ThyssenKrupp Elevator has more than 33,000 employees distributed globally with local IT departments operating their own on-premises email environments. This meant the subsidiary had 18 separate Source environments from which it needed to migrate mailboxes to Office 365. Overhead for the local installation of a migration tool in each environment would have greatly increased project costs, which led orange networks to look for a SaaS-based solution with no on-prem hardware or installations needed.
In addition, the complexity of migrating a subsidiary with this many individual Exchange instances in separate countries meant orange networks spent a significant amount of time consulting with and planning for the migration. This included performing trial migrations to test data transfer speeds, understanding how local firewalls interacted with the migration solution, and planning for technical support throughout the duration of the project.
With the help of MigrationWiz and BitTitan technical partner strategists, orange networks completed the migration of over 33,000 subsidiary employees from their local Source environments to Office 365 in just five months – with minimal escalations post-cutover from end users.
orange networks selected MigrationWiz for several reasons. As a solution entirely based in the cloud, MigrationWiz requires no on-prem installations or hardware installed at the Source environment, reducing the time and complexity required to configure the project – in this case, saving orange networks from having to touch all 18 Source environments individually.
The SaaS architecture and central management console enabled orange networks to manage this global project and migrate users around the clock, increasing overall migration speeds and simplifying the transition to Office 365. Because of the success of this migration, orange networks is now in talks with the customer for additional migration projects with user numbers in the tens of thousands.