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Financial Services

3 minutes

Carne Group Teams And Security - a secure path to digitization

Client

Carne Group

Sector

Private Sector

Technology

Microsoft 365 and Teams

Carne Group Teams And Security – A Secure Path To Digitization

The Challenge

A financial services company with 10 global locations and an innovative platform for providing solutions to the asset management industry, Carne was looking to the cloud as a way to transition from multiple local organizations to a global operating model. Ergo extended and optimized the part that Microsoft products have played, principally in the use of Microsoft 365 and Teams, but also in meeting the security demands of a highly regulated business.

Ergo provided a best practice approach to running Microsoft applications and more resilient cybersecurity, moving Carne up to E5 licenses for Microsoft Modern Workplace. The company’s security posture has significantly improved through a combination of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Advanced Threat Protection and Azure Information Protection.

The Solution

By migrating Carne to Windows 10 and encouraging the adoption of Teams in 2019, Ergo had unknowingly prepared the company for Covid-19 and lockdown. A firm with very little home working experience was suddenly able to switch 350 employees, almost overnight as Pascal Dufour recalled: “It was a big change but it was seamless. All the groundwork was done technically because we had already gone with Microsoft 365, and Ergo advisory services were there to help on the culture change part.”

Being able to connect, collaborate and share documents in Microsoft 365 has enabled Carne to achieve its goal, to centralize and normalize the way employees work and interact from distributed global locations. Teams proved particularly crucial during Covid, not just for internal collaboration and for checking in with employees who found it hard to work from home, but as a way to continue to present to clients.

Impact

Carne has seen big benefits from Microsoft 365. Access to a suite of integrated applications in the cloud has boosted productivity and increased transparency. In just a click, employees can go from a messenger chat to a one-to-one video sharing desktops or escalate to a bigger conference call with more invitees. They can experience highly focused collaboration, including document and data retrieval where everyone works from the same up-to-date versions.

Ergo’s security refresh has also made a difference with only 67 incidents of 328 million security events requiring further action. Microsoft’s ongoing investments in security have been paying off for Carne, according to Group Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Pascal Dufour. “We would never be able to replicate internally what Microsoft can do around security and it would be madness to try,” he said.

Ergo security experts have also introduced Carne to best-practice SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and measuring itself against CIS (Centre for Internet Security Controls) benchmarks.

Customer Quote

“Three years ago, Covid would have been a massive catastrophe for Carne. We were lucky enough to partner with Ergo at the right moment in time,” said Pascal Dufour. “Partnership is the first word that comes to mind when I think about our relationship. It’s not about Ergo selling you something, it’s about providing the right answer to your problem. We know that if something goes wrong at any point in time we can call Ergo for the solution.”

“Three years ago, Covid would have been a massive catastrophe for Carne. We were lucky enough to partner with Ergo at the right moment in time,” said Pascal Dufour. “Partnership is the first word that comes to mind when I think about our relationship. It’s not about Ergo selling you something, it’s about providing the right answer to your problem. We know that if something goes wrong at any point in time we can call Ergo for the solution.”

Pascal Dufour

Group Chief Technology & Innovation Officer, Carne

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