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CDW

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Technology solutions provider CDW Corporation (CDW) is embracing generative AI to power employee productivity and accelerate customers’ AI journeys.

As employees experimented with the tool and shared features like meeting summaries, excitement grew, leading to increased requests for access to finally rollout to 10,000 employees.
Developing firsthand expertise in generative AI CDW is a multi-brand technology solutions provider for customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, with more than 15,000 employees.
With online training resources and a collaboration venue in place, CDW is eager to see how Copilot will drive productivity and innovation among its 10,000 employees, creating a ripple effect that will empower clients to achieve remarkable results.

Reported impact

Business outcome

October 23, 2024 Technology solutions provider CDW Corporation (CDW) is embracing generative AI to power employee productivity and accelerate customers’ AI journeys. Microsoft 365 Copilot has significantly helped CDW achieve its goals by improving work quality for 88% of users, enabling 77% to complete tasks faster, and increasing productivity for 85% of users.

  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement
  • Speed to Market

Solution

CDW used Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft Dynamics 365, GitHub Copilot to surface grounded answers from enterprise knowledge faster. Technology solutions provider CDW Corporation (CDW) is embracing generative AI to power employee productivity and accelerate customers’ AI journeys. Key implementation elements included Microsoft 365 Copilot applies AI to documents, meetings, mail, and other everyday knowledge work; Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides the common business process layer that standardizes operations; GitHub Copilot accelerates software delivery with AI-assisted code generation and review; Microsoft Azure hosts the application, data, and integrations on scalable cloud infrastructure. Enterprise content from documents, meetings, websites, or internal systems is passed through retrieval and model services so users receive grounded answers inside the target workflow. The solution also connects with ERP, helping the new platform fit into existing operations. Source metrics...

Data flow

Enterprise content from documents, meetings, websites, or internal systems is passed through retrieval and model services so users receive grounded answers inside the target workflow.

Solution architecture

6 components · 4 layers
  1. Compute
    • GitHub Copilot Accelerates software delivery with AI-assisted code generation and review.
    • Microsoft Azure Hosts the application, data, and integrations on scalable cloud infrastructure.
  2. Serving
    • Microsoft 365 Copilot Applies AI to documents, meetings, mail, and other everyday knowledge work.
    • Microsoft Viva Extends the deployment with employee experience and knowledge-sharing capabilities.
  3. Orchestration
    • Microsoft Dynamics 365 Provides the common business process layer that standardizes operations.
  4. Uncategorized
    • Microsoft 365 Provides the documents, messages, and meetings that feed user workflows.

Evidence from the source

CDW is an early adopter of Microsoft 365 Copilot.
Developing firsthand expertise in generative AI CDW is a multi-brand technology solutions provider for customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, with more than 15,000 employees.
October 23, 2024 Technology solutions provider CDW Corporation (CDW) is embracing generative AI to power employee productivity and accelerate customers’ AI journeys. Microsoft 365 Copilot has significantly helped CDW achieve its goals by improving work quality for 88% of users, enabling 77% to complete tasks faster, and increasing productivity for 85% of users.
Technology solutions provider CDW Corporation (CDW) is embracing generative AI to power employee productivity and accelerate customers’ AI journeys.
With online training resources and a collaboration venue in place, CDW is eager to see how Copilot will drive productivity and innovation among its 10,000 employees, creating a ripple effect that will empower clients to achieve remarkable results.
Transparency Evidence & methodology 95/100 reference value · 92% 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 value95/100
  • Problem clarity20/20
    Measures whether the customer's operational problem is specific enough to compare.
  • Implementation depth20/25
    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 impact25/25
    2 metrics describe measurable impact.
  • Deployment scale10/10
    Rewards evidence of a live or scaled deployment and meaningful integration scope.
Evidence confidence92%
  • Source authority20/25
    The main evidence is an official vendor-published customer story.
  • 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 specificity10/10
    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

    CDW customer story

    First-party
    https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/19101-cdw-corporation-microsoft-365
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Oct 23, 2024
    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. CDW Corporation

    CDW 2024 Annual Report

    First-party document
    https://s205.q4cdn.com/557255526/files/doc_financials/2024/ar/CDW-2024-AR.pdf

    The 2024 Annual Report says, "our more than 15,000 coworkers around the world".

    Source type
    company
    Supports
    • Company size

Date evidence

  • Published on source page Oct 23, 2024 · Microsoft · First-party
    Open date source
Not separately sourced Industry, Region. Treat these normalized attributes as lower-confidence until a dedicated source is added.