Case Study: PCL Construction achieves lower backup costs and greater agility with Microsoft Azure

Canada’s Largest Construction Company Chooses Microsoft As Long-Term Cloud Partner

PCL Construction, a large Canadian construction company, faced the challenge of securing and managing petabytes of project data while needing to meet stringent data residency requirements for its diverse clients. To enhance data protection and support its strategic pillars of cloud, mobility, integration, and data analytics, the company sought a partnership with Microsoft and their Azure Cloud Services.

Microsoft provided a solution by partnering with PCL to implement Microsoft Azure, beginning with a cloud backup system that slashed data protection costs by over 80%. The relationship expanded as Microsoft helped PCL build innovative applications like CraftStream and utilize Power BI for data analytics. The results included a faster time to market for new solutions, greater operational efficiency, and the ability to leverage new Canadian datacenters to meet data sovereignty needs, solidifying Microsoft's role as a long-term strategic partner.

PCL Construction

Chris Palmer

Senior Manager of Advanced Technology Services