Colliers International

To deliver commercial real estate services on a local, regional, and global basis, Colliers connects its workforce to enable collaboration for business development. The real-estate giant used Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to build an easy-to-use people-finding tool that its professionals use to connect with colleagues. The tool supports rich functionality and rapid development, while speeding up connections and helping Colliers forge deeper client relationships.

Heraeus moves to SharePoint

See why Heraeus choose to replace and modernize their current Notes applications with SharePoint.

Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) supplies thousands of news outlets with real-time news gathered from every corner of the globe. To continue to push on trends in the industry, simplify software development, and speed the publication processes, the AP decided to develop a new system for authoring, editing, publishing, and managing news stories. The not-for-profit designed a newsroom system based on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 and Microsoft Word 2010 to replace its proprietary, home-grown text processing system.

Today’s cloud – on your terms, for your enterprise

Enterprises around the world are taking advantage of the power, flexibility, and efficiency offered by cloud computing.

Fleishman-Hillard International Communications

Fleishman-Hillard is one of the world’s leading strategic communications firms. When the company wanted to optimize its internal communications in support of its work for thousands of customers worldwide, it chose Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 as the foundation for its enterprise collaboration portal.

Sony Electronics

As part of Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics employees collaborate with colleagues in offices around the world. The company sought a more efficient way to organize and search for documents on the corporate intranet, while also making it simpler for employees to connect with each other and share expertise. By deploying Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and becoming an early adopter of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, Sony Electronics has given employees advanced document sharing capabilities and a more effective and easily searchable intranet, saving time and boosting productivity.

Telus

This Canadian telecommunications company, spent considerable resources on third-party learning for its 35,000 team members. The company shifted its investment and adopted Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to serve as the focal point of a new information and social learning initiative.

Vinci PLC

VINCI PLC, the largest British subsidiary of VINCI, needed to decide how to integrate the messaging system from recently acquired company Taylor Woodrow Construction into its communications infrastructure, in a way that would allow the company to be agile and efficient. After considering several possible solutions, and carefully investigating the currently-used Google Apps offering, VINCI PLC chose to migrate its new users to Microsoft Outlook Web Access.

BGC Partners Saves $1 Million with Exchange 2010

With Exchange 2010, BGC Partners sought to improve the performance, scalability and stability of its e-mail system. BGC was also able to replace its storage area network with direct-attached storage.

Constellation Energy

To better weather the economic downturn that began in 2007, Constellation Energy set out to trim costs. It decided to consolidate its Web software vendors and standardize on Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 as the software foundation for all its Web properties: 30 public sites, 5,000 internal sites, the employee portal, and a records management system. The move will reduce software licensing costs by more than U.S. $1 million over the next five years.

Towers Watson

Each and every day, Towers Watson is entrusted with confidential client documents that must be stored in a secure, easily accessible way. To enhance the usability of its RecordsExcellence records management solution, Towers Watson is migrating the application to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.

Coca-Cola Enterprise migrates to Microsoft Online Services

With increasing competition in the marketplace, CCE needed a more effective way to collaborate with its employees, to increase its productivity, to enable better flow of information and to create more time for sales persons to engage with customers. Its worldwide presence required employees and executives to spend numerous hours on the road every week, travelling to internal meetings. With Microsoft® Online Services technologies, CCE can save travel expenses through online meeting tools and collaboration platforms that span time zones and geographies.

Subaru Canada Goes Big with Exchange Server 2010

With Exchange 2010, Subaru Canada wanted to improve the efficiency of its communications, especially among mobile employees who frequently had to call to check their voice-mail messages.

Office Mobile 2010 and Business Productivity on the Move

See how Office Mobile 2010 is transforming mobile productivity to meet the evolving needs of today’s workers. Smartphones with Microsoft productivity tools help users stay productive on the move.

Creation Technologies

To stay connected and make strategic decisions, the Executive Leadership Team at Creation Technologies meets three times per month and depends on updates to critical management documents. Executives frequently spent valuable time trying to manage document revisions and consolidate individual edits. To resolve these issues, Creation deployed the Microsoft Office 2010 suites and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to take advantage of co-authoring, offline access to documents, and other collaboration capabilities.

Lodestone Management Consultants

Lodestone wanted to provide better communication and collaboration tools for its consultants to access information and connect with one another, without high investments in its own infrastructure. The company subscribed to Microsoft Online Services to gain access to a suite of integrated, hosted communication and collaboration software. Now Lodestone consultants can take advantage of corporate knowledge stores and more efficiently collaborate on projects.

Statoil

Statoil, an international energy company, wanted to make it easier for its employees, who are located in 40 countries, to access and share information. Statoil is conducting a pilot implementation of Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for global collaboration, and expects the solution to provide its users with access to information at any time, help boost efficiency, and ensure the integrity of the company’s information.

People working together for a shared purpose

Microsoft Unified Communications and Collaboration: Exchange 2010, Lync Server 2010, and SharePoint 2010 help build productivity across your organization by enabling people to work together across the PC, phone, and browser - for a shared purpose.

Optimized Business Productivity with Microsoft Office 2010

Gain insight into how Office 2010 ushers in a new era of business productivity by providing the tools people need to do their best work from more places – whether they are using a PC, smartphone or web browser.

Studio Moderna

The company’s complex operations require fast and decentralized decision making—which places heavy demands on its IT systems. In upgrading its data management software, Studio Moderna sought to better unify data from disparate sources. The company will implement Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, which works with Microsoft Excel 2010 for business intelligence and Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 for collaboration.

Quicken Loans

Quicken Loans used Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 to build an organizational extranet where team members from every company in the family can find one another and share resources. Now, people can collaborate across business groups and IT environments to strengthen teams, accelerate projects, minimize redundancies, and exploit cross-company opportunities.

Carl Zeiss Vision

Carl Zeiss was on the Lotus Notes platform while SOLA was on the Microsoft platform, causing integration problems. The new and bigger Carl Zeiss Vision conducted an IT study and decided that it would save on migration costs by moving all Lotus Notes users and the former Domino applications to the Microsoft solution, deploying Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server across the 3,300-strong company.

Productivity with Enterprise Search from Microsoft

Taking advantage of the conversational, visual and contextual capabilities of search, General Mills employees can make better informed and effective decisions, leading to new revenue opportunities.

Improving Business Insights with SharePoint 2010

Agile companies need systems that enable collaboration and fast, relevant decision making. Go onsite with MDOT and GAFCON to learn how SharePoint 2010 increases insight into their organizations.