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Arcadis

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Arcadis wanted to drive greater efficiency with self-service automation tailored to each project and client. At the same time, the company wanted to avoid the high costs of development with custom code.

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Operating in over 70 countries, the company employes over 36,000 architects, designers, engineers, and project managers.
The company had access to Power Platform through its Microsoft 365 licenses.
With the adoption of Power Platform, Arcadis now supports an active Power Platform community of over 3,000 members.

Reported impact

Business outcome

Arcadis is also involved in early testing of Plan Designer —an AI-powered experience that can build an end-to-end Power Platform solution in a matter of minutes. “We see how Plan Designer can significantly boost our developer experience and really accelerate the documentation process,” says Matheij.

  • Cost Reduction
  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement

Solution

Arcadis wanted to drive greater efficiency with self-service automation tailored to each project and client. At the same time, the company wanted to avoid the high costs of development with custom code. With the adoption of Power Platform, Arcadis now supports an active Power Platform community of over 3,000 members. Solutions range from automated extraction of data in SharePoint and Oracle to classification of documents using natural language processing. The company recently migrated over 50 automation projects from a third-party platform to Power Automate and has moved from SharePoint to Dataverse for better scalability and security. Arcadis is also working with new Power Platform innovations such as Plan Designer and plans to triple its premium Power Platform licenses in 2025.

Data flow

Data from SharePoint is routed through Power Platform workflows, stored or synchronized in Dataverse, and surfaced to users through Power Apps and Power Automate for execution, reporting, and follow-up actions.

Solution architecture

5 components · 3 layers
  1. Storage
    • SharePoint Hosts source documents and collaboration content that downstream apps automate or analyze.
    • Dataverse Stores governed business data for scalable Power Platform applications.
  2. Serving
    • Oracle Provides source operational data that is integrated into the automated workflow.
  3. Orchestration
    • Power Platform Provides the low-code automation platform used to build, govern, and scale business apps and workflows.
    • Power Automate Runs workflow automation, approvals, and background routing across connected systems.

Architecture clues

  • Dataverse: Stores governed business data for scalable Power Platform applications.
  • Operating in over 70 countries, the company employes over 36,000 architects, designers, engineers, and project managers.
  • Power Automate: Runs workflow automation, approvals, and background routing across connected systems.
  • Power Platform: Provides the low-code automation platform used to build, govern, and scale business apps and workflows.
  • SharePoint: Hosts source documents and collaboration content that downstream apps automate or analyze.
  • With the adoption of Power Platform, Arcadis now supports an active Power Platform community of over 3,000 members.

Evidence from the source

Arcadis is also involved in early testing of Plan Designer —an AI-powered experience that can build an end-to-end Power Platform solution in a matter of minutes. “We see how Plan Designer can significantly boost our developer experience and really accelerate the documentation process,” says Matheij.
Arcadis is the world’s leading provider of sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions. Operating in over 70 countries, the company employes over 36,000 architects, designers, engineers, and project managers.
Arcadis wanted to drive greater efficiency with self-service automation tailored to each project and client. At the same time, the company wanted to avoid the high costs of development with custom code.
The company recently migrated over 50 automation projects from a third-party platform to Power Automate and has moved from SharePoint to Dataverse for better scalability and security. Arcadis is also working with new Power Platform innovations such as Plan Designer and plans to triple its premium Power Platform licenses in 2025.
With the adoption of Power Platform, Arcadis now supports an active Power Platform community of over 3,000 members. Solutions range from automated extraction of data in SharePoint and Oracle to classification of documents using natural language processing.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 75/100 reference value · 95% confidence · 2 sources

Review how this reference was scored and trace each normalized claim back to its documented source.

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Scoring methodology

How scores are calculated

Customer Reference Value measures usefulness as a customer reference. Evidence Confidence measures the quality and traceability of available evidence, not independent verification.

Customer reference value75/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth25/25
    Rewards named components, data flow, integrations, and architecture detail.
  • Outcome specificity20/20
    Measures whether the reported benefit is concrete rather than a generic claim.
  • Quantified impact0/25
    0 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence95%
  • Source authority25/25
    The deployment is described by the adopting organization or a government source.
  • Claim traceability23/25
    11 of 12 key fields link to a named source.
  • Direct evidence20/20
    5 direct source quotes retained.
  • Date provenance10/10
    The publication date comes from the source page or publisher.
  • Source transparency9/10
    2 source references document publisher, URL, authority, retrieval, and supported fields.
  • Implementation specificity8/10
    Rewards source-backed components, data flow, quantified impact, and a specific outcome.
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Traceability

Sources & provenance

Field coverage shows which facts each source supports. Dates are shown only when documented by the source.

  1. Microsoft

    Arcadis customer story

    First-party
    https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/21772-arcadis-power-apps
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Feb 4, 2025
    Supports
    • Customer
    • Business problem
    • Solution
    • Products
    • Solution components
    • Data flow
    • Integrations
    • technical area
    • use case category
    • Business outcome
    • outcome category
    • Metrics
    • Architecture
    • evidence quotes
    • Publication date
  2. Lobbyregister des Deutschen Bundestages

    Arcadis Annual Integrated Report 2024

    Government
    https://www.lobbyregister.bundestag.de/media/69/6e/580970/Arcadis-annual-integrated-report-2024.pdf

    The 2024 annual integrated report says Arcadis is "unlocking the power of more than 35,000 Arcadians around the world"; using 35,000 as the reported lower-bound headcount maps Arcadis to Enterprise.

    Source type
    Government registry
    Supports
    • Company size

Date evidence

  • Published on source page Feb 4, 2025 · Microsoft · First-party
    Open date source
Not separately sourced Industry, Region. Treat these normalized attributes as lower-confidence until a dedicated source is added.

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