SkanskaUSAImprovesProjectManagementProcesses.docVIP

Overview Country or Region: United States Industry: Construction Customer Profile Skanska is a Fortune Global 500 company with annual revenue of U.S.$20 billion. Skanska USA Building, the third largest builder in the U.S., has 4,100 employees and U.S.$3.7 billion in annual revenue. Business Situation Skanska USA Building wanted to give project teams access to information and facilitate collaboration. The solution needed to scale to projects with budgets ranging from U.S.$15 million to $1 billion. Solution After using Microsoft? Office SharePoint? Portal Server 2003 to develop collaboration environments, Skanska used Office SharePoint Server 2007 to scale those environments for large, complex projects. Benefits More efficient operations Better change management Time and cost savings Simple adoption and use Flexibility to scale up and down “With Office SharePoint Server 2007, we’ve developed more efficient project management… That’s going to lead projects to coming in ahead of schedule and positive impacts to the bottom line.” Allen Emerick, Director of IT Applications and Integration, Skanska USA Building Skanska, a Fortune Global 500 company, is one of the world’s leading construction companies. One of its United States business units, Skanska USA Building Inc., is the third largest builder in the U.S. To facilitate efficient collaboration, Skanska needed to give external and internal project teams access to timely, reliable information, while maintaining the scalability and flexibility to handle more than 1,500 active projects with budgets ranging from U.S.$15 million to $1 billion. In 2004, Skanska used Microsoft? Office SharePoint? Portal Server 2003 to develop internal and external collaboration portals. In 2007, the company deployed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 to scale its collaboration portals for larger, more complex projects, improve change management processes, save time, reduce costs, and improve coordination with clients, subcontracto