Paratek adopted an unconventional approach to implementing Office365 to ramp up user adoption and increase productivity.  A new solution was delivered using SharePoint team sites for collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, and co-authoring was enabled on the libraries to facilitate a much more streamlined solution reducing effort and errors. The approach was to target senior leadership and to use it to support processes that prepared critical, highly visible and time-sensitive documents. This resulted in the leadership team understanding of the benefits of the tools which helped drive user adoption through the entire organization.

Learn how the management team understood the benefits of and leveraged the Office 365 tools to not only streamline executive presentations and the FDA submissions process, but also help drive user adoption of the tools throughout the entire organization.

Raj Padmanabhan has more than 19 years of executive leadership experience aligning IT and business priorities to improve productivity, efficiency, and bottom-line profitability. Currently, as the Vice President of IT Raj develops and executes transformative and business-focused IT strategy to support Paratek’s growth.

Jounce Therapeutics is an immunotherapy company based in Cambridge Massachusetts. In 2017, Jounce went from being privately held to being publicly traded on the NASDAQ. Shortly after this transition, the IT team was tasked with implementing the company’s first set of controls to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). The team saw this as a unique opportunity to not only address the task at hand, but also look beyond it to also improve operational processes and implement automation while taking into account security and scalability.

Learn how Jounce leveraged the Office 365 suite of applications to not only comply with SOX, but also drive process improvements, increase security, and improve customer service.

Nathan Doyle is an experienced Senior Information Technology Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the biotechnology industry. Nathan oversees Jounce’s network infrastructure both on-premises and in the cloud, manages vendor relationships, leads the team that ensures IT service delivery, and serves as a project lead on various strategic IT initiatives.

Rapidly growing companies must balance focusing on multiple strategic objectives against completing a seemingly endless list of action items. Roles and responsibilities can shift quickly, resulting in undocumented processes that rely heavily on tribal knowledge. Enter Microsoft OneNote – an intuitive system for free-form information collection.

In this session, we will share how bluebird bio successfully integrated OneNote as the core personal and meeting note solution. We will explore the benefits of OneNote integration with Office 365 using real-world use cases:

• Multi-user collaboration facilitates faster compilation and dissemination of digital resources.
• In-context task tracking drives increased accountability within teams, more productive meetings, and transparency in decision making.
• Documented processes accelerates onboarding of new team members that is essential for sustained business growth.

Emily Mancini is the Manager of Enterprise Services and Collaboration at bluebird bio. Her primary focus is on optimizing business processes and empowering collaboration for the quickly growing company. Emily leads the Office 365 strategic plan, the SharePoint Online platform, and Information Services offerings. She approaches all projects with user-centered design. Emily is a champion for intuitive solutions that are efficient, useful, and desirable to the business yielding high adoption rates

In Life Sciences organizations, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, “carve-outs,” and other business combination activities are a part of its growth. In this session, Mike Gilronan will discuss lessons learned, best practices, and some tools of the trade that you can use to plan for the inevitable.

We’ll cover the following topics:

• Analyzing your site usage
• Automating your SharePoint governance
• Accelerating your SharePoint migration activities
• Automating and standardizing site creation
• Cataloging your SharePoint sites
• Records Management considerations

Mike Gilronan is the founder of Collacrity LLC, and has been a SharePoint consultant, project manager, and “collaboration therapist” in the Boston area for over a decade, presenting at regional SharePoint Saturday and User Group events. His primary focus over the past 2 years has been intranet integration projects for large-scale pharma business combinations.