Case Study: Henderson Global Investors achieves bolstered SharePoint adoption and governance with AvePoint's DocAve

Henderson Global Investors Bolsters Microsoft® SharePoint® Adoption With DocAve®

Henderson Global Investors, a UK‑based asset manager with £74.4 billion AUM and ~1,100 employees, deployed Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 to improve collaboration but ran into gaps in data protection, administration and content management. Native SharePoint backups lacked fidelity for individual items and farm components, user and permission management was manual and site‑by‑site, and Henderson needed a way to deploy customisations and restructure site hierarchies without losing metadata.

Henderson implemented AvePoint’s DocAve platform (Administrator, Backup & Restore, Content Manager, Deployment Manager, Auditor, Monitor, SiteBin), gaining centralized governance, automated deployment from staging to production, granular backups with a Business Criticality Matrix and instant, full‑fidelity restores. The result was faster content reorganisation, stronger compliance and data protection, streamlined permissions and auditing, and a scalable foundation for wider SharePoint adoption and future migration to SharePoint 2010.

Henderson Global Investors

Ewan Courtney

Head of IT Platform Services, Henderson Global Investors