If you are looking at upgrading, migrating, and deploying Office 365 for your business, completing a successful transition is not an easy task. Here we take a brief look at what it takes to support a successful Office 365 migration.
Cloud Support
Transitioning to Office 365 involves making a move from on-premises Office tools to the cloud. With Office 365 providing an ever-growing ecosystem of cloud services, it is important to understand the main cloud challenges to simplify the move to the cloud.
The move to Office 365 requires a move from client-based to cloud-based applications, which needs stakeholders’ awareness and engagement early on in the transitioning process.
Firstly, develop an understanding of the process an create an effective internal adoption roadmap with clear policies for usage, security, and management of content.
The next step is to decide which Office 365 features are likely to be deployed and adopted by business teams. Take into account your business needs, the user experience, the support levels, as well as any data compliance and privacy requirements.
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Feature Deployment
The benefit of Office 365 is the enhanced flexibility and mobility thanks to the cloud. Transitioning to Office 365 is ideal for businesses that actively use sharing and collaboration tools in their daily activities from multiple business locations and via remote teams.
Your business can securely access all the information and tools it needs from any device, at any time. This is the distinct advantage of Office 365. Its applications integrate easily to offer seamless functionality across the board.
For example, Office 365 includes the Microsoft Teams, where teams can collaborate on projects in a secure chat-based digital workspace environment while integrating with other applications such as Skype for Business to participate in voice and video conferences.
Consider piloting new features and functionality on a group of users from different business locations before fully rolling out the new applications. This way you can further encourage Office 365 adoption and spread its usage to all departments inside the organisation.
Most importantly, Office 365 addresses various modern business challenges, including enterprise mobility, enhanced data security, privacy and compliance, which benefit from Microsoft’s established cloud ecosystem.
Office 365 integrates cloud, mobile, and social technology solutions to make your business more collaborative and productive.
