Case Study: Polycom achieves closer collaboration and $1M+ savings with Office 365

Communications innovator uses Office 365 to bring customers and employees closer

Polycom, a global communications innovator with roughly 3,300 employees, needed to modernize its IT to better support distributed teams, improve security, and reduce the overhead of managing on‑premises servers and disparate collaboration tools. The company wanted faster feature rollout, reliable file sharing, easier external collaboration, and streamlined eDiscovery while working with a lean IT staff.

Polycom adopted the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Suite and Office 365 (including Exchange Online, OneDrive/SharePoint, Yammer, Skype for Business, Advanced Threat Protection and Intune) with Microsoft FastTrack and training support. The move cut more than $1 million in hardware and support costs over three years, eliminated many admin tasks, solved sync and file‑sharing issues, improved security and legal workflows, and boosted employee productivity and collaboration.

Polycom

Luc Trudel

Vice President of IT Infrastructure and Operations