Case Study: Sopra Steria achieves simplified SharePoint provisioning and 177% adoption growth with AvePoint DocAve Governance Automation

Sopra Steria Simplifies SharePoint Site Provisioning and Enforces Governance for 38,000 Microsoft® SharePoint® Users with DocAve® Governance Automation

Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital transformation with 38,000 employees across 20 countries, relied on Microsoft SharePoint 2013 but faced heavy manual workloads and governance risks after several mergers. A small SharePoint team struggled to provision sites that met organizational standards, manage thousands of legacy content sources, and keep up with growing user requests.

By deploying AvePoint’s DocAve suite—including Governance Automation, Migrator, Content Manager, and Administrator—Sopra Steria introduced role-based service catalogs, four standardized templates, automated lifecycle policies, and self-service provisioning. The result: platform adoption grew 177%, IT eliminated thousands of unmanaged sites (7,000 deleted, 4,700 retained), migrations were completed, and administrators regained time previously spent on manual SharePoint management.

Sopra Steria

Florian Deckert

Collaborative Tools Manager