<p>About four years ago, AMAG Pharmaceuticals began an ambitious project to get rid of its internal and hosted data centers and move everything to the cloud.</p><p>While cases like these are still rare enough to be notable, they tend to follow a pretty standard template. Companies often begin by moving off Exchange or Lotus Notes to Gmail and Google Apps, as AMAG did. They find a cloud-based CRM system -- often Salesforce, although AMAG chose a smaller company called StayinFront that's focused on life sciences. They allow line-of-business units to choose particular cloud services for their own workflows, then use an online authentication system like Okta (as AMAG did) to give employees single sign-on.</p><p>But there's one critical thing that's unusual about AMAG. Its entire business -- designing and selling drugs -- is reliant on intellectual property. Companies like this are notoriously reluctant to move their full operations to the cloud. All it takes is one careless employee giving access to the wrong outsider at the wrong time to expose the crown jewels. Even when companies like these move mostly to the cloud, they tend to keep some core systems on premise to reduce this very real risk.</p><p>Apple Points To Services As Its Next Big Push CITE Goes Live! Register for the CITE Conference &amp; Expo, June 2-4, in San Francisco.</p><p><a href="http://www.citeworld.com/cloud/21863/cloudlock-helped-amag-pharmaceutical-go-all-cloud">Keep reading...</a></p>