Life Technologies Selects Verizon Business for Global Networking, IT Solution

Carlsbad, California-based Life Technologies has chosen Verizon's (News - Alert) integrated managed IT and networking solution in an attempt to consolidate its various regional communications networks and software platforms, and improve its application performance.

 

Under a three-year agreement, Verizon Business (News - Alert) will build and manage a new IP-based network connecting more than 100 Life Technologies locations, as well as implement Akamai Technologies' services to help boost performance.

 

A provider of biotechnology research tools, Life Technologies' e-commerce sites collectively logged 13 million visitors in 2009.

 

The company believes that the enhanced communications infrastructure will enable it to operate more efficiently while providing the essential platform to extend the deployment of a centralized, companywide enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to offices in the Asia-Pacific region.

 

The ERP system, which will replace eight older software platforms, is designed to support customer-relationship management, sales and revenue reporting, and company-critical manufacturing and distribution applications.

 

Life Technologies, which had $3.3 billion in sales in fiscal 2009, was able to speed up website application performance by as much as eight times in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region by implementing Akamai's (News - Alert) Dynamic Site Accelerator services and global content-delivery platform, enabling it to help eliminate the need to build additional infrastructure capacity.

 

Joe Beery, the company's senior vice president and chief information officer, said Life Technologies turned to Verizon Business as the company wants to quickly develop new products, enhance customer satisfaction and meet the critical requirements of the scientific community.

 

Verizon Business has long been offering managed and IT services for the health care and life sciences industries.  The company's global IP infrastructure and data centers provide a solid foundation coupled with a range of solutions designed to help transform patient care delivery, enhance access to care and better manage costs.