Microsoft Manufacturing France

Legrand

Customer Service Automation · Document Processing

Legrand, a leader in electrical and digital building infrastructures, powers everyday life by delivering essential products, from lighting controls to wiring devices. But with more than 300,000 products across 90 countries, keeping product information accurate, up-to-date, and globally relevant is a monumental challenge.

Reported impact

Business outcome

Legrand co-developed AI-powered tools Gaia and Elia, using Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, to streamline product data management and improve customer support. Using Gaia reduced the time to generate product data by 60%, while using Elia improved customer support interactions with fast, accurate information.

  • Customer Experience
  • Productivity Improvement

Solution

Legrand used Azure OpenAI Service, Azure AI Search, Microsoft Dynamics 365 to turn complex business content into faster digital workflows. Legrand, a leader in electrical and digital building infrastructures, powers everyday life by delivering essential products, from lighting controls to wiring devices. But with more than 300,000 products across 90 countries, keeping product information accurate, up-to-date, and globally relevant is a monumental challenge. Key implementation elements included Azure OpenAI Service generates natural-language responses and task automation for the solution; Azure AI Search retrieves enterprise content so answers stay grounded in customer data; Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides the common business process layer that standardizes operations; Azure Data Lake stores shared enterprise data for analytics and AI workloads. Business documents and enterprise content are ingested into the AI workflow, classified or summarized by the model layer, and routed into...

Data flow

Business documents and enterprise content are ingested into the AI workflow, classified or summarized by the model layer, and routed into the application or operations process where employees can review and act on the output.

Solution architecture

6 components · 3 layers
  1. Compute
    • Azure OpenAI Service Generates natural-language responses and task automation for the solution.
    • Azure AI Search Retrieves enterprise content so answers stay grounded in customer data.
    • Microsoft Azure Hosts the application, data, and integrations on scalable cloud infrastructure.
  2. Storage
    • Azure Data Lake Stores shared enterprise data for analytics and AI workloads.
    • Azure Data Lake Storage Stores large-scale enterprise content for analytics and AI workloads.
  3. Orchestration
    • Microsoft Dynamics 365 Provides the common business process layer that standardizes operations.

Architecture clues

  • Centralizes data in a lake architecture for shared analytics and AI use.

Evidence from the source

Legrand co-developed AI-powered tools Gaia and Elia, using Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, to streamline product data management and improve customer support.
Legrand co-developed AI-powered tools Gaia and Elia, using Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, to streamline product data management and improve customer support. Using Gaia reduced the time to generate product data by 60%, while using Elia improved customer support interactions with fast, accurate information.
Legrand, a leader in electrical and digital building infrastructures, powers everyday life by delivering essential products, from lighting controls to wiring devices. But with more than 300,000 products across 90 countries, keeping product information accurate, up-to-date, and globally relevant is a monumental challenge.
Vincent Wang, Chief Digital Officer at Legrand, captures the scale of the task: “With so many product references, it’s a huge challenge at the group level to provide the most correct, relevant data.” AI-powered tools to transform operations To meet this challenge, Legrand collaborated with Artefact’s AI and data specialists to co-develop two powerful tools—Gaia and Elia—developed with Azure OpenAI Service Azure AI Search , and Azure Data Lake Storage , within Microsoft Cloud for Manufacturing .
Transparency Evidence & methodology 75/100 reference value · 90% 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 confidence90%
  • 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
    4 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

    Legrand customer story

    First-party
    https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/19697-legrand-azure-cloud-services
    Source type
    Vendor-published customer story
    Published
    Nov 14, 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. Legrand

    Key figures 2025 - Legrand

    First-party
    https://www.legrand.com/en/group/legrands-key-figures/2025

    The page says "More than 39,600 employees worldwide".

    Source type
    Official key figures page
    Supports
    • Company size

Date evidence

  • Published on source page Nov 14, 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.