Migrating to Microsoft Office 365 for Schools is Now as Easy as 1, 2, 3

Manchester, United Kingdom, July 15, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Trusted school ICT provider RM Education (RM) and migration specialists CloudMigrator365 have joined forces to make it easy for schools to move over to the new Microsoft Office 365 service, which is free for educational establishments, by reducing many of the financial and time barriers normally faced by schools when migrating over from older systems.

Julian Desert, VP of Business Development at CloudMigrator365 explained, “Our agreement with RM offers schools a compelling reason to make the move to Office 365 today and away from limited messaging platforms. Our tool seamlessly moves organisations from legacy systems to Office 365 with zero user downtime. Without doubt, it’s the best way to quickly migrate to Office 365.”

Microsoft Office 365 productivity tools are freely available to UK schools, giving access to a number of familiar applications anytime, anywhere (including Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote). Despite free availability, many schools have been put off migrating to Office 365 because of the likely cost and time involved with moving over from older systems.

Andy Webb, Cloud Solutions Manager at RM added, “This agreement means that we can now use just one tool to migrate schools to Office 365 with the minimum of disruption and cost. CloudMigrator365 coupled with RM’s extensive knowledge of Office 365 means that we can now deliver an end-to-end solution for schools from planning and migration right through to any customisation, support and training needs.

“We chose CloudMigrator365 after evaluating a number of products because we believe it offers the most flexible and cost-effective migration solution,” Andy said.

As part of the agreement, CloudMigrator365 has trained up a number of RM engineers in the use of its migration tool and has helped RM develop test rigs to ensure schools can fully benefit from the new arrangement.

“Office 365 is an important tool for schools,” concluded RM’s Andy Webb. “It is one of the applications supported by our RM Unify platform that offers a single-sign-on system, application library and management console designed specifically for education. CloudMigrator365 will ensure that we can provide an easy and safe transition, whatever e-mail platform a school is currently using.”