Growing Lack of Desired Features.

Your employees may have already complained about the lack of features and integrations in the older versions of Office, especially the AI-driven and collaboration-enhancing tools like Delve, Yammer, or Teams. The loss of productivity over time probably can’t be measured – unlike your employee’s dissatisfaction with their toolset.

Rising Troubleshooting Tickets.

As the systems get older, they need more and more patches and troubleshooting to maintain uptime. Troubleshooting ActiveSync, SSL Certificates, server incompatibilities, and more are getting more and more costly, time consuming, and downtown-inducing. The costs will only rise as time passes.

Rising Server Maintenance and Environment Costs.

Then there’s the physical maintenance of the server environment and the servers. The extra procedures, the security, the training, and utility costs… all of it adds up to a high infrastructure bill.

Increasing risks of downtime and failures.

The last thing you need is to face a permanent failure, risking data corruption or loss in all areas that rely on those systems. Downtime means lost business from emails that don’t get sent, documents which can’t be worked on, the intranet which can’t serve as a resource. All of that adds up.

Increasing difficulty justifying the cost savings.

And then there’s the difficulty in justifying the cost savings. It might have made sense 10 years ago to purchase a box and get years of use out of your license. Now, the extra expenses associated with maintaining Office on-prem quickly outpace the savings compared to moving to O365.

Remote Work Inefficiencies.

The sudden jump to remote work may be straining the limits of how well your existing apps work and scale… especially if your users need to be on VPN in order to work.

The Benefits of Migrating to Microsoft Office 365:

Fully Scalable Infrastructure

Microsoft 365 is a scalable, affordable alternative to expensive server environments and maintenance. And when you need to scale up or down, the transparent, flexible licensing makes it easy to do so without heavy penalties. So in an up economy or down, you will always be able to keep moving forward.

Modern Cloud Environment

With O365, your company can now work in ways your employees and customers already recognize and want: in the cloud. Your applications and data are seamlessly accessible from almost anywhere and safely backed up on the cloud, allowing your employees to work from anywhere and keep your business moving forward.

Rich Collaboration Capabilities

Digital transformation means working in ways that are agile and above all, collaborative. Microsoft Office 365 has many built-in and cross-application ways to collaborate. Whether it’s commenting in Teams, checking out files in SharePoint, connecting on Yammer, or easily finding files in Delve, O365 has you covered.

Go from Cost Center to Profit Center

Maintenance is easier with O365. That’s because unlike other alternatives, with O365 much of the heavy lifting is done for you. So your IT team can spend more time on value-added projects and less time “keeping the lights on”.

Aptude Gives You a Smooth Transition to O365… No Matter How You’d Like to Migrate

We simplify the process for any upgrade, migration, or implementation of Microsoft’s product suite by bringing nearly two decades of experience in delivering complex IT Solutions to our many satisfied clients. Your migration could take one of the following forms, depending on your unique situation:

Cutover Migration Model

In this model, we move everyone over at once: all the data, mailboxes, applications, and features to Office 365. This migration works well for organizations that don’t have a lot of content and data to move over.

Phased Migration Model

In the phased migration model, we migrate the solutions in smaller stages. This model is perfect for highly complex migrations with large amounts of data, integrations, features, and content.

Dual Migration Model

The dual migration model is a hybrid migration that distributes Microsoft services between on-premises and Office 635. This model is valuable for organizations that need to keep certain portions of the business on-premises due to compliance or governance reasons.

Brands You Trust Move Forward with Aptude.

With all the Microsoft Gold Partners you could choose from, why choose Aptude? Like many technology partners you’re probably looking at, we bring over 20 years of Microsoft experience to the table. Our global team has helped with migrations of all types. We’ve also simplified complex projects and executed on successful projects

Upgrades & Migrations

• Retain existing users, storage, and databases
• Modernize your services – cloud services, enhanced usability, and new features
• Employ enhanced security and data protection

Development & Integrations

• Custom application development and integration with other services
• Data transformation for platform compatibility
• Development of mobile applications

Implementation of Services

• New architecture and service delivery
• Setup users, backups, applications, and databases
• Migration and/or integration from existing platforms