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OneHealthWorld - The Novartis Global Pharma Intranet: Connecting Thousands to Help Millions

Novartis, a world leader in offering medicines to protect health, cure disease and improve well-being, selected Ruder Finn Interactive to re-design their Global Pharma Intranet.

 

 

OBJECTIVES

• Establish a universal internal communications process
• Deal with various architectural, visual, and technical issues.

RESULTS

• Ruder Finn redesigned the Global Pharma Intranet, branding it "OneHealthWorld."
• The redesign increased traffic and the initiative received outstanding qualitative feedback
• One Health World now serves 70,000 global users.
• One Health World features a suite of collaborative tools including a global press release collaboration tool used by over 20,000 users and a calendar for the Communications department.
• The intranet exists in Novartis' Interwoven content management system and features hundreds of business unit sub-sites.
• The intranet was implemented using Interwoven as the content management system. The content entry and approval process were developed using a customized interface based on TeamSite templates and workflows.
• The site deployment was implemented using OpenDeploy and DataDeploy as well as TeamSite's submit triggers to automate certain elements of content generation.