  {"id":64436,"date":"2022-05-23T22:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/?page_id=64436"},"modified":"2026-02-14T01:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:52:54","slug":"boehringer-ingelheim-gaining-new-customer-insight-across-global-events","status":"publish","type":"customer-stories","link":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/customer-stories\/boehringer-ingelheim-gaining-new-customer-insight-across-global-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Boehringer Ingelheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nAs one of the world\u2019s largest pharmaceutical<br \/>\ncompanies, Boehringer Ingelheim has made a name<br \/>\nfor itself developing innovative treatments that<br \/>\nimprove human and animal health. With more than<br \/>\n50,000 global employees, harmonization across its<br \/>\n88 regional offices is key to the commercial team\u2019s<br \/>\noperational efficiency and success. From an events<br \/>\nmanagement perspective, this has meant<br \/>\nimplementing global standards and platforms<br \/>\ndesigned to improve collaboration and analysis, while<br \/>\nmaintaining a sense of autonomy within local teams.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nTo gain a deeper, more holistic view of its global events strategy, Boehringer Ingelheim implemented <a href=\"\/eu\/products\/crm-suite\/events-management\/\">³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Vault CRM<br \/>\nEvents Management<\/a>, helping streamline operations, improve visibility into customer preferences, and optimize<br \/>\nthe user experience for both attendees and event organizers.\n<\/p>\n<h2>The need for a single view across events<\/h2>\n<p>\nA core pillar of Boehringer Ingelheim\u2019s commercial strategy is to streamline its global operations by integrating<br \/>\nactivities across different regions. Without a global integrated event solution in place, however, regional teams<br \/>\nwere using their own separate solutions, resulting in a fragmented landscape, no standard planning process,<br \/>\nand a lack of consistent reporting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIf everybody\u2019s working in different solutions, data is not comparable,\u201d says Beate Hansmann, global process,<br \/>\ndata, and platform owner for events and congresses at Boehringer Ingelheim. \u201cWe wanted to get everyone on<br \/>\nthe same platform so that we could collect the same data points for every customer and generate far better<br \/>\ninsights about the customer journey.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<h2>Developing a global blueprint for event planning<\/h2>\n<p>\nBoehringer Ingelheim already had a long-standing relationship with ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ, so when the team was considering<br \/>\nwhich solution to use, it chose Events Management in order to leverage all the integrated solutions that ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ<br \/>\nprovides. Since then, Hansmann and her team have rolled out the platform to 77 countries over the course of<br \/>\njust three years, with an eventual goal to deploy in a total of 88 markets.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMoving the entire company onto a new system was as much of a change management challenge as it was a<br \/>\ntechnical one. Hansmann and her team needed to clearly communicate the benefits the teams would gain. \u201cOne<br \/>\naspect was the integration with other systems to make the end-to-end process more efficient and streamlined,\u201d<br \/>\nexplains Aubry Sevrin, IT Lead Business Consultant. Offering a secure, compliant solution also helped end users<br \/>\nfeel more confident their data was safe, \u201cespecially for those processes where we could have breaches,\u201d he says.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe individual event organizers saw other benefits from using a single interface for all customer-facing functions:<br \/>\nthey now had one place to record all interactions and manage review and approvals. In addition, regional teams<br \/>\nwere pleased the new global platform and processes were flexible enough to accommodate and maintain<br \/>\ncountry-specific regulatory requirements.\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;We want to understand our customers better so that we can adapt our offerings to them. And that\u2019s exactly what Events Management offers: the ability to generate insights so we can better manage and support our customers.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span><br \/>\n\u2014Beate Hansmann, Global Capability Owner, Meetings and Events, Boehringer Ingelheim<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>New insights into the customer journey<\/h2>\n<p>\nWith a new global process supported by Events Management, Boehringer Ingelheim has been able to streamline<br \/>\nevent planning across the company. Instead of constant back and forth over email to propose events and share<br \/>\nbits of information slowly over time, event organizers can now use Events Management to reserve dates,<br \/>\nmanage invite lists, plan budgets, get approvals and more while meeting regional regulatory requirements.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWith deeper insight into what kinds of events customers are interested in, Boehringer Ingelheim can also<br \/>\nensure it is offering the right mix of in-person, virtual, and hybrid events. While face-to-face meetings previously<br \/>\ndominated event schedules, Hansmann notes that the company currently offers about 70-80% of its total events<br \/>\nas virtual offerings, which <a href=\"\/eu\/products\/crm-suite\/engage\/\">³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ Vault CRM Engage for Events Management<\/a> helps make seamless by allowing teams<br \/>\nto plan and execute field-led and collaborative virtual as well as hybrid events, all within ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ CRM.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs customer interest in face-to-face seems to be growing again, Hansmann predicts the number of hybrid<br \/>\nevents the company offers will increase in order to reach as many customers as possible. \u201cI do think a lot<br \/>\nof customers will prefer hybrid events in the future,\u201d she says.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNow that Boehringer Ingelheim finally has a single, unified view of its global events program, it can adjust its<br \/>\nevents strategy over time with a constant stream of data on evolving customer preferences. \u201cIn the end, it\u2019s<br \/>\nall about the customer journey,\u201d says Hansmann. \u201cWe want to understand our customers better so that we can<br \/>\nadapt our offerings to them. And that\u2019s exactly what Events Management offers: the ability to generate insights<br \/>\nso we can better manage and support our customers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read how Boehringer Ingelheim is gaining a deeper, more holistic view of its global events strategy with ³Ô¹Ï±¬ÁÏ CRM Events Management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":62479,"parent":0,"template":"","product-link-list":[],"class_list":["post-64436","customer-stories","type-customer-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/customer-stories\/64436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/customer-stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/customer-stories"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/customer-stories\/64436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94080,"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/customer-stories\/64436\/revisions\/94080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product-link-list","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.veeva.com\/eu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product-link-list?post=64436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}