Case Study
Easing the acquisition process
Customer Success Challenge Bio-Techne has been acquiring companies at a rate of three-to-five companies per year. “We constantly need to integrate networks. Taking possession of file servers that function like islands of data centers, strewn across global locations.” File sharing at Bio-Techne lacked unity which worsened as it acquired more companies. Acquisitions like the Protein Platform Division were exclusively using Dropbox, but this lacked the enterprise-grade controls Bio-Techne needed to protect Intellectual Property (IP). For example, once users were added to a folder, they couldn’t restrict access to subfolders; creating a security nightmare. “We don’t want files on the devices, which is really hard to do with Dropbox. There is no way to point to a local file server be