On-Prem to Cloud

Deciding to move to Office 365 from your existing on premise servers can be hard and even a road block if you recently purchased or upgraded your current servers. There are many benefits to move to Office 365 now or in the future, with the biggest being the savings on hardware you will see over time as you free yourself of the need to keep up server repair and maintenance.

The cost of owning your own servers continue after your original hardware purchase into the ongoing utility fee's, hardware and software maintenance, additional storage, labor of staff, and so much more.  With Office 365 you can eliminate your Email/Exchange server, as well as your Sharepoint server allowing you to power off your on premise servers and rely on Microsoft's 99% up-time Service Level Agreement(SLA).

Microsoft will secure your data giving you options for relocating your data for backup and security, as well as in entering a Business Associate Agreement (BAA) required by HIPAA standards. With this Microsoft also utilizes the current standards for secure communications with TLS encryption as well as the option to use two-factor authentication to further secure your connection and company data.

Flexible licensing is available to make sure you get everything you need from webmail only, to full office suites, communication, VISIO diagramming, and publishing applications.  When combined with the Standard Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, and Access) you will always have the current version of applications once Microsoft releases them.  The updates are streamed right to your computer and installed without any user interaction as long as you maintain an active subscription.  Each user will be given 5 activation's to install Office on multiple computers they use.

Office 365 is just the start, once in the Microsoft cloud ecosystem you are primed to move onto the Azure platform allowing you to migrate all of your servers to Azure Cloud.  Azure allows you to run all of your servers as a Virtual Machine while only being billed for your usage which could save your company even more over time.  All services share your same user base still allowing for sing-sign on which allows your users to use their same username and password in all services as well as giving you access to a new Self-Service Portal allowing users to reset their own forgotten passwords or unlock user accounts.

All of this can be overwhelming to say the least and a project full of stress can often lead to a failed project.  Seek out professional consulting services from Nexigen to make sure your email migration is as quick and painless as possible. Our Solution Architects will come up with a solution tailored to your environment and needs that will yield a stress free migration.  For more information please email us: info@nexigen.com.