Case Study: Leading Healthcare Technology Company achieves a streamlined, cost-efficient digital workplace with Avanade's SharePoint Online solution

Health technology company's employees get a more streamlined and efficient way of working

This health-technology company, focused on improving outcomes across the health continuum, faced a stalled digital workplace because its legacy intranet was outdated and fragmented: more than 900 standalone portals and 123,000 pages caused poor content discovery, duplication, costly third‑party publishing, and a burdensome content management load (about 430,000 management hours annually). Leadership made modernizing the intranet the first step in a company-wide digital transformation to simplify content management, boost collaboration and reduce costs.

Avanade was engaged to implement a SharePoint Online intranet integrated with VMware Socialcast, delivered via an agile MVP model with biweekly releases. The new platform added topic subscriptions, personalized and mobile experiences, improved search, tagging and collaboration features (including @ mentions), enabling the communications team to self-publish, cutting third‑party costs, saving substantial employee time, and providing a scalable, stable foundation for Office 365 adoption and global content internationalization.