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- Pfizer Thrives in Challenging Marketplace With Versatile Performance Management Solution
- Like most Big Pharma companies, Pfizer has encountered tougher market conditions in recent years, fighting to hold market share against a tide of generic drugs while at the same time racing to develop new generations of safe, effective pharmaceutical products. For Pfizer, the challenging environment is forcing it to adapt...
- Tags: Performance, Pfizer Inc., Performance Management, Financial Accounting, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Finance
- Case studies 2008-08-01
- Generic Lipitor and Caduet under your 2011 Christmas tree
- What this means is that by Christmas of 2011 if I live long enough I could replace drugs which now cost $60/month in co-pays with a single generic pill costing as little as $10/month. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., Lipitor, Statins, Simvastatin, Healthcare, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Time to out drug test reviewers?
- Pfizer is suing the New England Journal of Medicine, aiming to learn the names of anonymous reviewers who conducted peer reviews on its pain relief drug Celebrex. Donald Kennedy, outgoing editor of Science Magazine right, says this is a direct threat to all science. Anonymity...
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., Fact, Anonymity, Reviewers, Business Ethics, Leadership, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-10
- SOA's role in master data management explained
- SOA has a critical role to play in the development of Master Data Management, or MDM. At Pfizer, SOA decoupled data from applications I hadn't heard much to date on how these two enterprise-changing forces can work together. But Martin Brodbeck, executive director for...
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., SOA, Data Management, MDM, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2007-11-08
- Today's Debate: What model will close the health literacy gap?
- Pfizer has put out a study today with a very scary number. $236 billion. (Picture from Craig Lefebvre's Social Marketing blog.) That's the high end of their estimate for what a lack of health literacy costs the U.S. every year. The lower, more-often reported number, is $106...
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, E-health, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Pfizer NOAH Speeds Health Solutions to Animals
- Pfizer Animal Health wanted to speed the delivery of health solutions for animals. But its decentralized infrastructure, which made application development costly and time-consuming, did not support this goal. So, the division created NOAH (Next-generation Operations and Application Hosting), a centralized application development environment based on the Microsoft .NET Framework...
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., Health Care, Pfizer NOAH, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Software Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Software/Web Development
- Case studies 2006-11-09
- Improve Quality of Service and Efficiency of J2EE Applications
- Speaker: Martin Brodbeck, Director, Global Applications Architecture, Pfizer. Do you want to increase your software and hardware infrastructure utilization and also find a way to address increasing IT management expenses? If yes, then watch this webcast and you will learn from a leading pharmaceutical company, Pfizer, how to develop a...
- Tags: QoS, Cassatt Corp., Webcast, Pfizer Inc., J2EE Application, J2Ee, Digital Media, Strategy, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Management
- Webcasts 2006-02-27
- Pfizer fights fake Viagra with RFID
- Pfizer fights fake Viagra with RFIDEmbarassmentIf I had to take a pill such as Viagra, I would be embaressed to admit it to anyone, other than my wife. With RFID, anyone who can recognize where an RFID tag is coming from can tell if you use Viagra.This could be a...
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., RFID, Viagra, bottle, pill
- Discussion threads 2006-01-06
- Executive Dashboard Based on Service-Oriented Architecture
- The Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals PGP discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets healthcare products that improve the quality of life for people around the world by helping them enjoy longer, healthier and more productive lives. Well-choreographed interaction among so many groups within PGP has been an important factor in the clinical and...
- Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Pfizer Inc., Dashboard, SOA, Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance
- Case studies 2006-01-01
- Something about Microsoft, or Europe demands it share
- Something about Microsoft, or Europe demands it shareWhat the EU is askingWhat the EU is asking is the equivalent of Pfizer to release all intellectual property so that a generic lab can mass produce the same drugs.Why would Pfizer want to do that.After all hasnt Pfizer spent billions to develop...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., API, Pfizer Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-09-07
- Study: Big Apple, California give least bang for buck
- Study: Big Apple, California give least bang for buckIf you will noticethat the 7 top WORST cities are in California.Furthermore... Cali is not even on the top 10 list of favorable places to live.And let's not forget, traffic congestion, air pollution, noise pollution, crime. Where I live out on the...
