Giant Australian retailer Coles is providing 100,000 staff with access to  Microsoft SharePoint Online as part of a company-wide adoption of Office 365. 

“Office 365 will provide our employees with a digital identity with security protection that gives them the ability to create and share ideas and learnings in a less structured way wherever they choose”, said Conrad Harvey, IT Group General Manager, Coles Australia. 

“For Coles, the Microsoft Cloud was the only choice for such a progressive project of this scale. It integrates with our existing on premise environment and its familiar interface will ensure our team members can interact easily with the new platform.”

The company aims to provide all staff with Web access to a portal that will automate many functions such as holiday requests and approvals. It will provvide around the clock access to pay slips, rosters, holiday calendars, training, blogs and corporate social networking .

“Coles joins Qantas, Coca-Cola Amital, Spotless Group, Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Origin Energy and Fortescue Metals Group moving to the cloud using Office 365.” said Oscar Trimboli, Director of Microsoft Office Division, Microsoft Australia.