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Microsoft 365 services and consultancy to guide your digital change management
Managing your Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365) change will set you on a path to successful digital transformation. Content+Cloud’s Microsoft 365 services and consultancy can help you create a platform for your organisation that’s secure and agile, with solutions tailored to your objectives and infrastructures that create a happier, more connected and more productive workforce.
Why organisations move to Microsoft 365
Connecting workers across multiple locations, streamlining and automating processes, protecting data that’s accessed off-site, understanding uptake and responding to change – these are all made simple by Microsoft 365 if you’ve got the right plan deployed in the right way for your business.
At Content+Cloud we help with Microsoft 365 change management projects of all scales and complexities. For example, we work with smaller, nimble businesses who are in a hurry to get up and running with productivity and collaboration solutions via Microsoft 365 for business plans (formerly Office 365 for business). For large enterprises we’ve helped guide workplace modernisation projects, exploring their core business goals and mapping out how Office apps and Microsoft 365 services can help them achieve them.
Regardless of your type of your organisation, our starting point is to listen and learn. We’ll then work with you to plan a route towards lasting digital transformation and continual improvement.
Prepare to migrate
We’ll run workshops to explore your reasons for change. If you need to move legacy systems to the cloud, we can assess your readiness and work out a plan with you that will migrate, roll out and retire services at a pace that suits you.
The right technology and solutions
Every business has different goals. We’ll help design services aligned with your aims, with apps developed and configured by technology and solutions architects who live+breathe Microsoft 365.
Improved adoption
No matter whether it’s a single app or an entire platform, if you’re changing how your people work, then you’ll need them on board. As Prosci-accredited experts in managing business change, we’ll help you understand how people work individually and collectively, allowing you to shape services that work for them and clear the way to smooth adoption.
A leader in Microsoft 365 change management
Content+Cloud was the launch partner for Microsoft 365 (then known as Office 365) in the UK and is one of the country’s most awarded Microsoft Partners. With four Microsoft MVPs (Most Valued Professionals), we’ll bring deep knowledge of new and future Microsoft technologies to your project.
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How Content+Cloud’s Microsoft 365 services can help you
At Content+Cloud we have extensive experience of helping organisations modernise their workplaces. This breadth of projects, coupled with our close partnership with Microsoft, has allowed us to develop a range of Microsoft 365 consultancy services to meet the needs of most organisations.
But we’ll always begin by working with you to understand your business and your people. You may be fostering a culture of innovation to give you a competitive edge. Or perhaps you’re considering cloud technologies for the first time but aren’t sure how to make it work across departmental siloes. We can dig deep into the issues and work out how best we can support you. Here are just a few of the ways we can do this.
Microsoft 365 Roadmap
We’ll help you prepare for successful transition to Microsoft 365 with our roadmap activities.
- Define objectives, strategy and pace
- Assess your readiness for cloud migration
- Plan the right time for implementation of Microsoft 365 services – balancing business need and technical complexity and dependencies
- Architectural advice and guidance
- Educate key technical stakeholders
Service design and planning
We’ll design a model and means of operating that allows your people, processes and services to work in harmony.
- Review your current operations
- Create a target operating model
- Create IT services that are flexible to changing digital requirements
- User research to underpin your design principles
- Change management and user adoption services aligned with Prosci methodology
Implementation
Our implementation services go beyond technical design, rollout and migration. We also offer expert solution design to ensure the right information architecture is in place, custom development where required and professional business change and adoption services. Our typical Microsoft 365 implementations include:
- Migration from legacy systems such as Exchange, file servers, document management systems and legacy phone systems
- Planned and joined-up enablement of Microsoft 365 services including Teams, Viva, SharePoint and Power Platform
- Deployment of hybrid working solutions such as Microsoft Teams Room systems, incorporating visionary functionality like Front Row view
- Configuration of Microsoft 365 to comply with regulatory and contractual requirements to ensure a secure deployment
- Rollout of core and advanced security functionality to provide a secure-by-default, zero-trust environment, with additional controls balancing ease of use while still providing the best of Microsoft’s suite
- Integration with your existing applications to ensure they work with Microsoft 365 – for example, by allowing your business to take advantage of functionality in Teams to provide employees with access to core tools and data in one place
Governance and compliance
Our specialism in Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security will help you plan and implement solutions that are watertight and compliant with legislation such as GDPR.
- Enterprise mobility management
- Advanced data governance
- Data loss prevention
- Cloud app security
- Advanced threat analytics
- Identity and access management
Innovation
We can prepare you for the arrival of new Microsoft 365 features that will drive your continual improvement.
- Microsoft Viva: integrate learning content, intelligent topic-based search suggestions and Workplace Analytics into Teams and SharePoint
- Microsoft SharePoint Syntex: a solution to document classification that makes it possible to use AI to classify and extract content from files, allowing your organisation’s information to become visible and easier to find and complex processes to be automated
- Digital insights: our managed service gives you access to a Content+Cloud service owner who’ll give you early knowledge of upgrades and new products that could benefit your organisation
Managed Desktop
Microsoft Managed Desktop (MMD) ensures your employees can access their work from any device quickly and securely. Free your workforce to be its best, wherever it may be.
- Immersion workshop on MMD
- Technical remediation
- Business case development
- End-to-end services
- Complimentary security operations centre support
Content+Cloud is the UK’s leading FastTrack-ready Microsoft 365 Partner
We’re one of a few authorised Microsoft 365 partners that can support organisations with FastTrack implementations and migrations. What does this mean? We’re able to manage any Microsoft FastTrack resources directly for you, so you have one central project manager, who directly controls all resources within your migration project.
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