Craft Brewer Standardizes on Microsoft Technologies to Reap Integration Benefits

New Belgium Brewing, a Colorado-based craft brewery with origins in the Belgian style of ale making, has grown steadily from a home-based operation to a thriving company with distributors across the western United States. The company was using a Novell-based networking and e-mail system, which it found increasingly challenging to integrate with its business and IT applications from other vendors.

As a result, the company decided to standardize on Microsoft® technologies, migrating to Active Directory®, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, and the 2007 Microsoft Office system. With this new IT infrastructure, New Belgium anticipates a significant reduction in time spent administering its IT environment and a greatly improved ability to capitalize on its wealth of business information to drive its operations forward.