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Breaking point? Or a springboard for transformation?

Turn change to your advantage with Avanade.
Periods of IT transition are inevitable in today’s fast evolving markets. That’s why the smartest businesses use points of transformation as a springboard to propel their business forward. That increasingly includes exploring the huge cost, collaboration and agility advantages offered by moving IT services to the cloud – or considering a hybrid cloud and on-premise approach.
See how we helped Aviva and KoneCranes deploy Online Services

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A survey of 500 C-level executives across 17 countries conducted by Avanade in September 2009 showed only 37% of respondents had no plans to adopt cloud computing. That number had declined dramatically from 54% when we conducted the first survey in January 2009. Read more about the survey results.
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Get the facts

The Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite is a great, low-risk way to test the benefits of an online model. It moves key messaging and collaboration tools to an easily scalable, subscription-based on-demand service.
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The Avanade Advantage

Avanade is one of the few organisations that can successfully take you through the entire transition to online services, with specialties in infrastructure, directory design, messaging and content migration, as well as Microsoft SharePoint customisation and solution integration. We can also help you weigh up the advantages of adopting a hybrid approach to the cloud – and make the decision that will deliver the best results for your business.
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Right Time to Move Online Calculator

Are you in the best position to take advantage of the business upturn and get the best from your IT investments?

This short, self-assessment tool is designed to determine if the time is right for you to move and benefit from Microsoft’s cloud-based services, delivered by Avanade.

Under the pressure to reduce costs, improve communications and achieve real dynamic scalability many companies are moving to cloud-based computing. In particular, moving messaging and collaboration systems to hosted online services can reduce operational and capital costs, while improving your productivity and business agility.

To receive an analysis of the potential savings for your company, based on the experience of our customers, please complete all of the answers in the tool. Register your contact details at the end and we will email you a copy of the results.

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CAPABILITIES
1. Which elements does your email and collaboration solution need to cover? [Tick all that apply]





CAPACITY
2. How many users do you have?



3. Do you think you have challenges with your current platform?

COLLABORATION
4. What is the average mailbox size of your users?



5. How many collaboration solutions do you have?



6. What is the average size of your collaboration sites?



7. How many sites on average do you have?


CURRENT PLATFORM
8. What email and collaboration platform do you currently use? (Select the main option that applies)



9. Do you use a distributed or centralized model?


10. How many servers support your email and collaboration solution?



11. How many Full-Time Equivalent specialists are needed to support your email and collaboration solution?



12. Is your present email and collaboration solution outsourced?


REDUNDANCY AND AVAILABILITY
13. Do you have corporate regulatory policies regarding archiving and retention?



14. Do you currently have a secondary redundant data centre to ensure the availability of services?



15. How often do you experience unplanned downtime in your email and collaboration solution?


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