Lewis Stores move to the cloud

Learn how our clients cut costs, consolidated resources and ramped up their productivity by migrating to the Cloud.

Year:

2017
Industry:
Retail
Organisation Size:
Large (999+ employees)

Products and Services:

Migration to Office 365
Training / Workshop

Case Studies

Lewis Stores

When you’re a national retailer with hundreds of stores nationwide, server replacement is a significant capital expenditure. A cloud solution negates the purchase of new hardware while it has many additional benefits any business can benefit from.

Business Problem

Lewis Stores had an aging mail server in need of an upgrade. At the same time, they sought to increase collaboration amongst employees to increase productivity, increase data security with the increase of ransomware attacks globally, and decrease CAPEX, all while ensuring business continuity.

The Solution

The recommendation by Crimson Line to solve this one problem within the Lewis Stores ICT environment, was Office 365 as it met all the requirements.

Process

Through consultation with Lewis Stores’ contracted service provider and Lewis Stores’ management, Crimson Line was able to define “the WHY, WHAT and WHO” to ensure the best cloud strategy was implemented. The WHY considers the motivations for the business, applications used, technology needs, process management and governance requirements. The WHAT ensures that each of the afore-mentioned is done with optimization in mind. The WHO considers what impact will be seen during and after the process by users and clients.

Deliverables

Office 365 readiness assessment

Hybrid Exchange Migration to Office 365

Technical training of contracted service provider to manage the Hybrid Exchange

Drive user adoption through workshops

Key Customer Benefits

  • Scalable solution
  • Increased reliability
  • Reduced local server footprint
  • Reduced IT cost through eliminating server maintenance
  • No downtime during migration
  • User adoption through training

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