Coats moves to Office 365 with Dell's Notes Migrator

26 Mar '14

4 min read

While the migration was in progress, Dell’s Coexistence Manager for Notes ensured users could continue to collaborate – send and receive emails, use meeting rooms, access shared resources, schedule recurring meetings – regardless of their migration status.

Even with some mailboxes of up to 30 gigabytes in size, Coats’ 7,500 users were migrated on schedule without disruption. The solutions reduced the cost of the project significantly by automating migration processes and delivering a solid return on investment.

ZeroIMPACT Migrations Mitigate Risks and Eliminate Impact on End Users

Notes Migrator for Exchange and Coexistence Manager for Notes are part of Dell Software’s portfolio of ZeroIMPACT migration and consolidation solutions that efficiently move and restructure user accounts, data and systems without impacting users or business productivity.

End users remain productive, with full access to mailboxes, calendars and public folders throughout the migration. This seamless coexistence eliminates the need for migration tasks after business hours, reducing administrator workload. To learn more about Dell’s ZeroIMPACT migration solutions, visit Dell booth #101 at MEC 2014, March 31 – April 2, in Austin, Texas.

Steve Dickson, senior vice president and general manager, Windows Migration and Management, Dell Software says, “The key to executing a successful migration – whether it’s to a new platform, the cloud, or as part of a merger or acquisition – is to assemble the right team.

“With the team of Microsoft, InfraScience and Dell Software, Coats was able to utilize our scalable, flexible migration solutions for a fast, seamless migration that maintained business continuity with very little impact on users. This teamwork is a perfect example of the way we use our expertise and customer-centric approach to work with our partners to quickly address customers’ unique business challenges.”

Richard Cammish, CIO, Coats plc says, “When you’re a global company operating in over 150 locations worldwide, moving to a new global technology platform is a complex task. We required solutions that would help meet our very tight project timescales and avoid any interruption to our business operations.

“The geographic distribution of our employees, compounded by low Internet bandwidth in some of the countries in which we operate added to the size of the challenge we faced. We are very pleased that working with Dell, InfraScience and Microsoft in a highly collaborative spirit, we were able to migrate users from multiple countries at the same time, meeting our objective of on-time project completion without disruption.”

Jeff Meyer, CEO, InfraScience, “Dell Software’s Notes migration tools meant we could assure Coats would be able to hit their deadline with no problem – and we did.”

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