Case Study: HARTMANN achieves global collaboration for 10,000 employees with Avanade’s CONNECT (SharePoint & Yammer)

HARTMANN employees welcome the social enterprise and new collaboration tools

HARTMANN, a nearly 200-year-old global provider of medical and hygiene products, faced fragmented internal communication from a 15+-year-old intranet with outdated UX and mostly German content that led country teams to build separate silos. Seeking a long-term Office 365 partner, the company chose Avanade for its consultative approach to modernize cross-border collaboration.

Avanade delivered CONNECT, a SharePoint- and Yammer-based intranet designed from employee surveys and workshops to balance global and local content and prioritize dialogue and collaboration. CONNECT now serves more than 10,000 employees, with about 75% collaborating across 400+ active Yammer groups—reducing internal email, boosting event engagement and expert exchanges—and giving country teams control of local content, with analytics planned to optimize usage further.

HARTMANN

Tina Grosse

Global Manager Internal Communication