Case Study: Coty Inc achieves rapid global cloud migration and seamless onboarding of 12,000 employees with Office 365

Cloud technology supports Coty in drive to celebrate beauty

Coty is a global beauty company with more than 10,000 employees that sought a scalable, secure platform to support rapid growth and global consistency—especially after acquiring Procter & Gamble’s Specialty Beauty business and needing to onboard 12,000 new employees within six months. The challenge was to standardize tools and branding across 150 countries, accommodate varied privacy laws, and give sales teams easy access to multilingual materials while reducing reliance on local IT infrastructure.

Coty moved to Microsoft 365 and Office 365 (including SharePoint Online and OneDrive), completing a global mailbox and account migration in four months, and implemented Windows 10 laptops, Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection, Advanced Threat Analytics, and Azure MFA for stronger security. The cloud rollout enabled fast resource scaling, unified user experience, consistent global branding (presentations in ~60 languages for the Wella sales force), improved collaboration and productivity, and streamlined onboarding and device refresh efforts (65% of employees on new Windows 10 laptops).

Coty Inc

George Katsouris

Global IT VP, Operations & Services