Case Study: Shire achieves seamless global collaboration and rapid post-acquisition integration with Office 365

Leading Global Biotech Firm Embraces Cloud Collaboration to Focus on Patients with Rare Diseases

Shire, a global biotech focused on developing therapies for patients with rare diseases, more than quadrupled its size after acquiring Baxalta in 2016, growing to roughly 24,000 employees worldwide. That rapid expansion created a significant challenge to integrate people, systems, and processes across geographies while maintaining secure, timely communication and collaboration to keep research and patient programs on track.

Shire standardized on Microsoft Office 365—using OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Yammer and a custom digital workspace called The Hub—to centralize content, streamline communication, and enable secure mobile access. The move delivered a smooth IT transition, faster information sharing, higher employee engagement, and improved cross‑functional collaboration, allowing teams to work anywhere, anytime and better focus on delivering therapies to underserved patients.

Shire

Matt Walker

Head of Technical Operations