Sequenom Case Summary

SITUATION - Sequenom customers and patients today are faced with changing business models across corporate and their labs. While striving to drive customer success, Sequenom’s must drive top and bottom-line growth. To achieve this outcome, they are looking for ways to reduce their OPEX, including ways to manage their growing demand for NIPT test with faster turnaround times, maximize their current laboratories facilities and build resilient data centers that can help them move towards achieving a resourceful, fast result delivery and as “IT as a Service offering”.

COMPLICATION - Complications are due to delay in laboratory NIPT result delivery with current situation is the need for a bigger capacity in database server and faster CRM result delivery and system overload, lack of resiliency and transformation of a legacy laboratory IT equipment’s

IMPLICATION - If not attended to, complications from thousands of patients result and delivery arise from the legacy laboratory IT equipment’s which could negatively affect revenue growth, create the means of service disruption and affect competitive advantage gap and put the business model at risk.

POSITION - To reduce Sequenom’s OPEX and drive the top-line business goals and initiatives, Sequenom’s should …show more content…
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