Enterprise Content Management Success Story: Storage Optimization Case Study

How McCann Worldgroup Achieved 40% Efficiency Gains Through Intelligent Process Automation

The Challenge

McCann Worldgroup, with 14,000+ creative makers, faced exploding SharePoint storage overage charges from massive media assets. Storage costs became a budgetary nightmare while preserving intellectual capital remained essential.

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Project Goals

  1. Eliminate SharePoint storage overage charges while preserving asset access.
  2. Scale solution to handle 20+ million files and 5PBs of data.
  3. Maintain existing SharePoint workflows and user experiences. 

The Solution

Support Partners implemented AIR Archive, an Azure cloud-native media lake solution, for their active archive challenge with its’ unique capability to archive media content from SharePoint while deriving AI-enriched insight. Automated content lifecycle management scaled to 20+ million files and 5PBs while maintaining SharePoint integration for seamless user experience. 

The Business Benefit

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95% reduction in SharePoint storage costs. 

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20+ million files and 5PBs managed through automation.

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Faster federated discovery improving global collaboration.  


 

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Retained existing applications while reducing technical debt.


 

This enterprise content management success story demonstrates how intelligent storage optimization can eliminate budget constraints for global organizations facing similar SharePoint overage challenges.