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United Utilities
United Utilities Runs Hybrid Collaboration with Microsoft
United Utilities, a utilities organization in the United Kingdom, uses Teams from Microsoft to support hybrid collaboration for employees and partners.
A Teams rollout at United Utilities took hybrid collaboration out of inboxes and into a named queue.
“In the United Kingdom, employees and partners already knew where distributed meetings went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.”
“Microsoft provides productivity, business applications, and developer tools used across the enterprise, including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and GitHub.”
Independent write-up. Figures come from public sources or are illustrative.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Fewer stalled items because distributed meetings has a clear owner |
| Productivity | Handoffs in hybrid collaboration sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | Teams is the governed place employees and partners use for hybrid collaboration |
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United Utilities did not need another dashboard that nobody opened. It needed hybrid collaboration to move. In the United Kingdom, employees and partners already knew where distributed meetings went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.
Teams from Microsoft is now in that path. Microsoft provides productivity, business applications, and developer tools used across the enterprise, including Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and GitHub. The company treats it as production tooling for hybrid collaboration, which is why employees and partners live in it rather than exporting from it once a quarter.
United Utilities can show how distributed meetings is handled today. That is the value: a repeatable way to run hybrid collaboration on software the rest of the industry already recognizes.