- Tags: New London, Pfizer Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-05-23
- Pfizer's SOA strategy
- Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals, one of the world's largest drug companies (and a division of Pfizer, Inc.), has begun establishingits own SOA and rolling out new process integration projects. Oneproject that PGP is now discussing is a single sign-on application that spans multiple isolated back-end systems to accelerate project approvals on...
- Tags: PGP Corp., Pfizer Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-03-11
- Pfizer sues Internet sites selling Lipitor
- Pfizer sues Internet sites selling LipitorIf these companies use spam to advertisethen that will make it better.
- Tags: Lipitor, Pfizer Inc., Internet-site
- Discussion threads 2004-09-03
- Pfizer Gets Smart About Infrastructure
- Pfizer's Global Pharmaceuticals Group found their systems were running at an average 10% utilization and experiencing peak loads only 25% of the time leaving many servers and licensed software underutilized. In 2001 PGP started an ongoing effort to streamline costs within its IT organization and address the issues around infrastructure...
- Tags: Cassatt Corp., Pfizer Inc., Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- Case studies
- Minimizing Risk and Ensuring Continuity of Operations With Help From Symantec Consulting Services' Business Continuity Management Practice
- Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer delivers drugs that help people live longer, happier, and healthier lives. To ensure that medications continue to flow uninterrupted in the event of a crisis, Pfizer Singapore turned to the Symantec Consulting Services' Business Continuity Management practice for its expertise. Pfizer's challenge was to align its Business...
- Tags: Consulting Service, Symantec Corp., Pfizer Inc., Business Continuity, It Services, Security
- Case studies
- ABB Case Study: Pfizer
- The Pfizer Safety Sciences groups is located across 7 sites around the world and undertake preclinical activities vital to the development and introduction of new drug products within the Pfizer group. During a FDA inspection, spreadsheets were sited as a significant compliance concern, and improvements were required against spreadsheet validation...
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., Spreadsheet, ABB, Pfizer Safety Sciences Group, Productivity, Federal Government, Government
- Case studies
- Pfizer Centralizes IT Management, Reduces Costs With New Messaging Environment
- Pfizer, the world's largest research-based pharmaceutical company, experienced rapid growth in a few short years when it merged with two other companies. That merger provided the company with an opportunity to upgrade the messaging and network environments of all three companies, consolidating them into one centralized, standardized global system. Pfizer...
- Tags: IT Administration, Pfizer Inc., Information Technology, Messaging, Microsoft Corp., Groupware, E-mail Servers, Microsoft Windows 2000, Networking, Enterprise Software, Software, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows
- Case studies
- For Pfizer, the Prescription Is .NET
- Pfizer engineers involved in the Groton plant identified some specific technology gaps. Although shop floor machines and enterprise-wide systems were fairly automated, the highly creative tasks of designing API processes and planning their production were not. In addition, chemists and engineers were spending too much time hunting down information and...
- Tags: Pfizer Inc., Microsoft Corp., .Net, Team Management, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Development Tools, Application Servers, Middleware, Databases, Servers, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware
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- Better Collaboration and Deeper Context Improves Pfizer Research Decision Making
- The Pfizer Global Research and Development unit has 12,000 scientists in seven research centers working on the next generation of pharmaceutical products. Pfizer scientists need to review existing research in a database with millions of records of previous experiments. In a joint effort, experts from Pfizer, Microsoft, and Infosys developed...
- Tags: Collaboration, Pfizer Inc., Scientist, Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., Pfizer Global Research And Development Unit, Research & Development, Microsoft Office, Storage, Databases, Business Operations, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Case studies
- Better Collaboration and Deeper Context Improve Research Decision Making
- Pfizer needed a way for its research biologists worldwide to sort through large volumes of data, analyze that data quickly, and share the results of their research with other scientists in order to speed up the process of developing new drugs. Pfizer's solution to this challenge came in the form...
- Tags: Collaboration, Pfizer Inc., Decision-making, Microsoft Corp., Web Technology, Tools & Techniques, Management
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- Pfizer discovers, develops, produces and markets prescription medicines for humans and animals. Co. has two segments: Pharmaceutical, which develops and produces products that treat cardiovascular...
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