Case Study: Leading Consumer Goods Company achieves faster time to market and improved collaboration with Avanade

Leading consumer goods company builds responsive collaboration platform

A global consumer goods manufacturer with about 100,000 employees across 150+ markets faced fragmented, independently built SharePoint sites, slow system performance (especially in Asia), and a culture of sharing by email rather than collaborative platforms. The company needed to reduce costs, improve collaboration among distributed knowledge workers and accelerate time to market.

Partnering with Accenture and Avanade, it deployed a responsive SharePoint 2013 enterprise portal featuring personalized dashboards, community sites, curated content, daily news and people‑finding tools—rolled out to 20,000 first adopters and dashboards serving roughly 70,000 knowledge workers. The new portal increased access to relevant content, boosted collaboration and productivity, drove a tenfold rise in unique cockpit users (from 5,000 to 60,000), and continues to evolve with plans for improved search and migration to SharePoint Online.