Shire has a clear mission: to enable people to lead better lives. Whether through treatments in neuroscience, rare diseases or regenerative medicine, there aren’t many companies with more dedication to improving people's lives than Shire. “We’re a company that touches almost every aspect that a business can be in,” said Bob Litterer, senior director of information security compliance at Shire. “We start at research and go onto development and manufacturing. We have sales, marketing and all of the typical business functions — we have it all. We also have a very diverse group of people outside of Shire that we need to collaborate with, so our IT at Shire needs to be able to evolve from the old model to one that is much more diverse, mobile and agile.” In order to make this transition seamless, Shire needed a partner that would enable them to better address the cloud.