Construction Firm Digitizes Collaboration and Workflows
Rhomberg Bau GmbH, a leading construction company, aimed to modernize and standardize collaboration across its diverse business areas. Faced with siloed project management, disparate legacy systems, and complex document sharing, the company engaged in a digital transformation initiative with the support of a Microsoft partner. Using the Microsoft Power Platform and other Microsoft 365 tools, Rhomberg digitized key processes, improved defect tracking, centralized documentation, and streamlined communication with stakeholders. The deployment of custom business apps enabled the reduction of manual effort, increased workflow transparency, and simplified cross-team work, ultimately changing organizational culture and preparing the company for continued digital transformation.
- Organization
- Rhomberg Bau
- Industry
- Real Estate
- Location
- Austria
- Published
- January 2019
Reported outcomes
Strategic outcomes
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Rhomberg Bau
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Unknown
- Linked source
- adoption.microsoft.com
No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.
Primary read
Use case focus
Showing 3 of 3
- 1Digitized defect tracking in construction
- 2Centralized building documentation and stakeholder communication
- 3Automated project document storage and management
- Disparate legacy IT systems and data silos across business areas.
- Inefficient project management with duplicated records and fragmented data.
- Complex, non-intuitive filing hierarchies thwarting document management.
- Difficulty in defect tracking, leading to budget and schedule overruns.
- Need for cultural and procedural change to enable collaborative digital work.
- Implemented Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power BI, Flow) with Dynamics CRM, SharePoint, and Outlook.
- Developed dedicated business apps for construction defect tracking, dynamic document storage, and building site documentation.
- Moved to a unified Microsoft Office 365 environment to replace outdated systems.
- Standardized and visualized processes to increase transparency and accountability.
- Improved transparency and quality of workflows.
- Reduced manual and administrative effort for key business processes.
- Simplified cross-team collaboration and increased stakeholder engagement.
- Time savings in document and defect management.
- Prepared the company for a broader digital transformation.
Architecture
The solution utilizes Microsoft PowerApps to build dedicated business process apps, Power BI for data visualization, Flow for process automation, Dynamics CRM as the data backbone, SharePoint for document management, and Outlook Online for communication—all integrated within a unified Microsoft 365 tenant. Projects and documents are created once and shared across all business areas with structured SharePoint site creation tied to CRM project entries.
Sources & evidence1
- Customer explicitly identified
- Primary source available
- Technical implementation details available
- Recent evidence check available
- Last evidence check: Jun 1, 2026.
The case's original source is still reachable.
- Cited source last checked Jun 1, 2026 — ok (0/1 broken).
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