The client was undergoing extensive internal restructuring, right-sizing staffing and migrating services to the cloud to reduce costs and mitigate risks.  The Office 365 was selected as the premium marketplace leader, with rich functionality that could be scaled with simplicity.  A fully cloud-based environment was supportive to restructuring and streamlining of the internal IT department, and facilitating outsourced and off-shore support.

Primary objective was to migrate the historical mail, and configurations intact in a manner that mitigated extended downtime, whilst right-sizing mailbox/user counts to reduce OPEX costs.  Secondary objectives were directed towards utilizing the additional feature functionality and integration available within the Microsoft Office 365 technology ecosphere.

Primary challenges were resultant to internal restructuring creating dynamically changing requirements and implementation strategies.  Extensive analysis of existing configurations was required to ensure the new platform was provisioned for the company’s future and decoupled from legacy complexities.  Secondary challenges were driven by cost control and budgetary planning and multiple analyses performed for short-term and long-term change.