Global pharmaceutical company
Shire is to overhaul an intranet used by 4,000
employees worldwide.
With a turnover of $1.7bn, the firm is the UK’s third-largest
pharmaceutical company, and plans to go live with the new intranet
later this year.
It said that a new content management system is key to the
intranet’s success because it will allow more non-technical
contributors and editors to manage content on the intranet.
Shire plans to implement Percussion Software’s web content management
system
Rhythmyx 6 to update content on the intranet.
Shire said it chose the system because it supports its corporate
governance, accessibility and security requirements.
A key objective of the intranet project is to enable it to act
as a gateway to all sources of company information, said Shire,
allowing content to be personalised and password protected.
Shire European applications director Mike Longden said that as
the company continued to grow and change, its intranet needed to
grow with it.
Shire focuses on manufacturing medicines to remedy attention
deficit and hyperactivity disorder, as well as developing human
genetic therapies, and researching gastrointestinal and renal
diseases.
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