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  • Fast track Office 365 migrations by Microsoft pose some challenges for partners

    Microsoft’s announcement that they intended to accelerate the on-boarding (migration) of customer seats to Office 365 through the “FastTrack” program surprised some attending the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) last month. Apparently the idea is that Microsoft will hire (or has already hired) between 250 and 600 new employees to take…

  • Migration more complex than a simple methodology might indicate

    Thinking about Microsoft’s new FastTrack 3-stage “sales and deployment methodology” for Office 365 projects, which aims to accelerate the rate that customers can move to their new cloud tenant domains (“to advance from pilot to deployment”). The new methodology is intended to allow Microsoft to compete better with Google as…