BSH Hausgeräte won the Inkometa Award for the best intranet in the Social Intranet / Collaboration Intranet category. The company received the award for its work on the intranet, which was introduced in 2020 in collaboration with its technical implementation partner, XALT Business Consulting GmbH.
The Inkometa Award is one of the most important prizes for internal communication in Germany and is managed by the SCM - School for Communication and Management. Since 2018, there have been awards in the categories of Media, Strategy, Campaign, Intranet & Digital Workspace, and International Internal Communication.
The Inkometa Award is a recognition of the hard work and the importance of the global information and collaboration platform that BSH Hausgeräte has invested in creating and maintaining its intranet. This award is proof of the company's commitment to providing its employees with the best possible working environment.
About XALT
XALT is a boutique consultancy based in Munich and Leipzig, with an office in the United States of America, that develops DevOps and IT infrastructure solutions and enables teams to collaborate efficiently. XALT helps companies bring digital products to market faster, bring teams together, and drive digital transformation.
XALT's clients are some of the most innovative and up-and-coming companies in the world. They range from manufacturing to the financial sector, e-commerce, and government institutions. Companies currently face the challenge of manually releasing and testing software and ensuring that everything is compliant and secure. The lack of the right tools, corporate culture, and mindset made collaboration between departments and teams difficult. XALT takes on the difficult but essential work of developing DevOps and collaboration solutions - so that companies and teams can focus on creating real value for their customers and users.
About BSH Hausgeräte
BSH Hausgeräte GmbH is the largest manufacturer of household appliances in Europe and one of the leading companies in this industry worldwide. Around 40 production sites and a strong network of 80 sales, production, and service companies in around 50 countries form the foundation of BSH's customer-oriented business model. BSH currently employs over 60,000 people worldwide.
About the intranet
BSH Hausgeräte worked closely with its technical partner, XALT Business Consulting GmbH, and its concept partner, ]init[, in creating and maintaining the intranet. The intranet features social functions such as likes, shares, and comments, as well as content tailored to the various teams, departments, and countries. There is also a central news hub for the entire company.
Technical implementation
XALT Business Consulting was responsible for the technical implementation of the intranet. The XALT team improved the technical specifications of the intranet over the past year and ensured that it remains available and runs smoothly, even during periods of high data traffic.
The BSH intranet leverages the power of Atlassian's Confluence and the Linchpin Intranet Suite. It is hosted in the AWS Cloud and utilises automatic scaling, automatic backups, automatic rollbacks, and integrated security features. These technical implementations enable BSH to keep the intranet running at all times with minimal downtime (99.95% uptime), even when 60,000 users access it. Learn more about the intranet here: https://www.xalt.de/en/success-stories/success-story-intranet-with-linchpin/
