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News Release from: BASF IT Services
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 19 September 2005
IT services outsourced from polymer
research group
Within the scope of continuous improvement of its IT infrastructure, the polymer research section of BASF has transferred its IT activities to BASF IT Services
There is very little that is more confidential to a company than its research results, because these form the basis of its future success Within the scope of continuous improvement of its IT infrastructure, the polymer research section of BASF has transferred its IT activities to BASF IT Services
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 14 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Until now, the polymer research in Ludwigshafen was responsible for its own IT.
Now 18 IT specialists are moving to BASF IT Services.
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A perfectly functioning IT system is also a prerequisite for the certification and accrediting of various quality management systems.
Work, especially in the analytics, ie registering new products, must be carried out according to this.
Particularly high value is placed on the exact and comprehensive documentation of all the measuring data and processes.
These are checked on a regular basis by public and regulatory authorities.
The task of BASF IT Services is to take over, monitor and further develop software for measuring and analytics according to the customer requirements, which in part have been developed by the researchers themselves.
This software runs via more than 600 special computers.
Added to this are the classical infrastructure services for standard computers, server and applications as well as the provision of a network.
This polymer research order is in the value of several million euros and initially scheduled to run for three years.
"We have found a competent partner we believe will transact the IT business successfully and long term," says the polymer research leader, Professor Dr Franz Brandstetter.
"We view ourselves as a system partner, which not only sells a product but also offers a solution," says Wolfgang Erny, speaking on behalf of the Board of BASF IT Services: "We are proud of this partnership and are convinced that both sides will benefit from it, ie research is able to concentrate on its main tasks and BASF IT Services can expand its portfolio with the objective of marketing it both in and outside of the BASF Group".
With this new order from the research sector, BASF IT Services shows that it is also the right address for non-standard IT.
BASF IT Services has proven its know-how with regard to infrastructure in the past years with the PC standardising project.
It newly installed approx 31,000 PCs in only 13 months in all the European locations of the BASF, clearly increased the service capacity of the relevant networks and reorganised the corresponding network services.
The customer profited from significant cost reduction and increased efficiency.
Polymer research is the competence centre of the BASF Group in the sectors polymer chemistry, polymer technology, polymer physics and analytics.
Its staff research and develop new polymer systems and optimise existing ones.
Research enjoys high-level procedural know-how and applies the most modern analyses methods.
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