Company Background Daiichi Sankyo is a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Japan, with operations in more than 20 countries. Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH manages the company’s European presence, spanning operations in 12 countries and employing 2,000 people. Business challenge To deliver essential medicines to patients on time, Daiichi Sankyo Europe performs sophisticated analytics and planning. As data volumes grew, report generation slowed—impacting business agility. The benefit OLAP queries are 5.6 times faster, boosting controllers’ productivity and enabling some staff to be reallocated to different divisions—contributing to a full ROI on the solution in just nine months. Pull Quote “IBM DB2 with BLU Acceleration is helping us uncover fresh insight into our business faster than ever before.” —Vyacheslav Klushyn, Senior Manager of Business Intelligence, Daiichi Sankyo Europe Solution components SAP Business Warehouse SAP ERP IBM® DB2® with BLU Acceleration® IBM Spectrum Protect™ Case study Link http://www-03.ibm.com/software/businesscasestudies/us/en/gicss67sap?synkey=H683271J47053S70 © 2017 IBM Corporation