Extending Enterprise Search at AstraZeneca

1. Extending Enterprise Search at AstraZeneca
Steven Woodward
20th October 2015 | Enterprise Search Europe 20th October 2015

2. Our vision is to create competitive advantage through enterprise leadership by championing cutting-
edge technologies that enhance our core business.
We deliver on this through three pillars:
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CTO Office: Leading through Information Technology
 By identifying key strategic areas for
future success and establishing
Competency Centres to develop and
embed them into enterprise
capabilities, we will ensure ongoing
relevance and world-class technology
leadership to provide AZIT with the
competitive advantage
 Providing Enterprise Leadership to
understand the pain points of the
business and to ensure that proposed
technology changes are unified and
governed to maximize business value
as AZIT develop corporate systems,
workflows and technology choices
 Rapid, innovative teams that test new
technologies and accelerate platforms
in Technology Labs to build internal
expertise and hands-on experience of
potential game-changing technologies
whilst focusing on immediate business
problems

3. Today the CTO Office has presence in San Francisco, Cambridge and Shanghai. Geographical presence in
these key technology clusters gives an early view of emerging technologies, companies and start-ups in
relevant areas, whilst helping us establish relationships with key stakeholders and investors in these
innovation hubs.
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CTO Office: Strategically Placed - Global Reach
 San Francisco is today’s Innovation
Capital of the World and our tech lab will
facilitate links with innovative research
start-ups, venture capitalists and global
technology leaders. With access to world
class talent, highly entrepreneurial culture
and numerous technological
advancements, the San Francisco office
will provide new opportunities at the
forefront of healthcare digital innovation.
 Cambridge is one of the most dynamic
technology and business clusters in the
world and our tech lab is integrated into
this unique innovation ecosystem—we
are surrounded by 19 science parks with
over 1,500 high-tech companies. From life
sciences, engineering and computer
science, Cambridge also boasts world
class academic institutions at the bleeding
edge of scientific research.
 Shanghai is emerging as a top city for tech
innovation internationally and is
predicted to become the global
technology centre within four years—this
ecosystem dominated recently in
scientific research & development,
nanotechnology and robotics. Our
technology lab will tap into the increasing
momentum to establish relationships with
local technology leaders.

4. The new CTO Office established this year and has made significant progress in uplifting technology
innovation. Our process has three phases:
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CTO Office: Catalysing New IT Skills & Innovation
 Identify and ACCESS the most critical
capabilities for our business, based on
technology scouting and our
knowledge of external trends with AZ
business owners
 Pilot and ACCELERATE these learnings
by hiring the best into Competency
Centres, and work on immediate
business problems within our
Technology Labs
 Once established, ADOPTED by the
appropriate delivery team within the
broader

5. Search: Competency Centre to Centre of Excellence

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Search: User Experience - Continuous Improvement

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Search: Increased Functionality via Micro Applications

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Search: Advanced video transcription and playback
• Automatic transcription
of videos via
asynchronous API calls
• Sentence level entity
extraction of terms
allows extraction of key
elements previously un-
searchable
• Inline video playback,
starting right where you
want it to

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Search: Complimented by Mobile Experience
 Find people based on all their information such as name,
location, job title, biography and skills.
 Call or email the person you’ve found at the click of the
mouse or a touch of the screen.
 See where a person fits in AstraZeneca’s organisation, who
their manager is and if they have any direct reports.
 Geo-location aware to make it easier to meet colleagues by
sharing your current location on the map

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Search: MBaaS extensions for Search based Apps
Approvals: A mobile app that can action outstanding approvals by integrating data from multiple legacy
systems. Future integrations are handled at the connector layer leveraging a defined data model for
field mappings.
 Approve directly from the app to further reduce the need to access
multiple systems.
 Filter by most urgent to minimise escalations
 Approval/Rejection reasons submitted in app to inform later workflow
decisions

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Search: Its all about the team
You don’t get a
world-class garden
By throwing out
seeds and hoping
they grow

12. For questions, demos and more details on use cases,
please contact us
CTO@astrazeneca.com
@Sinequa

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