Teva Exchange project wins

“IT Award”

 

Teva’s ambitious Exchange Project, which involved migrating 36,000 users from Lotus Notes to Microsoft Outlook during 2010, has won a prestigious “IT Award” from “People and Computers” Magazine. Teva was one of five winners in the ERP category, beating out another 40 projects from other Israeli companies. More than 200 firms submitted their projects to the overall awards program.

 

​Birthday project

People and Computers hailed the Exchange project for its tremendous scope – including the number of people involved, the consolidation of 70 server farms around the world to just two – one in Israel and the other in North America – and the sheer magnitude of the data involved: over 60 terabytes of information in order to ensure that all users at Teva had access to every email they had ever sent or received.

 

Teva entered the competition in August, 2011 and was called in as a finalist to present before a panel of judges at the end of November, 2011. The award was announced on December 15, 2011.

 

The Teva Exchange Project was managed by Assaf Rozner, Senior Director of Teva Global Infrastructure. “This project is one step forward to achieving our goal of ‘one global organization,’” Rozner said in our profile of the Exchange Project that ran in the January 2011 edition of the Global IT Newsletter.

 

There is no cash prize for the award, but here you can see the proud IT team, posing with the winner’s trophy. The team (from left to right): Assaf Rozner; Hadas Segev, Head of TGI Processes, Governance and Control; Daniel Shabtay, End User Support Manager; Ronen Ashkenazy, Senior Manager, Systems and Messaging; and Roman Podlisk, Messaging and Collaboration Systems Manager