AstraZeneca opens a $9 million IT facility in Chennai, India as part of their plan to bring services back in house after outsourcing for 13 years. They plan to open a second site in San Francisco in 2015 and a third in Eastern Europe in the next two years. Currently 70% of the IT spend is with third party suppliers however the plan is to reduce this to 30% in the next three years. Bringing their IT services in house AstraZeneca hope that they will be able to reduce their costs, increase efficiencies and make their data safer.

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