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Don’t wait until it’s too late
Why do I need a partner to help with migration?
Perhaps you don’t, but by working with a partner you can give your organisation the best chance for a successful move.
Teams brings a range of benefits and additional features that will improve collaboration and communication in your organisation, however, sometimes it’s not just about the technology, but the planning and future use of the technology. Some of the activities that might be included are a Change & Adoption plan in line with your separate migration approach. Another recommended activity would be building the relevant high-level or low-level design documentation considering things such as your advanced workloads and the requirements that these may have. If you do not have the internal skills to review or do this internally there are organizations like Exactive that can help.
We follow a repeatable framework based approach to accelerate your deployment, provide consistent results and avoid common pitfalls.

Migration Options
TeamsAssessment
We will help to define the migration path to ensure you have considered the co-existence modes, and build a tailored migration plan. This helps to make sure that Teams Phone System will meet your expectations when you do make the move.

Teams Governance Design
Teams brings a whole host of new collaboration features that other solutions like Skype for Business don’t have. Governance design helps you to understand your options for policies to control and govern teams and channels, as well as making sure your environment is secure and compliant.

Teams Voice Pilot
If you’re migrating from Skype for Business, or another solution, to Teams but haven’t yet enabled Voice, this is a great chance to test out Teams Phone System. We offer a Teams Voice pilot for 90 days to test the capabilities and make sure that it fits with your requirements.

CloudUCX™ Calling Service
Skype for Business Online Retirement FAQs
Currently, Microsoft has no plans to schedule upgrades for enterprise customers. Customers can choose to move to Teams as it makes sense for their organizations before the July 31, 2021 retirement date for Skype for Business Online.
Success Story
After a nationwide lockdown, Frazer-Nash decided to roll out Microsoft Teams as their main phone system, using Exactive’s CloudUCX™ Direct Routing solution to allow external calls for their remote workforce and as a future-proof plan for mobile phones.
Success Story
With a change in office location and plans to modernise ways of working, believe housing chose Exactive’s CloudUCX™ solution to deliver Teams with telephony which allowed them to get up and running quickly and effectively.