Case Study: Office Depot achieves stronger culture and resource savings with Microsoft Power BI

Office Depot keeps culture and community strong, conserves resources with Microsoft Teams as a platform

Office Depot faced a rapid shift to remote and hybrid work during COVID-19 and needed to preserve its people-first "5C" culture while consolidating a fragmented toolset (G Suite, Zoom, Slack, WebEx) into a single collaboration platform. To unify communications, streamline processes, and improve reporting, Office Depot adopted Microsoft 365 technologies — centered on Microsoft Teams and the Power Platform — and leveraged Microsoft Power BI for analytics and insights.

Using Microsoft Power BI alongside Teams and Power Apps, Office Depot moved 11,000 employees to remote work in three days, launched curbside pickup in 48 hours, and built more than 30 Power Apps in Teams that saved the company $100,000+ in costs. Microsoft Power BI provided integrated reporting while Teams centralized meetings, training, and app delivery; the result was faster decision-making, lower licensing costs, improved productivity, and a scalable citizen-developer program to sustain ongoing innovation.

Office Depot

Bob Marioni

Senior Software Engineer