Hammerson

Hammerson is Europe’s leading real estate company, working primarily in the retail sector. The group invests in and develops shopping centres, retail parks and prime offices and its high quality portfolio of around 1.2 million m² of retail space and over 260,000 m² of prime offices, is valued at £5.7 billion.

The company had long been aware of the benefits that an intranet would bring to their organisation in terms of streamlining business processes, and chose Smart Media’s Intelligent Intranet solution in 2001.

Continued growth and changing business needs resulted in a requirement to upgrade and refresh their intranet early in 2006 to ensure ongoing relevance and effective use throughout the organisation.

"With operations in the UK and France, we increasingly rely on our intranet for the efficient dissemination of information across the various locations, so I am delighted that our existing Intelligent Intranet solution has evolved throughout the years to meet our changing business needs. It has proven to be flexible and versatile, and has allowed us to upgrade the navigation, and refresh the look and feel, quickly and easily. Working with Smart Media, the transition was seamless. Perhaps the greatest benefit was that we didn't have to regenerate any of the content." explains Andrew Thomson, Hammerson's Group IT Director.

"Now we reap the benefits of what feels like, to us, a completely fresh new intranet - but without the need to start from scratch."