MIGRATING TO OFFICE 365

Migrating to Office 365

When it comes time to migrate to Office 365, there are a few questions you’ll want to ask. What are you making the transition from, and why? What benefits will you expect from the migration? What level of assistance will be required?

Answering these questions provide a good base to start with, but having a trusted email migrations specialist at hand can help you dive deeper into the process and communicate the benefits across the entire organisation.

Below, you’ll find some free and helpful information to get you prepared for your migration to Office 365.

Domino or GroupWise to Office 365 Migration

At Email Migrations, we receive a number of requests to migrate business from Domino or GroupWise to Office 365 (O365). If you are thinking about making the leap to a more powerful solution, then choosing to migrate from Domino or GroupWise to Office 365 is a great choice. Here are just three ways you’ll benefit:

Cut on-premise costs drastically by removing the need to hire and outside Exchange expert.
Eliminate the need for Exchange servers. This mean no building, no management, and no need for additional spending.
A more simplified and approachable experience. With Office 365, all your favourite aspects have been moved to the cloud.
Increased productivity and communication – access anything, anywhere!

If you want to know more about the benefits of making a migration to Office 365, our team would be happy to book a consultation and discuss them with both you and your company further.

And what about the migration process itself? For many small businesses, downtime can cause a serious disconnect with your customers and staff. This is where we at Email Migrations can be of tremendous assistance, clearly providing a method and reasoning that is understood by everyone in your business, from the frontline staff to the IT department and right up to high-level executives.

Having a clear idea of what is not only expected, but what there is to gain from a migration, will greatly assist in streamlining the process and finding an implementation solution that works.

Domino and GroupWise to Office 365 Migration Process

When we consult on an Office 365 migration project, our overall aim is to minimise disruption to your business, whilst also ensuring the Office 365 migration project is completed as quickly as possible.

Moving from Domino or GroupWise to Office 365 is a high-level migration that requires specific tools. As experts in the field with unmatched experience, we recommend using Office 365 tools from Dell (formerly Quest) or Binary Tree. We use these third-party tools to ensure our team can offer you a robust migration solution that is packed with features. When we consult on an Office 365 migration project, our overall aim is to minimise disruption to your business, whilst also ensuring the Office 365 migration project is completed as quickly as possible.

Moving from Domino or GroupWise to Office 365 is a high-level migration that requires specific tools. As experts in the field with unmatched experience, we recommend using Office 365 tools from Dell (formerly Quest) or Binary Tree. We use these third-party tools to ensure our team can offer you a robust migration solution that is packed with features. Business downtime can be financially crushing, which is why we offer a range of consultancy solutions to help you make the transition faultlessly.

While any size business will want to maintain a level of communications throughout the migration, larger organisations will want to migrate to Office 365 over a longer period, and therefore will benefit from coexistence – allowing for users to be spread across both the Domino and Office 365 platforms.

Allowing for coexistence will incur additional complexity – and cost – to a migration project. Partnering with our consultants will ensure that you have a migration specialist with rich experience in setting up coexistence between these two platforms. Further, our consultants are equipped with the necessary knowledge and qualifications to provide the highest level of expertise.

Some consideration before the migration

Business downtime can be financially crushing, which is why we offer a range of consultancy solutions to help you make the transition faultlessly.

Our consultant expertise – migration specialists you can rely on

Most importantly, we have extensive real-world experience across multiple email migration projects. By implementing our consulting services, you can rest assured to not only save money on your migration, but know that you’re working directly with a trusted professional, responsible for multiple high-level business transitions.

Through the many Office 365 migrations we’ve successfully completed, our knowledge has adapted to best achieve the results you want. Microsoft offers a walkthrough that is unfortunately complicated, and can leave many feeling the migration isn’t worth the effort. With our expert team, you can be sure to understand the process every step of the way.

We further advise in the creation of an Office 365 Migration Strategy document, which allows all stakeholders in your migration project to have a clear understanding of the benefits and challenges from the start. See this great partner blog article on the importance of Office 365 Migration Speed, and how it can affect your project,.

Our team have completed many successful Domino and GroupWise migrations – 1,000 to 14,000 seats across more than 50 unique projects with migrations to Office 365.

We offer global support and can expertly perform both remote and on-site work as required. To learn more, get in touch with our team today.