Case Study: Dimension Data achieves global collaboration and data residency compliance with Microsoft Office 365 Multi-Geo

IT consultancy extends global employee productivity with data residency compliance

Dimension Data, an IT consultancy, faced a challenge expanding its Microsoft Office 365 deployment due to Australian data residency requirements. This prevented the company's 2,500 Australian employees from being part of the global tenant, hindering collaboration and forcing them to maintain expensive on-premises infrastructure.

Microsoft provided a solution with Multi-Geo Capabilities in Office 365, allowing a single tenant to span multiple datacenter geographies. By implementing this, Microsoft enabled Dimension Data to store Australian data locally while keeping everyone on one platform. The results included annual savings of $244,000 from decommissioning on-premises servers and full global collaboration for all 28,000 employees.

Dimension Data

Louise Michelson

Technology Adoption Consultant