Lewis Stores move to the cloud
Lewis is Southern Africa’s single largest furniture brand which sells a range of household furniture, electrical appliances and home electronics. When you’re a national retailer with hundreds of stores nationwide, server replacement is a significant capital expenditure. An Office 365 Online 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 ageing 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, while ensuring business continuity.
The Office 365 Online Solution
Therefore the recommendation by Crimson Line to solve this one problem within the Lewis Stores ICT environment, was Office 365 Online as it met all the requirements.
Process
Crimson Line defined “the WHY, WHAT and WHO”. The WHY considers the motivations for the business, applications used, technology needs, process management and governance requirements. Also the WHAT ensured that each of the afore-mentioned was done with optimisation in mind. Hence lastly 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
Therefore increased drive of user adoption through workshops
Key Office 365 Online Customer Benefits
- Scalable solution
- Increased reliability
- Reduced local server footprint
- Reduced IT cost through eliminating server maintenance
- Therefore no downtime during migration
- User adoption through training
