Case Study: Henkel achieves a rapid Office 365 migration and reinvents productivity with Avanade

Henkel Reinvents Productivity with Office 365

Henkel AG, a global manufacturer with ~47,000 employees across 75 countries, needed to replace an aging Office 2003/Lotus Notes environment with Microsoft Office 365 quickly, securely, and with minimal disruption. The migration was complex—Office and Notes were integrated into roughly 1,350 applications—and Henkel was concerned about application compatibility, single sign-on, user adoption, compliance, and keeping costs under control.

Avanade provided end-to-end support—from business case and application testing to single sign-on, language-aware deployments, extensive training, and ongoing managed services—modifying or upgrading apps as needed and driving change management. The result: 47,000 users migrated in 13 months (two months ahead of plan) with under 2% activation failures, 50% early adoption of Lync, lower operating costs, and a cloud platform that accelerates Henkel’s digital workplace and productivity gains.

Henkel

Markus Petrak

Corporate Director Integrated Business, Henkel AG