Case Study: Global Real Estate Firm achieves 30% faster onboarding and improved employee collaboration with Avanade's Office 365 digital workplace

Global real estate firm drives employee collaboration with new digital workplace solution

A leading global real estate services firm that grew through acquisitions to about 50,000 employees across dozens of countries struggled with seven disparate IT systems that hindered productivity and slowed integration of new teams. The company sought a single, accessible communications platform to unify legacy on‑premises and cloud environments and accelerate onboarding and collaboration.

Avanade deployed a cloud‑based unified communications and collaboration solution on Microsoft Office 365—combining email, intranet, presence, instant messaging and Skype for Business—and added a self‑service migration option so employees could transition at their own pace. The result was a scalable, consistent digital workplace that improved engagement and flexibility, lowered coordination costs, and sped up onboarding by 30%.