A global intranet that works as fast in Singapore as it does in London
Benoy's intranet had grown organically across 11 studios in 5 countries and was starting to hold the business back. We rebuilt it from the ground up as a single, synchronised .NET portal that gave every office fast, local access to everything they needed.
The challenge
Benoy serves clients across more than 80 countries from studios in the UK, Asia and the Middle East. Over time their intranet had grown organically to keep up with that expansion, and while it was holding things together, the cracks were showing.
Files lived in different places depending on which office you were in. London was the primary data source, but access from other countries was painfully slow, so each office had started maintaining its own local copies to get around it. Internal communications were going out through different channels in different formats. The accounting system was outdated. Nothing was properly joined up.
The organisation needed a single platform that every studio could use at full speed, with consistent information, consistent tooling, and a consistent experience that reflected the Benoy brand.
What we built
Working alongside Oracle and Deloitte (who handled the accounts data integration), we designed and built a bespoke .NET portal that became the front face of the entire business operation.
The portal pulled contact, project and organisational data from Oracle and surfaced it through a clean, user-friendly interface. SharePoint sat underneath the document management layer, replicated across five SharePoint farms so that every office was working from the same source without any of the latency that had made the old London-hosted system unusable.
Key things the portal delivered:
- Fully synchronised access across all 11 studios, with documents loading at local speed regardless of where the user was based
- One or two clicks to reach any contact, project or piece of documentation
- A unified internal communications channel replacing the patchwork of formats and systems that had built up over the years
- Mobile-responsive design so staff could access everything from any device
- Windows network security throughout, keeping access properly controlled
- A UI that actually reflected Benoy's design-led brand rather than feeling like a back-office tool
The result was a platform that simplified daily work for everyone in the business, whether they were in Nottingham, Hong Kong or Dubai.
What this delivered
- 01 Local-speed document access across all 11 global studios
- 02 Single portal replaced fragmented systems across 5 countries
- 03 Mobile-responsive access from any device, anywhere
- 04 Centralised internal comms across all offices and formats
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