Why EVA Global chose Happeo as their Microsoft 365-integrated social intranet - Happeo Blog

EVA Global is a leading Managed Services Provider dedicated to eMobility. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Finland, with offices in the Netherlands, Spain, and Germany.

Michael Loos, EVA Global’s E-Mobility Project Manager, kindly took the time to tell us why they choose Happeo as their social intranet.

Life before Happeo

Before Happeo, company news, updates, and achievements were spread through different channels depending on context. As the company is growing at a rapid pace, the need to centralize and organize information grew as well — it was necessary to accommodate the organization's many teams and departments. They focused their intranet search on finding a solution to:

• Streamline Internal Communications
  
  
• Encourage even deeper co-operation between different functions
  
  
• Ease the search for HR-information such as team structures and employee skills
  
  

EVA Global's culture of passion and engagement

Michael tells us: “Within EVA Global we have a very nice culture of being willing to help, being passionate, and being engaged. We wanted to be sure to keep that while scaling and expanding in different locations. We needed a digital tool to streamline our processes and support our culture.”

Why Happeo came to the forefront

EVA Global was relying on Sharepoint and Teams to store and share company information. They wanted a more efficient means of streamlining news that would not only integrate with their existing tools but also serve as a platform to strengthen their culture.

“With multiple offices, a growing team, and hybrid work, we saw Happeo as a digital solution to build employee engagement and bring everyone together. EVA Global has a lot of nice initiatives representative of our engaging culture, and Happeo will give visibility to these initiatives. We were also attracted to Happeo accommodating for both static and dynamic communications. We’ll be able to have our central knowledge base in Pages, and a more collaborative and engaging type of communication in Channels, thanks to social features such as commenting and tagging other users.”

What intranet feature are you most looking forward to?

“I’m especially excited about Happeo’s mobile app. The app will also be impactful for our staff members that will primarily use Happeo for communications. That means they’ll easily be able to stay in the loop and be informed with mobile notifications. And I know our HR department can’t wait to use the announcement feature. Previously, all-staff messages were sent via email. With Happeo they’ll now be able to post an announcement and easily confirm if it has been noticed.”

Happeo's integration with Microsoft 365

Happeo natively integrates with Microsoft’s most popular apps, including Word, Excel, Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams. And it doesn’t stop there. Happeo also integrates with third-party tools and offers an app launcher — you can access all your essential digital tools from one convenient platform. 

Michael explains why these integrations appealed to EVA Global: “When it comes to Microsoft 365, we use Teams a lot, especially as a chat app. We also use Outlook and SharePoint. We were happy to find an intranet that not only integrates with Microsoft 365 but also brings all our tools together. The option to integrate the digital tools we already use into our intranet will make life easier.”

The future of EVA Global and Happeo

“I imagine it will be more structured and more efficient. We’re planning to set up Happeo so that every department has its own Page where they can share meeting notes, updates, and useful information. This gives everyone the opportunity to see what’s going on in different departments and stay updated with the latest projects. This also eliminates the need to ask around for information and empowers employees to search for what they need.”

Before implementing Happeo, EVA Global struggled with company news, updates, and key achievements being scattered across various communication channels depending on the context. As a rapidly growing Managed Services Provider in the eMobility sector, the company found it increasingly difficult to centralise and organise critical information. They needed to accommodate many different teams and departments spread across their international locations.

To address these growing operational challenges, the organisation focused its intranet search on finding a single, cohesive digital solution. They specifically aimed to streamline internal communications and foster much deeper cooperation between different business functions. Additionally, they wanted to ease the search for essential human resources information, making it simpler for employees to find clear team structures and details about individual employee skills.

Maintaining their unique company culture was also a major concern during this period of rapid global scaling. The business prides itself on a culture of being willing to help, being passionate, and staying highly engaged. As they expanded across locations in Finland, the Netherlands, Spain, and Germany, they required a digital tool that could actively support and preserve these values while streamlining everyday operational processes. Without a central digital home, keeping this hybrid workforce connected and informed was becoming a significant administrative hurdle.

Ultimately, they needed a platform that could prevent information silos and bring everyone together.

EVA Global selected Happeo because they needed an efficient way to streamline company news that integrated seamlessly with their existing Microsoft 365 setup. While the company was already relying on tools like SharePoint and Teams to store and share information, they required a more engaging platform that could also act as a digital home to strengthen their company culture across multiple offices.

A key factor in their decision was Happeo’s unique ability to accommodate both static and dynamic communications within a single platform. The platform allows the organisation to host its central knowledge base in Pages, which acts as a static repository of information. At the same time, it facilitates collaborative and dynamic communication through Channels, which feature social elements such as commenting and user tagging.

Furthermore, the platform offered the perfect solution for a hybrid workforce by bringing a growing, distributed team together. This setup provides high visibility for the company’s many internal engagement initiatives. By combining structured knowledge sharing with social interaction, Happeo stood out as the ideal tool to build employee engagement, streamline internal processes, and ensure that remote workers remain fully connected to the core culture of the business. The decision was further reinforced by Happeo’s ability to support their rapid scaling efforts without losing the personal, collaborative touch that defines their workplace.

Happeo natively integrates with Microsoft’s most popular applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams, which makes it incredibly easy for organisations to transition without disrupting their established workflows. For a company like EVA Global, which already relied heavily on Microsoft Teams for daily chat communications alongside Outlook and SharePoint, finding an intranet that could bring all of these separate tools together was a major priority.

Beyond these native Microsoft integrations, Happeo also offers compatibility with a wide range of third-party tools. It features a convenient app launcher that allows employees to access all of their essential digital tools from one single, unified platform. This means staff members do not have to constantly switch between different applications to find the resources, files, or communication channels they need to complete their daily tasks.

In addition to these integrations, the organisation is highly excited about utilising Happeo’s mobile application and announcement features to improve connectivity. The mobile app ensures that staff members who primarily use the intranet for reading communications can easily stay in the loop and receive instant mobile notifications. Meanwhile, the HR department can replace bulk email announcements with Happeo updates, allowing them to instantly confirm whether critical messages have been read and noticed by the workforce.

Ultimately, this integration simplifies daily operations by empowering employees to search for information independently across all integrated systems.