Case Study: Aker Solutions (Oil & Gas) achieves global social collaboration and centralized knowledge sharing with Avanade’s SharePoint 2013 solution

Oil and gas industry leader ignites Social Collaboration with innovative approach to enabling global teamwork

A global oil and gas services leader with operations in 30+ countries and over 20,000 employees faced major knowledge‑sharing challenges: disjointed communications, project silos, difficulty finding experts, and limited collaboration with external partners—creating inefficiencies and safety and quality concerns across long, stakeholder‑heavy projects.

Working with Avanade, the company deployed a SharePoint 2013–based social collaboration platform (MySite, improved search, communities and microblogs) to create a centralized knowledge hub. Early results include strong adoption (about 9,000 MySite pages), 20+ communities launched, faster expert discovery and problem resolution, improved project transparency, and a scalable foundation to extend collaboration to partners, mobile users and analytics‑driven improvements.