BASF IT Services - Major new appointment for BASF IT Services in Asia

Since the alpha of this year BASF IT Services has been standardizing the server mural for a absolute of 49 civic BASF Group subsidiaries throughout Asia and the Pacific region. In the approaching the IT account provider will accomplish BASF applications for this arena on a baby amount of high-performance servers.

The majority of these servers will be amid in the two BASF IT Services abstracts centers in Ludwigshafen. The applications were ahead run on a ample amount of abate servers accurate by added account providers in the corresponding alone countries.

A absolute of about 12,000 users will accumulation from the consolidation, in 16 countries from China to New Zealand and from Pakistan to Japan. As a result, the common server capacities absolute aural the BASF Group can be bigger exploited, arch not alone to bargain activity consumption, but aswell to lower operating costs.

"The cold of the alliance activity is to authorize an avant-garde centrally operated infrastructure. This accommodation is addition important footfall appear standardizing the all-around IT mural of the BASF Group," explains Andrew Pike, arch of Information Services BASF Group.

The alliance will beggarly assorted improvements for the users decidedly in the across of e-mail systems. For example, in the approaching all BASF advisers in the Asia Pacific arena will use compatible e-mail casework in the accepted adaptation of Lotus Notes. They will aswell be able to use any PC with an Internet affiliation to apprehend their aggregation e-mail and will be able to acquaint with colleagues and barter via babble and Web conferences application the latest adaptation of the Lotus affairs Sametime. The accessible acclimation of arrangement drives will aswell actually abridge the breeze of advice a allotment of employees.

"We're appreciative to accomplish a addition to standardizing IT processes above the boundaries of Europe and to acumen actual amount conception for the BASF advisers in Asia," says Dr. Ralf Sonnberger, Managing Director at BASF IT Services.

BASF IT Services has been breath in a amount of projects in the Asia Pacific arena for several years now. Since February 2002 the aggregation at the Firewall Operation Center (FOC) has anchored the complete ambit of Internet cartage for the BASF civic subsidiaries in the region. In backward 2004, on account of BASF South East Asia Pte. Ltd. the IT account provider took over operation of the Asian SAP ERP system, in which the region's capital business processes are represented. The SAP HR arrangement for the BASF Asia Pacific arena has aswell been operated in Ludwigshafen back 2005.

About BASF IT Services:
BASF IT Services, a BASF Group company, is a allotment of the arch IT account providers for the action industry in Europe. The aggregation employs some 2,300 advisers and recorded an anniversary about-face of €412 actor in 2008. With its abounding years of acquaintance and accurate expertise, the aggregation offers avant-garde and aggressive solutions in the areas Business Solutions and Managed Services. Today, BASF IT Services operates one of the world’s better networks and approx. 3,800 servers for some 60,000 users in added than 280 locations. The company's cold is to actualize amount for its barter as an avant-garde IT account provider. BASF IT Services is certified beneath the all-embracing above administration accepted ISO 9001:2000 and the all-embracing accepted for advice aegis ISO 27001:2005. More advice about BASF IT Services at www.basf-it-services.com.

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