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Voluntary Action South Leicestershire (VASL) – Business Premium (Charity)

A local charity based in Market Harborough, providing services and projects to improve the lives of people in our community. These include support for family carers, older people who are lonely and isolated, providing volunteer transport to get people out and about, and activities and information to increase mental well-being. We are a volunteer-involving organisation and most of our work is delivered by trained volunteers.

Challenges

The customer had an aging end of life server, an expanding workforce that was becoming more distributed, and have plans to move site within a year.

Being a charity the customer needed any solutions to the issues to be as cost effective as possible.

Solution

Utilizing Office 365, we quoted for Charity Licensing for Office 365 Business Premium, and presented this as a solution to all their outstanding issues – we could remove the server from the network and not need to replace it, enable the users to work more collaboratively and make the site move (when needed) seamless.

Implementation/Process

Once the quote was accepted we project planned and managed the whole process.

The machines were migrated from the onsite domain to AzureAD, keeping their user profiles, so no data loss. The machines were setup to backup data to the cloud. The customers data was already in the cloud so no migration of that was needed. We then removed the server from the network fully.

Results/Benefits

The customer now has a network that has no end of life systems on it, utilising Office 365 enables them to have the latest Office products and security features available.

Charity licensing means that they get 10x free Business Premium Licenses, so costs are reduced significantly for them (versus a standard Office 365 Licensing plan).

Key Takeaways

  • Charity pricing for Office 365 system allows 10x free Business Premium and unlimited Business Basic licenses.
  • We managed the whole IT side of the project for the customer.
  • More security and better IT management for the customer.

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