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Gillette Case Study

Gillette's Global Architecture group uses Corporate Modeler as a central repository to track applications, technologies, and lifecycles across the enterprise. The tool provides flexibility to model the enterprise architecture without redundancy. Gillette is exploring publishing models in SVG format and using an accelerator to enable web-based updates and change management.

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Gillette Case Study

Gillette's Global Architecture group uses Corporate Modeler as a central repository to track applications, technologies, and lifecycles across the enterprise. The tool provides flexibility to model the enterprise architecture without redundancy. Gillette is exploring publishing models in SVG format and using an accelerator to enable web-based updates and change management.

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Hardik Mehta
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Case study

Gillette
Gillettes Global Architecture group uses Corporate Modeler as a central repository to track and manage application and technology inventories. Corporate Modeler also supports the group in planning the lifecycle for applications and hardware across the enterprise.

Profile
The Gillette Company is the world leader in male grooming, a category that includes blades, razors and shaving preparations. Gillette also holds the number one position worldwide in selected female grooming products, such as wet shaving products and hair epilation devices. In addition, the Company is the world leader in alkaline batteries, toothbrushes and oral care appliances. Gillette manufacturing operations are conducted at 33 facilities in 15 countries, and products are distributed through wholesalers, retailers and agents in over 200 countries and territories.

Challenge
The Global Architecture Group within Gillette identified a need for a modeling solution that would enable them to: Keep track of applications and technologies used within the enterprise. Plan for the future: what is the life-cycle of specific technologies and applications.

Solution
The Architecture Group selected a server-based installation of Corporate Modeler together with Corporate Publisher and Automodeler for uploads and downloads. It was decided the primary user group would be the IT architecture team, with other IT groups referring to the web published version. The Corporate Modeler Suite was used to model: 1. 2. 3. 4. Inventory of Business Applications Inventory of technologies (technology stack) Life-cycle planning (Application & Technologies) Corporate IT standards

Further info
www.gillette.com

Gillette are now looking into reusing this modeling work to form a webbased portal using the Casewise IT Architecture Accelerator. This would enable the team to take advantage of the change management facilities within the Accelerator, as well as update information via thin-client data entry.

Results
Enterprise & IT Architecture
Corporate Modeler provides the level of modeling flexibility required by the architecture group. The group leverage this flexibility to design and implement interlinked, redundancy-free models of the enterprise that aid understanding, communication and collaboration. Gillette are now exploring the benefits offered by Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format publishing in Corporate Publisher and the IT Roadmap and thin-client data entry facilities provided by Casewise IT Architecture Accelerator.

Success by design

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