Migrate to Google Apps Email from Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Novell Groupwise or other mail servers.
- Initial assessment option to assess suitability without affecting existing Mail Server
- Develop technical and user migration plan with your IT team
- Fixed price migration packages for most scenarios
Google Apps Email Migration
Ancoris is the UK's leading Google Enterprise Partner for Google Apps. We provide a migration program and service designed to support organisations looking to deploy Google Apps Premier Edition as their hosted email service. We have expertise in leading email platforms from Microsoft, IBM/Lotus, Novell and others, so we are well placed to assist you in the migration.
See which companies have already "Gone Google". Ancoris provides fixed price migration packages for most scenarios, ask for a quotation or ask for a technical specialist to contact you to discuss your interest or arrange an evaluation.
Phases
Google Apps Email Migration Program Overview
This service migrates the customer from their existing legacy mail server (e.g. Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, Novell Groupwise) to Google Apps Email with the interactive assistance of experienced Google Apps technical specialists. The service has variants suitable for small businesses, mid-market and distributed Enterprise customers.
- Managed transition
- Suitability Assessment stage allows go/no go decision
- Deployment process allowing staged transition from existing mail-server(s)
- User training programs
- Ongoing support and education options
Suitability
Stage 1 - Google Apps Activation and Email Suitability Assessment
The Ancoris Suitability Assessment service provisions and configures a standalone Google Apps Premier Account and configures up to 10 email addresses on your company domain with dual delivery to both your existing mail-server* and to Google Apps Email. This allows you to assess the suitability of Google Apps Email without affecting your corporate email.
- Google Apps Premier Account provisioning
- Technical Workshop to define assessment goals and criteria
- Selection of target users for the assessment process
- Set-up and deployment for initial 2-3 IT users (including administrators)
- Introduction to support processes
- Further roll-out to 10 users provisioned with dual delivery to Google Apps Email (mail forwarding *)
- Webinar training (by Cloud Skills) for assessment users to cover core Google Apps Email and Calendar features
- Review teleconference or meetings after week 1 and 2 of Assessment process.
- Workshop to review Assessment results (week 3)
- Draft plan of potential full migration (week 4)
Initial Deploy
Stage 2 - Google Apps Email Initial Deployment
Following a successful Suitability Assessment the customer decides to proceed with deployment of Google Apps Email, the next stage is an initial deployment with a representative sample of users to assess any specific factors to be considered in the full deployment. Initial deployment users are migrated to Google Apps Email.
- Migration of representative sample users to Google Apps Email
- Mail-flow testing and MX record change
- Email routing established for email between Google Apps and Legacy Email Users
- LDAP User provisioning to Google Apps
- Contact and Calendar Migration
Full Deploy (SME)
Either Stage 3 - Google Apps Full Deployment (Small and Medium Business)
Following the initial deployment the experience is assessed and the project plan for the final user migration is put in place. A communication plan is put in place, the users are migrated and trained in the new Google Apps Suite.
- Migration of all remaining users to Google Apps Email
- Training for all users
- Historical Email Data Migration or Archiving (**)
- Legacy Mail-server can be decommissioned
Full Deploy (Enterprise)
Or Stage 3 - Google Apps Full Deployment (Enterprise accounts)
For larger Enterprise accounts who may have multiple mail-servers, internet gateways and distributed user groups a phased approach may be necessary. By fronting the Google Apps Email service with the advanced intelligent routing capabilities of either Google Message Discovery or Google Message Security, the migration process can be phased more easily. This also allows a more comprehensive and granular email security policy to be deployed
- Migration of all remaining users to Google Apps Email in multiple phases
- Set up and configuration of advanced email security policy with Google Message Security (or including archiving with Google Message Discovery)
- Training for all users
- Historical Email Data Migration or Archiving (**)
- Legacy Mail-server can be decommissioned
Support
Post-deployment - Support and User Training
For Google Apps Administrators:
Ancoris provides on-going telephone support services providing direct access to experienced Google Apps consultants.
For End Users:
Ancoris provides end-user training services delivered by Cloud Skills trainers in short one-hour sessions over web conference.
Customers can also subscribe to the Cloud Skills Academy e-learning resource for on-going support of end-users as they use Google Apps Docs, Sites and Email.
* For mail-servers supporting auto-forwarding to external contacts
** Customers can choose to migrate historical data into Google Apps Email, to leave in the legacy mail-server or to ingest into Google's Archiving Service (Google Message Discovery). Data migration is an optional extra for Ancoris standard migration services.
