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Pfizer Boosts Efficiency by 15 Percent With Easy to Use, Shared Note-Taking Program

For the past 150 years, Pfizer has pioneered the development of some of the industry's most innovative pharmaceutical products. In 2007, Pfizer applied this "Out of the box" thinking to a pilot program designed to enhance efficiency and knowledge management across project teams, and potentially speed time-to-market for new products....

Tags: Pfizer Inc., Microsoft Corp., Document Management, Managerial Accounting, Groupware, Knowledge Management, Content Management, Microsoft Office, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Office Suites

Case studies 2009-06-23

CRM Package Boosts Tendering Capabilities for Pharmaceuticals Distributor

Pfizer Australia is a major supplier of medicines and medical products to Australia's hospitals and healthcare groups. When the company's biggest customers put major contracts up to tender, Pfizer's nine key account managers need to compile large amounts of data in order to respond competitively - pricing and discount information...

Tags: Pfizer Inc., Microsoft Corp., CRM, Pfizer Australia, Pricing, Healthcare, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Marketing Research, Marketing, Human Resources

Case studies 2009-06-01

Pfizer Inc Speeds Data Access, Ensures Security With Identity and Access Management Solution

Pfizer Inc, a global leader in the pharmaceutical industry, is taking aim at this challenge through a comprehensive, yet flexible identity management strategy designed to enable efficient, authorized access to information while helping to facilitate compliance with requirements imposed by Sarbanes-Oxley, 21. Code of Federal Regulations CFR Part 11, and...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Pfizer Inc., Access Management, Data Access, Identity, Identity Management, Authentication/Encryption, Hipaa, Regulatory Compliance, Regulations, Security, Healthcare, Government, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures

Case studies 2009-03-01

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

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, Strategy, Software Development, Software/Web Development, 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

Protein Family Alignment Annotation Tool 1.0 (Windows)

Pfaat is a Java-based protein sequence alignment application designed to facilitate the analysis, curation, and annotation of large protein sequence families. Key features of Pfaat include the ability to align collections of sequences, cluster and/or group sequences into subfamilies, analyze sequences based on a number of similarity criteria, visualize protein...

Tags: Annotation, Pfizer Inc., Tool, Sequence, Pfaat, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Programming Languages, Java, Operating Systems, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2003-02-03

Protein Family Alignment Annotation Tool 1.0 (Mac)

Pfaat is a Java-based protein sequence alignment application designed to facilitate the analysis, curation, and annotation of large protein sequence families. Key features of Pfaat include the ability to align collections of sequences, cluster and/or group sequences into subfamilies, analyze sequences based on a number of similarity criteria, visualize protein...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Annotation, Pfizer Inc., Tool, Sequence, Pfaat, Productivity, Programming Languages, Desktops, Java, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Hardware

Software downloads 2003-02-02

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., Cloud Computing, 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

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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, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Management, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Development Tools, Enterprise Software, Data Management

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