Case Study: DEG achieves a modern, engaging, cost‑effective on‑premise intranet with Valo

Valo provides a modern, cost-effective on-premise intranet for German development finance institution

DEG, the German Development Finance Institution (a KfW Group subsidiary with ~600 employees across 19 locations), needed a modern, user‑friendly on‑premise intranet that supported multilingual content and complied with its IT and data‑protection requirements. Their legacy SAP intranet was text‑heavy and unattractive, so DEG chose Valo — implementing Valo Intranet on SharePoint Server — because it supported on‑premise deployment, integrated with their existing SharePoint environment and met their technical constraints.

Valo, together with German partner PointPro Solutions for delivery, provided an out‑of‑the‑box, cost‑effective SharePoint solution with multilingual and social add‑ons, mobile responsiveness and a one‑off license model. The Valo Intranet increased company‑wide engagement (employees and C‑suite now publish and interact), made events/calendar pages popular, and improved internal communications; a staff poll showed more than 50% “satisfied” and 30% “completely satisfied” with the new intranet. Valo’s integration with SharePoint also kept maintenance simple for DEG’s IT team.

DEG

Cordula Theunissen

Internal Comms Specialist