When you have real-time data streams, like satellite tracking, and so much other real-time data, the cost to recover and rebuild that data is high. A one hour system outage can require several hours to rebuild/restore operations and recreate lost data. In the meantime, the rest of the business starts falling behind.One of our TMW clients with a fleet of under 200 trucks quanitfied the cost of a system outage at $50,000 per hour.

 Great! You're ready to make the investment and migration to Office 365. Where do you start?

There are three major kinds of deployment and integration approaches when it comes to Office 365. We've seen the number of users and mailbox size are the primary drivers to determine which deployment strategy to use.

Moving and updating a business system can cause a lot of anxiety within an organization and as an administrator, you want to get ahead of all the questions that come along with migrating systems. More specifically with Office 365, the flexibility to subscribe to one or multiple services to acquire certain functionality requires greater knowledge of your existing and future system. Microsoft has changed the service bundling, discounts and tiering rapidly as it changed to market conditions to increase adoption.

Has your organization considered migrating to Office 365 but the timing hasn't been right or you're having a tough time justifying the implementation? With the Office 365 Series, we'll take you through some key areas of consideration and implementation with Microsoft's strong push to move businesses to this subscription-based model.

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Step 1: Self Assess

If you are interested in seeing what a managed services provider can do for your organization it is best practice to first conduct a self-assessment of your current IT capability. This will allow you to compare your internal cost and quality to a provider's offering.

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