Case Study – Office 365 Migration for Richard Heath and Associates for 300+ Users
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RHA Inc. Success Story
RHA Inc, headquartered in Fresno, CA provides outreach program design and management to energy utilities, healthcare, and telecommunications industries. RHA established innovative programs to help families conserve energy, and created California’s first Low Income Energy Efficiency (LIEE) program. RHA has steadily advanced energy efficiency for the mass market, improving the quality of life for nearly 13 million Californians. The company was incorporated in 1979 and now operates in five California offices with over 400 employees.
Ed Bell, Chief Information Officer
The Challenges
RHA Inc. has used on-premise Kerio Connect email solution for many years. Although RHA was generally satisfied with their technology solutions, they still faced some challenges. Some of their email challenges were speed issues for users with large mail box sizes, the email retention policy, and synching emails, contacts and calendar between the Outlook and various mobile devices. Many of RHA employees are not used to Kerio Connect’s web mail interface and wanted the familiar Microsoft Exchange. The RHA IT team was spending more time maintaining hardware, software licenses, patches, and updates than providing real solutions to help their business.
RHA Inc. considered purchasing, managing and hosting an Exchange Server. When RHA contacted Microsoft about Office 365, they were referred to eSudo Technology Solutions (“eSudo”), a Microsoft Certified Partner.
What did eSudo do for RHA Inc.?
Convinced that cloud-based services could help meet their present challenges, RHA decided to transition from Kerio Connect to Microsoft Exchange Online via Office 365. With over 400 users in five different locations, they were concerned with minimizing the impact on their staff, moving their data without loss or downtime, and keeping their help desk operations from getting too many requests. RHA turned to eSudo because of eSudo’s expertise in working with Exchange Online via © eSudo Technology Solutions www.eSudo.com 408-216-5800 Office 365, and Kerio Connect Email system. eSudo helped RHA in the planning, design and migration of RHA’s emails, contacts and calendars over to Office 365.
eSudo’s Cloud migration services included:
- Provisioning the Office 365 tenant,
- Configuring a pilot group of users to test Office 365,
- Planning the migration of users by different departments,
- Assisting with licensing and selecting the Office 365 plan,
- Verifying domains and DNS setup, including the spam filtering,
- Migrating Kerio email, calendar and contacts data to Exchange Online,
- Creating documentation and configuration guide for Windows 7 and MacOS Outlook client,
- Configuring iPhone, Andrioid and iPad for mobile access to email and calendars.
The Benefits
The benefits of moving to Office 365 include:
- Increase in productivity and operating efficiency due to improved collaboration and ease of anytime, anywhere access to emails, calendars and company data.
- All major communication services provided at a fixed monthly subscription fee, giving predictable IT costs.
- All major and critical communication services include SLA of 99.9 % and disaster recovery by Microsoft.
Now, here is what you could do
If your company is considering moving to Office 365 Cloud services, contact Matthew Kaing at eSudo (www.eSudo.com) at 408-216-5800. Or if you like to like explore other cloud services, schedule a free cloud assessment.