Case Study: Amylin's Strategic Rightsourcing Strategy

To keep pace with a changing business model and rapidly changing technology demands, Amylin Pharmaceuticals had to dramatically change the way it delivered IT infrastructure services. This required consolidating and virtualizing its data center and implementing a new sourcing approach to service delivery that blended traditional deployment with a range of cloud services, including computing, storage, software development, and software-as-a-service (SaaS). As part of this transformation, Amylin used an extensive stack-ranking exercise to determine which IT infrastructure services to deliver internally versus fulfilling through strategic rightsourcing. Driving toward this optimal service alignment of internally and externally delivered IT infrastructure services has helped Amylin reduce IT costs by 15%, increase agility by reducing its infrastructure and data center footprint, and sustain investment in core competencies that provide a competitive advantage to the business.