Featured in this video: Amit Acharya, Head of Collaboration, Communication and Productivity Digital Solutions, Holcim
Executive summary: Holcim is a global leader in sustainable construction, helping meet growing infrastructure demands while advancing sustainability worldwide. With about 48,000 employees operating across the globe, Holcim relies on Google Workspace as a unified collaboration platform that connects its workforce through Gmail, Chat, Drive, and other core applications.
Built on enterprise-grade security, Google Workspace provides the foundation for Holcim to collaborate securely while embedding AI directly into everyday work.
Holcim has adopted Gemini to accelerate productivity and enable employees to focus on higher-value work. Teams use Gemini in Gmail, Chat, and Drive to draft emails, summarize meetings, and create standard operating procedures more quickly, while Gemini Notebook helps employees synthesize lengthy legal and compliance documents into actionable insights.
The company has also developed custom Gems that generate on-brand presentations, dramatically reducing the time spent creating slides while maintaining consistent messaging.
By reducing time spent on research and administrative work, Google Workspace with Gemini enables employees across sales, research and development, and other functions to dedicate more time to serving customers, developing sustainable products, and advancing Holcim's core business.
Challenge: With a global workforce of about 48,000 employees, Holcim needed to improve collaboration, accelerate knowledge sharing, and reduce the time employees spent on repetitive administrative work and research. Teams were managing large volumes of information across multiple applications and lengthy legal and compliance documents, making it difficult to quickly extract insights while maintaining consistency and security across the organization. Solution: Holcim standardized collaboration on Google Workspace, creating a secure, unified platform for employees worldwide. The company then embedded Gemini Workspace applications to accelerate everyday workflows, while Gemini Notebook enabled teams to quickly synthesize complex reports and policies. Holcim also developed custom Gems that automatically generate presentations aligned to the company's brand voice and messaging, helping employees create consistent content with far less manual effort.
Results: With Google Workspace, Gemini, Gemini Notebook , and custom Gems, Holcim has significantly improved productivity and reduced the time required to research, create content, and process information. Employees can draft communications faster, generate standardized presentations, and extract insights from hundreds of pages of documentation in record time. These efficiency gains allow teams to redirect time toward higher-value work—from helping sales teams engage more customers to enabling research and development teams to focus on creating the next generation of sustainable construction solutions. By embedding AI into everyday collaboration, Holcim is helping its global workforce work smarter while accelerating its mission to build a more sustainable future.
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