Rémy Cointreau, an alcoholic beverage brand, has chosen Centrify as its core identity management and mobile management platform, providing solutions securing enterprise identities against cyberthreats.

The alcoholic brand employs 1,800 people and generates more than $1bn in annual sales.

"Centrify will help Rémy Cointreau with these goals by transitioning it to a more agile, cloud-based security infrastructure."

Recently, it began an IT-led transformation to boost business agility, simplify user access to apps, and ease the recruitment of new employees.

Centrify will help Rémy Cointreau with these goals by transitioning it to a more agile, cloud-based security infrastructure.

Rémy Cointreau chief technology officer Sébastien Huet said: “We have many cloud apps from many different vendors and Centrify provides a portal through which users can get access to all those applications with a click or tap, from any device.

“In effect, Centrify ties all the apps together and gives them the feel of one large, unified solution. Centrify wasn’t a financial decision, it was a strategic move based on the agility it would deliver the company.”

The French alcoholic beverage company manufactures cognac, liqueurs and spirits. It is the result of a merger between Rémy Martin and Cointreau in 1990-91.