Case Study: KL Engineering achieves secure remote-first growth and better talent retention with Egnyte

KL Engineering Future-Proofs Talent and Wins New Work With Egnyte

KL Engineering, a growing civil engineering firm with five offices across the Upper Midwest, needed a secure way to support remote-first work after its legacy file servers and VPN setup struggled with large Civil 3D files and collaboration. The team at KL Engineering evaluated options and chose Egnyte to replace outdated file access with a cloud platform that could protect sensitive data, support mobile work, and help the firm attract and retain top engineering talent.

Egnyte implemented a seamless, secure content platform that preserved the familiar network-drive experience while enabling remote access, file sharing, and version recovery across offices. With Egnyte, KL Engineering improved business continuity, reduced IT overhead, and increased staff utilization during winter non-billable periods; the firm also reported being able to fully enable a remote employee in the time it takes to ship a laptop, and to bring an office online in half a day.

KL Engineering

John Goltz

IT Discipline Leader