Microsoft Philippines names ASPEN Pharma as its latest partner in a MOA signing represented by Joel Garcia, Microsoft Philippines Business Group Lead for Tools and Server; Jojo Casaje, Aspen Philippines Sales Manager; and Celso Avena, Aspen Philippines Commercial Services Manager.
November 2012, Manila, Philippines — Microsoft Philippines recently joined forces with global pharmaceutical company, Aspen Pharma as its newest partner that will utilize SQL Server 2012, a cloud-ready information platform that builds quick and secure solutions, to help analyze and manage critical business data to increase productivity.
As the largest pharmaceutical manufacturing company in Australia and South Africa with more than 800 products, Aspen Pharma operates in more than 100 countries with 18 manufacturing facilities worldwide. In the Philippines, Aspen Pharma has similar intensive data and business operation requirements such as ensuring integrity and timely consolidation of data, efficient sales crediting, and automated computation of incentives and generation of accurate reports.
“Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012 enabled our company to create a single data warehouse that efficiently manages our reports across our business groups,” said Celso Avena, Commercial Services Manager of Aspen Philippines.
With SQL Server 2012, ASPEN Pharma is able to create a single data warehouse and use existing licenses of Excel to allow users to quickly analyse and report on company information. It also enabled the firm to utilize SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence and PowerView implementation to publish highly intuitive reports to users for day to day analysis.
Microsoft Philippines takes pride in naming ASPEN Pharma as one of the newest additions to its roster of esteemed partners. Joel Garcia, Microsoft Philippine Business Lead for Server and Tools shared, “We at Microsoft are committed to delivering the best and most affordable products and solutions across all types of industries to help businesses achieve their goals. Aspen Pharma has a very dynamic business process and Microsoft’s SQL Server 2012 will be able to help transform their business process and help make it more efficient.”
SQL Server is a cloud-ready information platform that builds quick and secure solutions. Some of SQL Server 2012's features include AlwaysOn SQL Server Failover Cluster Instances and Availability Groups for improving database availability and Contained Databases for moving multiple databases. SQL Server 2012 is the most secure database platforms, can process over 14 million email messages in 24 hours, and can reduce downtime by over 20% by migrating an SAP ERP environment to SQL server.
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