A global tech company helped 65K employees adapt to remote work with AI
With AI for support teams, help desk agents focus on transforming the support experience — not routine, button-clicking tasks.
An American computer hard disk drive manufacturer and data storage company. Headquartered in San Jose, California, it designs, manufactures, and sells data technology products, including storage devices, data center systems, and cloud storage services.
Challenge
Providing real-time IT support to about 65,000 employees without increasing the external help desk’s workload
Result
Automated the equivalent of 25 help desk agents with an AI-powered support chatbot
The Problem
Empowering employees, no matter where they work
In an era defined by digital information, few companies are as synonymous with data as this global tech leader. Decades after pioneering early floppy disks and calculator chips in the 1970s, the company has cemented its global leadership in data storage, powered by a workforce of roughly 65,000 employees.
Like any company of similar size, this company faced substantial obstacles on its path to better support its employees. A workforce spanning the entire world, for instance, means that urgent IT issues arise day and night, rendering real-time support a challenge. Ultimately, to set the gold standard for efficiency and experience in the workplace, investing in AI for its support team had become essential.
The Solution
Redefining the IT experience with AI for support teams
In April 2019, the global tech leader officially launched the Moveworks AI Assistant on Microsoft Teams. Right away, employees were able to self-service a wide range of IT issues in just seconds, straight on the Microsoft Teams collaboration hub, with no intervention from the help desk.
Before implementing AI for its support team, IT agents were manually addressing about 60,000 IT tickets each month, but with the help of an AI Assistant, the company’s down to approximately 40,000 tickets and falling.
Now to get support, all employees need to do is describe their issue in natural language, just as they would to a help desk agent. Moveworks handles the rest: leveraging advanced natural language understanding (NLU) to determine what the employee wants, then triggering a back-end workflow to resolve the issue in real time. From accessing software to ordering hardware, answering troubleshooting questions to resetting an expired password, AI turns frustrating IT problems into non-events.
The Result
65K employees transitioned to remote work overnight
Although AI had already proven to be a powerful force multiplier for the IT team before the COVID-19 outbreak, it was during the switch to remote work when AI Assistant became indispensable. Faced with a massive uptick in demand for tech help, the team relied on Moveworks AI to answer employees’ questions and resolve their requests autonomously — freeing up time to focus on urgent infrastructure updates.
For employees, having AI Assistant available on Teams was both an easier and a faster route to IT support during the transition to work-from-home. The number of active Moveworks users jumped by 180% in the first month of the COVID event, which signaled an enduring shift to AI-powered support and away from the IT help desk walk-up bar.
“Working from home means employees have to be more self-sufficient when they encounter tech issues because an IT person isn’t standing right beside them to help,” VP of Global Infrastructure of IT Operations, said. “That’s why our employees’ usage of Moveworks has skyrocketed since COVID-19 began. The bot provides the IT help they need, regardless of where they are and when they ask. That experience is quickly becoming our new normal.”
Thanks to the combination of human ingenuity and AI, this company has redefined what success looks like for IT teams, allowing help desk agents to focus on work that matters, not busy work.
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