Case Study: Carlsberg Group achieves global collaboration and €2M+ infrastructure savings with Microsoft SharePoint

Carlsberg Group - Customer Case Study

Carlsberg Group, a global brewer with 80 breweries and more than 40,000 employees, faced a major IT challenge after expanding through acquisitions: disparate local infrastructures and many separate user directories prevented easy knowledge sharing and slowed collaboration. Building a unified on‑premises system would have taken years and hurt competitiveness, so the company needed a fast, cost‑effective way to connect employees worldwide.

Carlsberg moved to Microsoft Office 365 (OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, Skype for Business), using a mix of cloud and on‑premises accounts and support from Microsoft Services and FastTrack to deploy a single global solution across about 30 local IT organizations. The change enabled recipe sharing, interactive video meetings, mobile file access for sales reps, and streamlined IT governance and support—avoiding more than €2 million in infrastructure costs and years of delay while boosting productivity, virtual teamwork, and time‑to‑market.

Carlsberg Group

Anders Munck

Enterprise Architect