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Akorn Pharmaceutical Success Story

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Mark Dalton
Mark Dalton

Akron Pharmaceuticals, outsourced their change management to a third party managed services provider (MSP), to manage their JD Edwards EnterpriseOne change management process. Manual change management processes are intrinsically error prone, and Akorn experienced an incident where code was incorrectly deployed to their production environment. AutoDeploy was able to fully automate the code build and deploy process in the highly regulated pharmaceutical industry. AutoDeploy created a model that enables ease of use, full transparency of what code is being built and deployed by environment, and an flexible audit process for the pharmaceutical industry standards.

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AutoDeploy sales@autodeploy.net information@autodeploy.net address 501 Samuels Avenue Suite 430 Fort Worth, TX 76102 AutoDeploy SUCCESS STORY Akorn Pharmaceuticals ¡°AutoDeploy¡¯s software is like a person who is the very best at understanding how the change management process in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne affects every touch point in the business. IT, our cloud provider, our business users, and our management team. The software takes every best practice and embeds those best practices, and expertise, into code. The affect of implementing the AutoDeploy suite has been a real win for Akorn. ¡±Steve Davis Applications Director of IT Challenge Akron Pharmaceuticals, outsourced their change management to a third party managed services provider (MSP), to manage their JD Edwards EnterpriseOne change management process. Manual change management processes are intrinsically error prone, and Akorn experienced an incident where code was incorrectly deployed to their production environment. Because Akorn Pharmaceuticals operates in a highly regulated industry they have strict internal controls for internal compliance of the change management process, and external SOX auditing requirements. The introduction of code to Production (PD) created a situation where the applications manager was required to file an deviation of process, establish a resolution plan for future Production deploys, and create an extra step to the change management process requiring sign off from the application manager confirming the code to be deployed is accurate. The creation of new steps in the change lifecycle reduced Akorn¡¯s ability to proactively deliver change. Akorn, realized that automating the change management process in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne could be a powerful way to reduce risk, ensure compliance and maintain governance Solution AutoDeploy¡¯s suite of software was selected by Akorn to fully automate the change management lifecycle for EnterpriseOne. AutoDeploy was able to be installed in three hours and fully tested across all of the Akorn environments. AutoDeploy was able to ensure that all change activity follows the established standards and compliance requirements for Akorn, and provide a real time audit trail for internal and external audit reporting. Akorn was able to increase their ability to deliver valuable changes to their end users, embed the audit process with the delivered AutoDeploy functionality, and lower their cost of managing the change management process eliminating a third party managed services provider. CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY
AutoDeploy sales@autodeploy.net information@autodeploy.net address 501 Samuels Avenue Suite 430 Fort Worth, TX 76102 ¡°AutoDeploy has helped our organization align our business users and IT in ways that I never could have imagined. Organizationally we have been forced to be more rigorous in understanding and managing a process. And that is something that most prospective customers might not see, because I didn¡¯t see it till we bought the AutoDeploy suite. ¡±Steve Davis Applications Director of IT Results Akorn is committed to delivering high quality, safe, and effective products for their customers. Utilizing AutoDeploy software, Akorn is able to ensure their commitment to quality is met across their organizational value stream for their Oracle EnterpriseOne installation. Outsourced change management process increased risk and internal controls required a fully automated solution, and a metrics driven, DevOps approach to validate change. AutoDeploy was able to improve the quality of delivered change across the software development lifecycle, increase the rate and pace of change to meet critical business requirements, and ensure Akorn¡¯s governance risk and compliance processes were CFR 21 11 section 1 through 5 compliant. SUCCESS STORY Akorn Pharmaceuticals CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY AutoDeploy

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Akorn Pharmaceutical Success Story

  • 1. AutoDeploy sales@autodeploy.net information@autodeploy.net address 501 Samuels Avenue Suite 430 Fort Worth, TX 76102 AutoDeploy SUCCESS STORY Akorn Pharmaceuticals ¡°AutoDeploy¡¯s software is like a person who is the very best at understanding how the change management process in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne affects every touch point in the business. IT, our cloud provider, our business users, and our management team. The software takes every best practice and embeds those best practices, and expertise, into code. The affect of implementing the AutoDeploy suite has been a real win for Akorn. ¡±Steve Davis Applications Director of IT Challenge Akron Pharmaceuticals, outsourced their change management to a third party managed services provider (MSP), to manage their JD Edwards EnterpriseOne change management process. Manual change management processes are intrinsically error prone, and Akorn experienced an incident where code was incorrectly deployed to their production environment. Because Akorn Pharmaceuticals operates in a highly regulated industry they have strict internal controls for internal compliance of the change management process, and external SOX auditing requirements. The introduction of code to Production (PD) created a situation where the applications manager was required to file an deviation of process, establish a resolution plan for future Production deploys, and create an extra step to the change management process requiring sign off from the application manager confirming the code to be deployed is accurate. The creation of new steps in the change lifecycle reduced Akorn¡¯s ability to proactively deliver change. Akorn, realized that automating the change management process in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne could be a powerful way to reduce risk, ensure compliance and maintain governance Solution AutoDeploy¡¯s suite of software was selected by Akorn to fully automate the change management lifecycle for EnterpriseOne. AutoDeploy was able to be installed in three hours and fully tested across all of the Akorn environments. AutoDeploy was able to ensure that all change activity follows the established standards and compliance requirements for Akorn, and provide a real time audit trail for internal and external audit reporting. Akorn was able to increase their ability to deliver valuable changes to their end users, embed the audit process with the delivered AutoDeploy functionality, and lower their cost of managing the change management process eliminating a third party managed services provider. CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY
  • 2. AutoDeploy sales@autodeploy.net information@autodeploy.net address 501 Samuels Avenue Suite 430 Fort Worth, TX 76102 ¡°AutoDeploy has helped our organization align our business users and IT in ways that I never could have imagined. Organizationally we have been forced to be more rigorous in understanding and managing a process. And that is something that most prospective customers might not see, because I didn¡¯t see it till we bought the AutoDeploy suite. ¡±Steve Davis Applications Director of IT Results Akorn is committed to delivering high quality, safe, and effective products for their customers. Utilizing AutoDeploy software, Akorn is able to ensure their commitment to quality is met across their organizational value stream for their Oracle EnterpriseOne installation. Outsourced change management process increased risk and internal controls required a fully automated solution, and a metrics driven, DevOps approach to validate change. AutoDeploy was able to improve the quality of delivered change across the software development lifecycle, increase the rate and pace of change to meet critical business requirements, and ensure Akorn¡¯s governance risk and compliance processes were CFR 21 11 section 1 through 5 compliant. SUCCESS STORY Akorn Pharmaceuticals CUSTOMER SUCCESS STORY AutoDeploy