About us

About Basefarm, An Orange Business Services subsidiary

Basefarm is a European Managed Service Provider. We create market leaders by integrating the key competencies for digital transformation – big data, cloud computing and information security, into one service offering. Our delivery model covers everything from ”idea to cable”; we provide strategic advice, implementation projects and infrastructure operations under one management and on any cloud. Basefarm was founded in 2000 and our team of 550+ top engineers and advisors are servicing global clients from our European offices and data centers in Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany and Austria.

Basefarm was top ranked in Whitelanes IT Outsourcing study Nordics 2018 and was recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in the European Cloud Computing Market 2015 for our unique methodology in application management. The unbelievable Machine Company (*um), part of the Basefarm group, was named Innovator of The Year 2018 by German business magazine “brand eins Wissen” and Data Analytics Leader by ISG Provider Lens Germany 2018.

In August 2018 Basefarm was acquired by the Orange Group, a leading global telecommunications operator, to reinforce the cloud expertise of Orange Business Services, its enterprise division. For more information, go to www.orange-business.com or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter and our blogs.

Stability for digital competitiveness

Digital is in our genes as we were founded to support internet enablement. We have in-depth knowledge in cloud technology and application management. As the strategic IT partner for many e-commerce, finance and public organizations, we provide true peace of mind so that you can focus on developing world class digital customer experience.

Proactive partnership

Our experts have one thing in common, true dedication to always make our customers solutions better. Our innovation and product development ensure you can fully exploit the possibilities of digitization in your market. You get your own customer team who have in-depth knowledge of your solution and who collaborate with your development team in both testing and implementation of new code to enable fast time to market.

Close cooperation

To achieve 100% availability and security of your services, while simultaneously working with agile methods to achieve digital advantages, requires understanding of your business as well as your IT-solution.

We believe this is best achieved with our local service delivery teams who work from our local offices around Europe ensuring in-depth knowledge of your solution and the availability of expertise when you need it.

Our goal is to enable our customers’ success through superior technological solutions. In Basefarm we believe that people and technology go hand-in-hand and that customer service is vital for success.

We are ISO 27001 certified and PCI DSS level 1 compliant. We have a dedicated and local 24/7 security team (Security Incident Response Team) and are a member of the global security organization First.org.

More about our emphasis on security.

Our history

Basefarm was born and raised in the Nordics. Digital is in our genes and we were founded year 2000 to support internet enablement. The foundation of the company is very much the same since the beginning; a customer centric, transparent, honest company with a flat organization.

During the past decade, we have scaled and continuously developed our organization to sell Enterprise Level, Managed Services and Solutions to businesses. This by making significant investments in operations systems and tools, data centers, network, security and complex solutions and added competences on big data and digital workspace, to our portfolio. But maybe most importantly refining the process and quality framework and invested in employees.

Today we are more than 760+ experts in Norway, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany and Austria and we operate in 11 countries in Europe together with our mother company Orange Business Services.

Basefarm was top ranked in Whitelanes IT Outsourcing study Nordics 2018 and was recognized by Gartner as a Cool Vendor in the European Cloud Computing Market 2015 for our unique methodology in application management. The unbelievable Machine Company *um, part of the Basefarm group, was named Innovator of The Year 2018 by German business magazine eins Wissen and Data Analytics Leader by ISG Provider Lens Germany 2018.

2000
BASEFARM FOUNDED IN OSLO, NORWAY
2003
OPENED OFFICE IN STOCKHOLM
2004
ACQUIRED TDC’S NORWEGIAN OUTSOURCING OPERATION
2005
SCHIBSTED ASA BECAME THE MAJORITY SHAREHOLDER
2006
ACQUIRED INFOSTREAM
2007
- BECAME A MICROSOFT GOLD CERTIFIED PARTNER
- OPENED NEW DATACENTER IN OSLO
2009
ACQUIRED BY REITEN & CO
2011
ACQUIRED BLUEDOME BV AND WEBDEAL AS
2012
- BECAME THE FIRST HOSTING PROVIDER IN NORWAY AND SWEDEN TO BE PCI DSS CERTIFIED
- ACQUIRED BY ABRY PARTNERS
2013
- ISO 27001 CERTIFIED MEMBERS OF FIRST.ORG
- ISO 14001 CERTIFIED
2014
AWARDED VMWARE PARTNER OF THE YEAR
2015
AWARDED GARTNER COOL VENDOR
2016
- TOP RANKED (#4) IN WHITELANE RESEARCH IT OUTSOURCING STUDY
- AWARDED BY GREAT PLACE TO WORK - TOP 10 WORKPLACES IN NORWAY 2016
2017
- AQUIRED THE UNBELIEVABLE MACHINE COMPANY - AWARDED BY GREAT PLACE TO WORK
- TOP 10 WORKPLACES IN NORWAY 2017
2018
BASEFARM GROUP ACQUIRED BY ORANGE BASEFARM JOINS FORCES WITH ORANGE BUSINESS SERVICES

Our values

Our values have remained the same throughout all these years and are an integral part of everything we do. They define how we work, how we collaborate, how we address complex IT challenges and treat our colleagues.

Skillful

With our technical excellence and professionalism, we take full responsibility for our customer’s business needs and requirements.

Dedicated

We care for our customers’ businesses and are committed to ensure the highest level of quality. We are energized by new challenges.

Close

We work in close collaboration with our customers and have a deep understanding of their requirements. Together we secure future development of the solutions.

Constructive

We are solution oriented and constructive. We focus on solutions rather than problems. With our systems and structured approach, we ensure stability and efficiency.