8/6/2019 GilletteCaseStudy

1/1Success by design

Case study

Gillette

ProleThe Gillette Company is the world leader in male

grooming, a category that includes blades, razors

and shaving preparations. Gillette also holdsthe 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.

Further infowww.gillette.com

ChallengeThe Global Architecture Group within Gillette identied 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 specic technologies and applications.

SolutionThe 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. Inventory of Business Applications

2. Inventory of technologies (technology stack)3. Life-cycle planning (Application & Technologies)

4. Corporate IT standards

Gillette are now looking into reusing this modeling work to form a web-

based 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.

ResultsCorporate Modeler provides the level of modeling exibility required by the archi-

tecture group. The group leverage this exibility to design and implement interlinked,redundancy-free models of the enterprise that aid understanding, communication

and collaboration. Gillette are now exploring the benets 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.

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 life-

cycle for applications and hardware across the enterprise.

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