Case Study: Timmons Group achieves data consolidation and faster cross‑office collaboration with Panzura Freedom Collaboration and Freedom Archive

Timmons Group Replaces Legacy Storage, Consolidates Data

Timmons Group is a 60-year, multi‑disciplined engineering and technology firm (ENR Top 500) with 16 offices and 650+ employees. The firm struggled with data silos from disparate office servers, making cross‑office collaboration difficult and leaving branch data vulnerable — a server crash once took an office offline for a full business day, costing the firm millions and prompting IT Manager Bryan Corcoran to seek a consolidated, more resilient storage solution.

Timmons implemented Panzura Freedom Collaboration and Freedom Archive on their Azure architecture to remove silos, reduce duplicate backups, and strengthen disaster recovery. The solution consolidated project drives by division, sped remote file access from 5–6 minutes to under a minute, enabled seamless cross‑office work and acquisition onboarding, and balanced workloads across offices while improving restore times for IT.

Timmons Group

Bryan Corcoran

IT Manager