This article will help you choose the right product for your migration.
Introduction:
Why do customer need migration software to Migrate to Microsoft 365?
1. On Premises to Cloud Migration.
Maintaining On-Premises Mail infrastructure brings no value to the business and therefore Market is massively adopting to the Cloud. This provides more flexibility and allow to focus efforts on developping and maintaining business solutions. As such, customers need solutions to migrate their Exchange On-Premises servers, their Domino Servers (Lotus Notes) and their Imap servers to Microsoft 365.
2. Reversibility.
Customers have adopted Google Workspace and may now need, for various internal reasons, to migrate to Microsoft 365.
3. Merging and acquisition
As an increasing number of businesses embrace Microsoft 365, the need for migrations between Microsoft 365 tenants will rise. This is due to factors such as corporate mergers, splits, rebranding.
Difficulties:
The migration to Microsoft 365 is not straightforward.While this emerging migration landscape presents substantial opportunities for partners, Moving, migrating and consolidating legacy systems, cloud services such as mail and drives to Microsoft 365 tenants brings distinct challenges and risks that can have a considerable influence on the success of the migration and the satisfaction of the customers. It’s crucial to navigate these complexities carefully to ensure a smooth transition and maintain high customer satisfaction.
Proven Track Records:
Cloudiway performed the first large Google to Office 365 migration project in the world in 2012.
https://cloudiway.com/casestudies/ipsen-migrate-gsuite-to-office-365/
Cloudiway was choosen for its capacity to adapt his solution and cover unique customer needs during this project.
Since, Cloudiway has been chaining up big projects and migrated millions of mailboxes and drives among 10 000+ migration projects.
Let’s mention for example the migration of thousands of users for GAA, the migration of Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) and more than 100,000 users migrated from Google to Microsoft 365, the merger of Norbert Dentresengle and XPO (30,000 users migrated to Microsoft 365).
Technical Partnership with Microsoft:
More recently, Microsoft used a dedicated instance of the Cloudiway platform to merge Stellantis and Fiat (200,000 users) as their Fasttrack solution had too many limitation. They choose Cloudiway to migrate to Microsoft 365 all the data and workloads hosted in Google Workspace. Given the success of the project, their reused Cloudiway to merge Essilor and Luxottica.
Many other proven track records are available in our case study section. The include migrations to Microsoft 365, merging of tenants or migrations from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365.
Microsoft 365 Migration: Services Offered
Developing a stable product that covers all the needs of customers takes time. It is important to know the longevity of products, the company’s history in migrating a certain type of data. Migrating a messaging system is not improvised. It takes an average of 10 years to cover the most twisted scenarios imagined by users, from the user who uses hidden fields to store information, to the one who renames his contact folder or who will create a contact folder in his inbox, or even in his trash used as archives.
What about the migration of SharePoint sites or Teams, the particularity of Google Drives and Google APIs. Only experience, time spent takes precedence. With almost 15,000 migration projects completed, Cloudiway has established itself as the most innovative company in the field of migration over the past 12 years.
At the end of 2023, Cloudiway continues to innovate and now covers the migration between Google Spaces and Slack or Microsoft Teams. But where is the competition?
| Functionnalities | Cloudiway | BitTitan | ShareGate | AvePoint |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SAAS Platform | Yes | Yes | No (Hidden costs to maintain on-prem solution) | Yes |
| Mails | Yes | Yes | No (Beta in 2024) | Yes (2 years old solution. Not Mature) |
| Drives | Yes (since 2012) | Yes (Since 2015) | Yes | Yes (Launched around 2021) |
| SharePoint | Yes | Partially (Only Doclibs) | Yes | Yes |
| Microsoft Teams | Yes (since 2018) | Yes (since 2020) | Yes (since 2021-22) | Yes (since 2018) |
| Slack | Yes (since 2019) | No | No | Yes |
| Slack Direct Messages injection | Yes | No | No | No |
| Teams One-One Messages injection into chats | Yes | No | No | No |
| Google Spaces | Yes (since 2023) | No | No | No |
| Laptops (Registered Devices) | Yes (since 2023) | No | No | No |
| Intune | Yes (since 2023) | No | No | No |
| Google Sites | Yes (since 2015) | No | No | No |
| Google Vault | Yes (since 2015) | Yes (Not SAAS) | No | No |
| FreeBusy / GalSync | Yes (since 2015) | No | No | No |
Comparison of solutions to Migrate to Microsoft 365
Migrate to Microsoft 365: what makes the difference?
Newcomers are entering the migration market, with ShareGate recently announcing its messaging solution, 15 years after everyone else, or other players who specialize in migration niches such as Slack or Dropbox migration, some bringing on-premises tools to migrate individual users rather than entire companies.
Therefore it is hard to make the right choice.
- Is the product that you are choosing mature enough?
- What is the total cost of the solution? If the tool is an onpremises solution, on how many servers do I need to install it to migrate my entire company? What Is the total volume of data to migrate and how much will I be charged for the outgoing transfer?
- Is the product fully scalable? Can I migrate 100 unsers in parallal from only 1 instance or do I need to install the product in 20 different servers to parallelize my migration?
- Does the product migrate all my data? Or do I need several products and interact with several vendors and support team to perform my migration?
Conclusion: Cloudiway is a right choice to migrate to Microsoft 365:
- A single interface to migrate all your workloads
- No hidden costs behind on-premises solutions
- Years of innovation, and probably the most complete solution of the market
- A fully scalable solution to migrate 10 or 10 000 users
- A simplification of your project with a unique point of contact for your entire project
Migrate to Microsoft 365: The private Chat rehydratation challenge
Users massively use the chat features of Microsoft Teams to chat with one or more people. These data are important for end users and they want to continue to have access to these data after migration to the new tenant. One of the blocking points to carry out this migration is that these data are considered private and Microsoft does not allow administrators to access these user data.
Despite this problem, Cloudiway is currently the only platform capable of migrating private chats (also called one-one chat messages) between two tenants. To do this, Cloudiway offers a self-service mode where each user gives his consent to access his personal data. Once consent is given, the Cloudiway platform can access private chats, and recreate them identically in the destination tenant.
How to migrate to Microsoft 365 when you have Laptop Joined devices?
Last but not least, a new challenge is arriving. More and more companies now have registered and joined devices. They must be taken into account during the migration project. Furthermore, they can be enrolled into Intune and be automatically managed through the Microsoft MDM solution.
As an administrator, you wouldn’t want to have to reconfigure manually thousands of laptops. Cloudiway is here again to help you out of a difficult situation : The Cloudiway platform allows you to migrate your Intune settings and migrate your devices accross tenants.
Intune Migration
Thanks to Cloudiway innovations, you can migrate to Microsoft 365 with piece of mind.
