making sense of the cloud w/ office 365
DESCRIPTION
If you're like most businesses you probably know that you'd benefit from cloud, but inundated with too much information to take the next step. Making sense of cloud, the various manufacturers and offerings, and how and when to transition to cloud is not so easy. In fact, it can be very confusing and even misleading. In the last three years, we've helped over 100 small to medium businesses make the journey to cloud and now UTG and Microsoft have packaged all this learning for you into a free two hour lunch and learn event!TRANSCRIPT
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Making Sense of the Cloud
Sponsored by:
Please help yourself to lunch. The presentation will begin at 12:00pm
June 2014
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Agenda ü Cloud discussion
ü Leveraging the Office 365 solution
ü UTG + Office 365
ü How to plan your transition to the cloud
ü Cloud services deployment lessons
ü Next steps
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What is this Cloud?
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Why Choose Cloud?
Technical Triggers
• Hardware and software refresh
• Need redundancy or disaster recovery options
• Management: Simplify, but stay in control
Business & Operational
Triggers
• Capacity and performance issues
• Scale on demand • Improved
accessibility • Financial flexibility • Match IT strategy
to business strategy
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Why Microsoft Office 365?
o Enterprise-grade reliability with SLA
o Privacy of data on the platform is maintained
o All services work together
o Microsoft is responsible for the underlying server components
Business-Class Email
File Sharing
Anywhere Access
Automatic Data Backup
SLA
Privacy Protection
Full Office Suite
Collaboration
o Office is always up-to-date
o Use Office on up to 5 devices
o Everything you need in one place, across all devices
o Sync files to devices for offline viewing and editing
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UTG Client Expectations
ü Radically Great Client Experience • Our clients benefit from—and recognize—a collaborative experience with us
that exceeds demands and expectations, without exception.
ü Strategic Lens • In every situation, we look first to understand, support and promote why we
do what we do, then how to best do it. In that way, what we offer will be driven by strategy, not by tactics and implementation.
ü Brilliantly Executed Expertise • Every individual at UTG works from a center of excellence.
ü We foster that with a culture devoted to learning, growth and teamwork.
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UTG + Microsoft Office 365
Business-class Email
Collaboration
File Sharing
Anywhere Access
Automatic Data Backup
SLA
Privacy Protection
Enablement & Support Services
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Cloud Transition Plan
Phase I
Cloud Readiness Assessment
Phase II
Cloud Services Pilot
Phase III
Cloud Services Migration
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Lessons Learned
ü Ensure all line of business applications/devices are supported for integration with cloud solutions
ü Complete cloud readiness assessment
ü Complete pilot to ensure functionality and features of the solution meet business requirements
ü Collaborate with partner regarding migration options and strategies
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Next Steps
Engage UTG to discuss a customized cloud strategy for your business
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