Allergan develops, manufactures, and markets branded products across medical aesthetics, eye care, central nervous system, and gastroenterology, with 40 manufacturing facilities and 27 research centers worldwide. In 2019 its North American and Global SAP systems held more than 17 terabytes of data. Retrieval performance was poor and physical storage was becoming difficult. Allergan needed to reduce database volumes, limit growth in and between the two systems, keep total cost in check, and keep all historic SAP information available, while meeting complex compliance requirements, aligning with IT best practice, training the team, and putting a lifecycle management plan in place.
Database size fell by 10.31 TB: 6.11 TB in the North American NA1 system and 4.2 TB in the Global PA1 system. Growth rate and overall storage cost dropped, system performance became consistent, and proactive lifecycle management reduced legal liability.