Hilti Corporation provides innovative technology solutions to the construction industry; however, it needed the latest technology to manage its own projects in an efficient and scalable way. It worked with Campana & Schott to conduct two pilot programs featuring Microsoft Project Online, a cloud service for project portfolio management and everyday work. The company benefits from improved agility and collaboration in project management, which helps to reduce IT workload, decrease costs, and increase productivity.

This US management consulting firm works with customers to establish and benefit from management best practices. To help its 3,000 employees around the world share their experiences and determine the best solutions to customer problems, the firm is upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. With it, the company can reduce the time spent finding quality information, better address customer needs, and demonstrate technology leadership.

Bassier, Bergmann & Kindler (BB&K) is a branding and training company in Germany that manages hundreds of projects a year. It recently upgraded to Microsoft Project Online and deployed Microsoft SharePoint Online to better share information, model business processes, and access project tools online. BB&K expects to trim project management costs by 10 percent and has gained more flexible infrastructure scalability and improved communications.

The largest gas distribution contractor in the US, NPL Construction Company (NPL) has replaced its manual, siloed, and paper-based processes with a Business-Critical SharePoint solution from MyOVS®, providing automation, self-service, and mobility for compensation related processes for all employees across the company. The solution maximizes the value of their Microsoft® Office SharePoint® 2010 and SAP® system investments.

With 9,000 employees working in multiple locations and searching through terabytes of documents to make daily decisions, Aéroports de Paris wanted to make it easier and faster for people to find the information they need. Aéroports de Paris is upgrading to Microsoft SharePoint 2013 to take advantage of enhanced search, social computing, and other features that employees will use to find higher-quality information and better serve customers and partners.

Microsoft partner Nintex is a global leader in workflows for Microsoft SharePoint products and technologies. To extend its workflow expertise to project management, Nintex built a product called Nintex Workflow for Project Server, based on Microsoft SharePoint Server and Microsoft Project Server. Project managers use it to create workflows with drag-and-drop convenience. Because Project Server is built on SharePoint Server, Nintex was able to quickly develop and get the new product to market. Since launching Nintex Workflow for Project Server in December 2010, Nintex and its partners have gained access to the fast-growing project management market, and the company has seen a double-digit sales increase and gained competitive advantage.

Gran Tierra Energy needed to improve its project management process in order to complete drilling projects on time. It deployed Microsoft Project Server 2010 to give project managers a common project management language and executives quick insight into project status and risk. Gran Tierra Energy can now better deliver on investor commitments, use capital assets effectively, meet contractual obligations, and preserve critical relationships.

To standardize its project management methodology and tools, Chilean food company Carozzi deployed Microsoft Project Professional 2010, Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, and the BrightWork project management application. Project managers became productive on the solution within 30 days and are completing projects 25 percent faster. They can give all stakeholders instant insight into project health and are able to handle increasingly complex projects with less risk.

FOXit has deployed a Microsoft-based Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) technology to help its client Deltamune address performance and scalability issues with existing software programmes.