Moving to the Cloud (O365, Azure, AWS)

iLink typically partners with organizations like yours to work on the following types of projects:

· Moving to the Cloud (O365, Azure, AWS) — Assessment & Readiness check, Plan and Migration

· Application development, Modernization and Maintenance : Strategic partnership to help with the right build vs buy decision making and core expertise in multiple technology stacks

· BI, Analytics, Visualization and Data Management — BI Health Assessment, BI tool Evaluation/Selection/Migration, Creating custom BI Reports/Dashboards/Scorecards and BI Performance tuning & Optimization

· QA & Testing — QA Consulting, Domain/Functional/Specialized Testing services, Performance & Load Testing and Automated QA

· Mobile application development

· IoT — Device Connectivity and Management, Operational Insight, Advanced Analytics and Data Visualization

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Office 365 SharePoint Migration

SharePoint Online delivers a single, unified location in the cloud where your people can easily cooperate with team members to exchange ideas and expertise, build custom team and project sites and solutions, finding organizational resources, or information search. You can also invite external users to view, share, and collaborate using extranet site groups. In SharePoint Online service, Instead of deploying and managing SharePoint internally, SharePoint Online gives you a complete hosted SharePoint experience. You and your business users have anywhere access to the rich collaboration, information management and business intelligence capabilities of SharePoint.

iLink helps Organizations Migrate from earlier versions of Microsoft Office, Collaboration and Communication Products to Office 365 to enhance their Productivity and Collaboration in a dynamic fashion.

Read More: http://www.ilink-systems.com/Solutions/Office-365-Solutions/Office-365-SharePoint-Migration

Lotus Notes to SharePoint and Office 365 Migration

Businesses migrate their Lotus Notes based Mail, Applications and Workflows to Exchange, SharePoint / Office 365 to transform an organization to become more agile, productive and cost-effective. Organizations are focused on making the most of their technology investment. Consolidating to a single vendor solution platform for email, collaboration, employee engagement within the organization has become a priority for most organizations that used Lotus Notes.  Increasingly organizations have started seeing Lotus Notes as an unnecessary expense that does not fit into their larger business strategy. Cost reduction through a single platform and readily available support for the platform from Microsoft are the drivers for organizations to migrate from Lotus Notes to SharePoint. This helps them avail improved functionality, attracting and retaining talented employees and becoming more nimble and connected.

At a high-level an organization gets the following business benefits through migration from Lotus Notes to SharePoint or Office 365:

• Cost Reduction through reducing user training and improving user productivity
• Capability enhancement through SharePoint FAST search, Tight integration with Office 365 and Microsoft Office apps and SharePoint Workflow templates that provide faster workflows than Lotus Notes.
• Consistent and Easier Workflows - Enhanced Workflow Platform as Microsoft has a Workflow foundation that works the same way across a range of products.
• Long term business strategy – facilitating business goals such as innovation, agility, mobility, attracting and retaining talent, mergers and acquisitions. Microsoft products clearly score over Lotus Notes in fast tracking these business goals.

iLink has helped organizations migrate from Lotus Notes to SharePoint and Office 365. iLink has successfully used migration tools like the Dell OnDemand Migration tool, Quest, AvePoint, MetaLogix Migration Manager and Microsoft’s Online Notes Inspector (MONTI).

iLink’s Migration methodology typically comprises of the following:

• Pre-migration analysis
• Migration strategy focusing on key facets such as
  • Gaining access to SharePoint features such as managed metadata and document sets
  • Using native web services, connect to SharePoint / Office 365 sites
  • Preserving the look and feel of Notes applications and cover Notes forms to Microsoft InfoPath list forms
  • Moving Notes data to SQL Server tables
  • Discovering Notes databases, analyzing how they are used and determine which applications are unused, as well as those applications that will need development
  • Using a customizable rules-based engine, specify target locations and migration jobs, hundreds of which can be migrated
  • Inhabit lists, libraries, sites and subsites based on existing Notes infrastructure
  • Maintain data fidelity when migrating rich text and complex application data, as well as preservation of data including keyword fields
  • Choice of document destinations beyond lists and libraries, including wiki pages, basic pages, and content publishing pages
  • For applications requiring custom form layouts, migrate Notes documents to InfoPath XML documents

iLink has migrated Lotus Notes Mail, Applications and Workflows to SharePoint using Quest for a Global Chemical Distributor and a Healthcare Insurance Provider. iLink has migrated complex Lotus Notes Mail, Applications and Workflows to SharePoint using MetaLogix Migration Manager for a global online retail platform.

iLink has created some standard pre-migration analysis and migration templates apart from a comparison matrix of using various migration tools. Through these templates and a standardized migration methodology iLink provides a faster turnaround as well as qualitative migration and support to various customers who migrate from Lotus Notes to SharePoint and Office 365.

Exchange Migration

iLink follows the Microsoft recommended Exchange Migration steps to plan and implement the Exchange Migration in an organized manner.

iLink analyzes the specific requirements of customers and recommends the appropriate Exchange Online migration and coexistence option:

Migration

• For non-Exchange systems, an IMAP-based tool to move email directly into the service.
• For organizations running Exchange on-premises, a more sophisticated tool can migrate the entire contents of Exchange mailboxes, including appointments, meeting requests, personal contacts, and tasks.

Coexistence

• Set up a simple coexistence that allows a staged migration with minimal impact to your on-premises infrastructure
• Set up rich Exchange coexistence – designed to support gradual migration to the cloud, or a period of long-term coexistence between Exchange Online and Exchange Server on-premises.  This coexistence approach provides advanced capabilities like sharing of free-busy data between on-premises and cloud users.

Microsoft Active Directory synchronization tool synchronizes the On-premise Active directory with Microsoft Online Directory Service to sync various services such as Exchange Online, Lync Online and SharePoint Online.  This results in the following customer benefits:

• Eliminates the need to manage users and groups in two places
• Powers unified global address list
• Simplifies user provisioning
• Enables rich coexistence scenarios

This means that when you add a new employee, delete a terminated employee, or change contact information, these changes are automatically propagated to the cloud, so you don’t have to do it manually.  These items become read-only in the cloud, and you continue to manage them with familiar tools in AD, the same way you do today.

The directory sync tool synchronizes changes every 3 hours.  To protect your security, it does not sync sensitive information, such as domain passwords.

Directory sync also keeps distribution groups and the global address list up-to-date automatically, and plays an important role when you run in coexistence mode between your local Exchange Server and Exchange Online.

Exchange Online provides a quick, low-impact option for moving from Exchange 2003 / 2007 to the cloud. This migration method is designed for customers who want to migrate their on-premise or 3rd party hosted Exchange 2003 and 2007 mailboxes into Exchange Online and who do not have complex requirements like coexistence, federation, off-boarding, etc.  Companies who have deployed Small Business Server 2003 or 2008 will also be beneficiaries of this feature.

iLink prepares an Exchange Migration strategy and a road map customized for specific organizations based on the following decision drivers:

• The number of mailboxes
• Current on-premises Exchange environment
• Would you like to implement Single Sign On?
• Mail Routing through on Premise Organization?
• User Management from On premise organization or Cloud?

iLink’s Hybrid Delivery Model, ability to implement Hybrid Migration and cost effective migration helps customers achieve faster turn around time with respect to Exchange Migration whilst continuing to retain their secure processes and augment them.

For more information, browse http://www.ilink-systems.com/Technology/office-365-exchange-migration