Case Study: Global Chemical Manufacturing Company achieves unified global research collaboration and knowledge sharing with Avanade

Chemical manufacturer connects scientists and chemists with innovative, robust collaboration tools

A global chemical manufacturer with roughly 50,000 employees engaged Avanade to modernize collaboration across R&D and the wider enterprise. The company faced three core challenges: capture and pass on knowledge from long-tenured scientists to new hires, make documents and experts easy to find, and remove manual publishing bottlenecks while enabling secure external collaboration and a consistent corporate experience.

Avanade deployed Microsoft SharePoint 2010 with NewsGator and custom MySites, adding profiles, a central publications repository, microblogs, tagging, enhanced search, standardized templates and secure external-sharing controls. The rollout improved knowledge sharing and discovery, empowered self-publishing, unified the intranet look-and-feel, enabled CEO communications to thousands of employees, onboarded 40+ external partners within two months, and established a scalable, supported roadmap for ongoing collaboration.