Case Study: Kraft Heinz achieves rapid merger integration and global collaboration with Office 365

Iconic food brands join forces, feeding innovation and teamwork with Office 365

The Kraft Heinz Company, formed by the 2015 merger of Kraft Foods Group and H.J. Heinz, is a global food-and-beverage leader with some 50,000 employees and hundreds of iconic brands. The business faced the challenge of quickly unifying two large organizations—people, processes, and technology—while keeping employees productive, erasing cultural and communication boundaries, and accelerating innovation and speed to market.

Kraft Heinz standardized on Microsoft Office 365 (Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business, OneDrive, Power BI, Yammer, and Office ProPlus) to give every employee a common email and collaboration platform on Day One, launch merger portals, enable real‑time meetings and mobile work, and surface analytics. The result was faster decision‑making and operating integration (weeks instead of months), near‑universal use of online meetings, improved global teamwork and knowledge sharing, and quicker product and campaign launches driven by more agile, data‑driven collaboration.

Kraft Heinz

Beth Codner

Head of Global People