Considering a change from ShareGate? There could be numerous reasons for this, including the desire for a SAAS solution, additional features, quicker response times, or better cost control.
Looking for a ShareGate alternative? Let’s explore why Cloudiway might be a more suitable option.
ShareGate Alternative: SAAS or On-Premises ?
Cloudiwat is a full SAAS application whereas ShareGate is a software that you have to install On-Premises.
What are the benefits of SAAS application vs On-Premises software?
Ease of Setup: SaaS solutions are typically easier to set up as there’s no need to spend time on installing software on virtual machines (VMs) and securing them. This can significantly reduce the setup time for your project.
Cost Control: With SaaS, you have better control over costs. In an On-Premises setup, you might not know in advance how many VMs you will need or the overall volume of data to migrate, which could lead to unexpected costs, especially for outgoing traffic that will be charged to you. For instance Microsoft Azure will charge you about 100$ per terrabyte of outgoing traffic if you install your VM in their datacenter. In contrast, SaaS applications usually have a deterministic price with no hidden costs of infrastructure maintenance and traffic.
Speed: SaaS applications allow projects to proceed faster. There’s no installation time, so you can start your project or test it immediately.
Support: SaaS solutions can reduce the time spent on support since the provider has control over the platform and can debug issues directly. This is in contrast to On-Premises applications, where the provider might not have direct access to debug or log files.
Scalability: SaaS applications scale automatically and can start an unlimited number of migration processes (worker roles) on demand. With an On-Premises application, you would have to manually install more VMs to scale up.
In summary, SaaS solutions offer several advantages over On-Premises solutions, including ease of setup, cost control, speed, reduced support time, and scalability. However, the choice between SaaS and On-Premises will depend on the specific needs and circumstances of your organization. It’s always best to consider all factors before making a decision.
Advanced Functionalities
The following features are features available on the Cloudiway platform that may not be available in the ShareGate product. Do not hesitate to contact us if the content needs modifications (additional feature to add or to remove).
Mail Migration
- ShareGate Mail Migration product has been launched a few days ago. Cloudiway solution is 12 years old. Therefore, it’s probable that ShareGate product is missing a lot of features such as:
- Migration of secondary calendars
- Migration of Shared Mailboxes and Rooms and equipment. Provisioning of Rooms & Equipments and Shared Mailboxes.
- Migration of Distribution Lists
- Messaging systems such as Lotus Notes, Zimbra, most of Imap products, etc…
- Automatic forwarders. During batch migration, forwarders are automatically set up to route mail to the correct tenant depending on whether the user has been migrated or not.
- Scalability: Cloudiway has migrated infrastructures uf up to 80 000 mailboxes. Don’t expect to migrate an infrastructure of more than 50 or 100 mailboxes in a decent time using one ShareGate instance. In contrary, Cloudiway can scale your migration instance to migrate 100, 200, 500 mailboxes in parallal! The other workloads (Teams, OneDrives, SharePoint sites) will also be migrated in parallal at the same time than the migration of your mailboxes. Check with ShareGate if you can migrate all your workloads in parallal.
Google Workspace to Microsoft Migration
Microsoft FastTrack is using Cloudiway for their most critical migrations.
Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 migration is more than jsut a mailbox migration or a Google Drive migration. Don’t accumulate providers and choose a single solution to migrate everything. With Cloudiway:
- Migrate your Mailboxes and Google Drives
- Migrate your Google Sites
- Migrate your Google Chat and Google Spaces to Microsoft Teams
- Migrate your Rooms & Equipment
- Migration your distribution lists
- Migrate your Google Vault archives
- Migrate your Google Groups
- Global address list synchronization (GalSync) between Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
- FreeBusy between Google Workspace and Microsoft 365
Microsoft 365 Tenant to Tenant Migration
- Mailbox migration : Benefit from 12 years of expertise with Cloudiway to migrate your mailboxes between tenants.
- Teams Migration:
- Cloudiway migrates Private messages. One-One Chat messages are migrated and reinject directly into the Team Chats. A complete Teams to Teams migration project requires this functionality that ShareGate does not propose.
- Cross Tenant Devices migration: Registered and joined devices are migrated between tenants:
- Office Licenses reconfigured
- Laptop is joined to the target tenant
- OneDrive Synchronization agent is reconfigured
- Outlook profile is reconfigured
- Intune Migration: Intune configuration and settings are migrated between tenants
Find more about the Cloudiway solution for Microsoft 365 Cross Tenant Migration
Pricing
Cloudiway is one of the most affordable solutions on the market. For detailed pricing, please visit the Cloudiway website.
ShareGate instance is 5995$
Cloudiway Tenant Migration licenses starts at 40$ per user.
