| COMPANY: | COTY Inc. |
| HEADQUARTERS: | New York/Paris |
| SIZE OF COMPANY: | More than 1,000 employees; more than $1B in revenue |
| INDUSTRY: | Consumer packaged goods, house, health, beauty products |
| PRIMARY PRODUCT LINE: | Fragrance and beauty products |
| NAME OF PROJECT: | State-of-the-Art IT Integration Overhaul |
| PROJECT OBJECTIVE: | To build a new integration architecture for worldwide supply chain management operations; quickly integrate the existing IT infrastructure with IBM’s and Unilever’s, without high costs and time constraints of manual coding; enter the services-oriented architecture (SOA) arena |
| TECHNOLOGIES EMPLOYED: | iWay Software, Information Builders |
| ACCOMPLISHMENTS/ROI: | Company is SOA-ready; unified infrastructure can integrate easily with new acquisitions; closer to being a real-time organization; eliminated manual coding; net benefit of $8.1 million and ROI of 415% within two months |