Case Study: Câmara Municipal de Cascais achieves 20% collaboration boost and 7% faster initiative completion with Microsoft Azure

City government embraces digital workplace, improving collaboration by 20 percent

Câmara Municipal de Cascais, the municipal government serving 206,500 citizens on Portugal’s coast, needed to move from a paper-based, departmentalized way of working to a more agile, mobile digital workplace. With about 2,000 employees and pressure to “do more with less,” the city sought better collaboration, transparency, and faster delivery of cross-team initiatives.

Working with Gfi Portugal, Cascais migrated to Microsoft Azure and Office 365 (including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business, and Microsoft Planner), putting 2,000 staff on cloud services and more than 1,000 employees on Planner to manage roughly 1,750 initiatives. The change boosted productivity and collaboration by about 20 percent, sped up group initiative completion by ~7 percent, improved accountability and onboarding, and gave field and office workers mobile access to current information.

Câmara Municipal

Miguel Pinto Luz

Câmara Municipal