GESCO SE Unifies Microsoft 365 Collaboration for Its Subsidiaries with EasyLife 365 and bitery

Baar, Zug, Switzerland — December 09, 2025 – EasyLife 365, a provider of Microsoft 365 governance and lifecycle management solutions, worked with bitery GmbH & Co. KG to help GESCO SE introduce secure, consistent and scalable collaboration across its group. By deploying EasyLife 365 Collaboration, GESCO SE brought governance and self-service together, giving subsidiaries more autonomy while reducing IT workload and keeping structures and access in Microsoft 365 under control.

GESCO SE is an industrial group active in Materials Refinement and Distribution, Health Care and Life Science, and Industrial Assets and Infrastructure. As a strategic holding, GESCO SE acquires majority stakes in mid-sized industrial companies, often full ownership, and develops them for the long term. The subsidiaries operate independently, supported by the holding through coaching, consulting and controlling.

As collaboration between the independently managed portfolio companies increased, consistent management of Microsoft 365 workspaces became more difficult. Microsoft Teams is the central platform for communication and cooperation across the group. With 164 Teams workspaces and 470 users across the group, it became challenging to keep structures clear, ownership transparent and access secure. This raised the risk of redundant teams, inconsistent permissions and potential security or compliance issues. The subsidiaries needed freedom in how they worked, while the holding still had to ensure consistency, oversight and control without slowing people down.

To resolve these challenges, GESCO SE engaged bitery to implement EasyLife 365 Collaboration. The solution introduced clear governance rules, transparent structures and automated processes across Microsoft 365. Subsidiaries gained self-service capabilities to manage their own collaboration spaces, while the holding company retained central control through group-wide governance policies that applied to all companies.

GESCO SE now collaborates in a structured and secure way through:

• Governance and self-service working together, with clear rules for all collaboration assets while subsidiaries create and manage Teams using standardized templates.

• Structured team creation that supports the growing Microsoft 365 environment and ensures a consistent provisioning approach.

• Secure data exchange guided by regulated and auditable access principles for internal and external collaboration.

• Automated governance processes that review Teams regularly, identify unused collaboration spaces and clean them up without manual effort.

• Deep integration across Microsoft Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive, supporting everyday work throughout the group.

With EasyLife 365 Collaboration, GESCO SE has put a secure and scalable collaboration model in place for the entire group. Microsoft Teams has evolved from a niche solution into the primary communication platform. An analysis of the former environment showed that 70% of legacy Teams were no longer in active use. Today, new Teams are created via templates and governed from the first day, which keeps the environment purposeful, structured and easier to manage. Data can be shared reliably between subsidiaries and with external partners under uniform governance rules, while collaboration between the holding and its companies has become more transparent, efficient and straightforward.

As a result, GESCO SE now runs collaboration on a secure, well governed Microsoft 365 landscape across multiple companies.

“With EasyLife 365 we have a strong partner that enables us to create clear structure even in complex environments. That is why EasyLife 365 solutions are part of our standard Microsoft 365 stack,” said Filip Oldach, CEO, bitery GmbH & Co. KG

For more information, visit easylife365.cloud, bitery.de or gesco.de.