Case Study: Shire achieves centralized global collaboration with Microsoft SharePoint

Leading global biotech firm embraces cloud collaboration to focus on patients with rare diseases

Shire, a global biotech specializing in treatments for rare diseases, faced the challenge of rapidly integrating people and processes after a major acquisition that expanded its workforce from about 5,000 to nearly 24,000. The company needed to replace disparate legacy systems and enable a globally dispersed, mobile workforce to collaborate securely and work across time zones.

Shire standardized on Microsoft Office 365—using OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Yammer—and built The Hub, a centralized digital workspace. The new platform gave employees one place for news, documents, and collaboration, accelerated information sharing and brand planning, improved mobile and secure access to content, increased employee engagement, and allowed the company to scale communications and productivity while better supporting patients worldwide.

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Wei Wong

Commercial Analytics Lead