Axcan Pharma is a privately held pharmaceutical company that specializes in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases and disorders. Based in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, on the south shore of Montreal, Quebec, Axcan Pharma has administrative offices in the United States and in France and employs more than 500 people worldwide. Traditionally Axcan Pharma has followed a decentralized approach to technology management, and as a result, each of the three regions had very different computing environments. This made it difficult for employees to collaborate, and made desktop management a cumbersome and time-consuming process. Axcan Pharma decided to standardize its desktop environment on the Microsoft® Windows Vista™ operating system and the 2007 Microsoft® Office system.

Teva Neuroscience Inc. (Teva) is a subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., a multinational generic drug manufacturer based in Israel. The parent company established Teva to develop and market branded neurological products like Copaxone®, an injection for treating multiple sclerosis. With the drug’s blockbuster popularity, Teva’s Canadian division had grown rapidly needed a more complete solution to meet its increasingly complex reporting needs, and a system that made it simple to drill down into financial data for better budgeting and forecasting. Using an ACCPAC accounting system it had inherited from its U.S. sister company it made a case for deploying made a case for deploying Microsoft Dynamics™ NAV, because the Microsoft solution met all of the needs of the organization but at a fraction of the cost of Oracle.