Happy Horizon uses Happeo for smooth mergers and acquisitions

A fast-growing company

“At the beginning of 2021 we had around 300 people, and now as we start 2022 we have close to 500 people. We're growing really fast and we have big ambitions, but we still want to have the feeling of a small company. We try to stimulate everyone to be innovative and creative, and we strive to keep a flat hierarchy. ”

Living and breathing creativity

Happy Horizon is an online marketing agency based in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands. They cater for all marketing needs, from videos, copywriting, to website development.

The challenge: New companies integrating the New Horizon family

“We’ve acquired multiple companies over the years, and within Happy Horizon, we now have 6 different companies. Every company has their own work processes, documents, and general information. As we expanded in the Netherlands, we started to lose touch with each other. We didn't have a solution to bridge communication gaps and big announcements were done over email — which as we all know isn’t the most efficient way of communicating. We were really missing one system that would have all our information in one place. We knew that if we could centralize all our resources, then everyone could use the same templates, receive the same information from HR, stay up to date with company news and feel a sense of connection with the other offices.”

An intranet with social features to align all employees 

Happy Horizon set out the following requirements to find their ideal social intranet:

• Native integration with Google Workspace
  
  
• Channels to post to and share company accomplishments and celebrations
  
  
• Database to store all their resources
  
  
• Social features to collaborate between teams and offices  

A Google Workspace intranet

“An important factor for us was to find an intranet that integrated with Google Workspace. We wanted a seamless integration that would allow us to access all our documents, files, calendar and emails straight from our intranet. Centralization of information was critical for us as we wanted our intranet to serve as the connector between all our offices.”

A fast and efficient intranet adoption

“We're creating a strong community with our Hapeo platform. And it’s been a really successful implementation. Recently we onboarded our most newly acquired company to Happeo. And the day after, the new users were already posting. They were participating in big conversations right away. Everyone is really enthusiastic about it and really active on the platform.”

“We're creating a strong community with our Happeo platform. And it’s been a really successful implementation. Recently we onboarded our most newly acquired company to Happeo.

And the day after, the new users were already posting. They were participating in big conversations right away. Everyone is really enthusiastic about it and really active on the platform.”

The features that Happy Horizon loves most

• Channels for each new taskforce
  
  
• Posting feature for management to gain visibility
  
  
• Pages and Channels to manage virtual onboarding 
  
  
• Integration with Google Workspace and Slack