Using the intranet

BASF is the world’s leading chemical company, with a portfolio ranging from oil and gas to chemicals, plastics, performance products, agricultural products, and fine chemicals. BASF helps its customers in virtually all industries be more successful. With its high-value products and intelligent solutions, BASF plays an important role in finding answers to global challenges such as climate protection, energy efficiency, nutrition, and mobility.

Headquarters: Ludwigshafen, Germany

Number of employees the intranet supports: 95,000

Locations where users use the intranet: BASF.net was rolled out globally, in all BASF regions worldwide (Europe, North America, South America, and Asia/Pacific). The global technical rollout of the group intranet with the global BASF.net homepage serves more than 73,000 employees at more than 760 BASF sites around the world.

Annual sales: Almost €58 billion in 2007.

Design team

The BASF.net core team consisted of 10 people including BASF in-house staff and external partners.

Members

In-house: Julia Buchner, project leader; Vladimir Mello, concept and communication support; Beate Zissel, technical project leader; Bernd Schabacker, information manager and intranet support; Bernward Schuka, IT administration; Gerald Ebisch, intranet support, Stefanie Seiter-Walch, intranet support. BASF IT Services: Oliver Schröpfer, technical lead service provider; Claudia Lindner, lead architect service provider.

Pixelpark: Sabine Hoppe, senior designer; Marian Möhren; information architect; Roger Wahl, senior project manager.