Case Study: Anglo American achieves real-time global SharePoint synchronization with AvePoint DocAve Replicator

Anglo American Seamlessly Synchronises SharePoint® Content Worldwide With DocAve® Replicator

Anglo American, one of the world’s largest diversified mining groups with 107,000 employees and more than 20,000 SharePoint users, had consolidated to a decentralized Microsoft SharePoint environment spanning three geo-distributed farms (Johannesburg, Santiago and Brisbane) storing some 600GB of content. The company needed real-time, two-way synchronization across unreliable networks, automated replication scheduling, and intelligent bandwidth control because native SharePoint could not efficiently keep content consistent across farms.

Anglo American deployed AvePoint’s DocAve Replicator, implementing full and event-driven replication plans, network throttling, and scheduled transfers to ensure up-to-the-minute content propagation without saturating links. The result was reliable global synchronization for 20,000+ users across three continents, maintained business productivity despite poor connectivity, and strong support from AvePoint—prompting confidence in the decentralized architecture and consideration of additional DocAve solutions.

Anglo American

Mark Jarvis

Portal Owner, Group Applications, Anglo American