Migrate to Office 365 Now
One small step to cloud, one big leap to Office 365. The key is to look before you leap.
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An ill-planned migration to Office 365 causes:
- Poor alignment between business and IT goals, metrics, and expectation.
- Overspending on licensing.
- Preemptive movement of services to the cloud.
- Lost opportunity to leverage existing infrastructure.
- Missed migration deadlines.
- Wasted time spent on predictable issues or decisions.
- Lost value/productivity in user transition and adoption.
A formalized process of migration results in:
- Clear understanding of the business strategy and objectives.
- Specific criteria for assessing the relevance of IT investments.
- Leveraging existing licenses of services to the full extent while moving to Office 365.
- Early exposed risk for project foresight to counter potential issues before an incident.
- Logical sequence of events in roadmap planning.
- Timely completion of milestone task deadlines and minimal project halt.
- Clear expectations across IT and business regarding Office value.
- Informed and engaged end users.
Module 1: Evaluate Office 365 License Needs
The Purpose
- Review corporate and project goals.
- Review and prioritize relevant services and applications to shape the migration path.
- Review Office 365 license models.
- Profile end users to rightsize licensing.
- Estimate dollar impact of new licensing model.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Corporate goals for Office 365.
- Prioritized migration path of applications.
- Decision on user licensing structure.
- Projected cost of licensing.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 1.1 | Outline corporate and project goals to paint the starting line. |
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| 1.2 | Review and prioritize services. |
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| 1.3 | Rightsize licensing. |
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Module 2: Assess Value, Readiness, and Risks
The Purpose
- Conduct value and readiness assessment of current on-premises services.
- Identify and evaluate risks and challenges.
- Assess IT’s readiness to own and manage Office 365.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Completed value and readiness assessment.
- Current targets for service and deployment models.
- List of perceived risks according to five major risk areas.
- Assessed IT’s readiness to own and manage Office 365.
- Established go/caution/stop for elected Office 365 services.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 2.1 | Assess value and readiness. |
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| 2.2 | Identify key risks. |
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| 2.3 | Identify changes in IT skills and roles. |
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Module 3: Mitigate Risks
The Purpose
- Review Office 365 risks and discuss mitigation strategies.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Completed risks and mitigation strategies report.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 3.1 | Build mitigation strategies. |
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| 3.2 | Identify key service requests. |
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| 3.3 | Build workflows. |
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Module 4: Build the Roadmap
The Purpose
- Build a timeline of major milestones.
- Plan and prioritize projects to bridge gaps.
- Build a communication plan.
- Review Office 365 strategy and roadmap.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Milestone roadmap.
- Critical path of milestone actions.
- Communication plan.
- Executive report.
| Activities: | Outputs: | |
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| 4.1 | Outline major milestones. |
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| 4.2 | Finalize roadmap. |
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| 4.3 | Build and refine the communication plan. |
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Onsite Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn’t enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our Project Workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a road map in place to complete your project successfully.
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