Driving customer success and satisfaction has always been one of the core priorities of the Microsoft OneDrive team. We have the privilege of working continuously with exemplary customers who leverage the latest and greatest Microsoft 365 technologies to drive digital transformation.
Starting today, we’ll publish a monthly blog post to recognize our customers who have embarked on their journey to a modern workplace with OneDrive and Microsoft 365. We take pride in sharing the business successes and IT accomplishments of our customers and hope these inspiring stories and best practices across enterprise and SMB will help you in your endeavors as well.
This month we take the opportunity to acknowledge Autodesk who has been both a customer and partner over the years.
Based in San Rafael, California, Autodesk makes software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries. The company’s goal is to take the complexity out of its design products and tools so that customers can use them from anywhere.
“We help people imagine, design, and make a better world. We automate our customers’ design and make processes, so they can realize the Future of Making Things—which enables them to do more, better, with less negative impact on the world,” says Prakash Kota, Chief Information Officer at Autodesk.
To further benefit from its Office 365 subscription, Autodesk decided to migrate all employees to Microsoft OneDrive from a competitive third-party solution.
“With OneDrive, employees can access their files and data from anywhere, anytime, and on any device. We made the move to OneDrive to truly maximize the benefits and value of the Office 365 platform,” says Justin Brown, Senior Service Manager for Office 365 and OneDrive at Autodesk.
Faced with the challenge of migrating millions of employee files for more than 12,000 employees (which includes globally dispersed Autodesk employees and third-party contractors across the US, EMEA, and Asia) to Microsoft OneDrive, global software company collaborated with Microsoft Partner Network member Mover and customer-success service Microsoft FastTrack to execute a smooth transition; watch and learn more via Mover’s related case study video, “Migrating Autodesk to OneDrive.”
Scott Buck, Human Resources Business Partner for IT at Autodesk, realizes the value of the transition. “In the beginning, we were concerned regarding the change, but after the migration, we realized OneDrive is a really simple tool to use with easy sharing experience. I think one of the big advantages that I see in OneDrive is the ability to essentially collaborate on a document in real-time.”
Read the full Autodesk case study.
We also appreciate the wonderful partnership we have with Autodesk. Earlier this year, we announced new integrations with Autodesk AutoCAD to better connect the industry-leading capabilities of AutoCAD with DWG files in SharePoint and OneDrive.
Expanding on this partnership, at SharePoint Conference North America ,we announced AutoCAD-based previews of DWG files in OneDrive and SharePoint.
We continue to evolve OneDrive as a place to access, share, and collaborate all your files in Microsoft 365, keeping them protected and readily accessible on all your devices, anywhere.
Learn more about similar customer stories at Microsoft Customer Evidence.
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Ankita Kirti – OneDrive | Microsoft