Tekmar Started Moving  

…Clients away from antiquated systems in 2012 and completed the migration to Office 365 in couple years.  Here in an article from the time machine.  

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 <strong>Microsoft office 2003 and Windows XP have been a great resource, </strong>second nature, for many computer users and an economical business tool since the very early part of the 21st century.  Everyone is familiar and if it is not broken… la la la. 

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But the fact is that to compete effectively the business needs the best people, following the right processes and the right modern tools. The time to make the move is now for many reasons.  Tekmar helps by assisting with planning training and implementation of features and services that mean greater productivity and profit. Information Week’s Larry Seltzer discussed some of the details in his article yesterday.    

 <strong>Since its launch in 2006, Google Apps has been a good way </strong>to get email and other services on a custom domain. This is especially true of the free version, which included Gmail, Google Calendar, Google’s online word processing and spreadsheet apps and more. 

<strong>But last December Google discontinued the free edition</strong>. This might have not been a big deal for business users, according to Google, since most businesses would quickly hit the limitations of the free edition. But customers considering Google Apps for Business, the premium version, now have reason to look seriously at the alternatives. The most prominent competitor is Microsoft’s Office 365. 

<strong>My own personal domain (larryseltzer.com)</strong> has for many years been with Google Apps for Business — in fact, when I first adopted it the service was called Google Apps Premier. For a number of reasons I recently decided to migrate it to Office 365. In a future story I’ll discuss how that went and what lessons I learned — but for now I’ll compare both products and explain why I believe Office 365 has the edge for business users. 

Microsoft’s offerings include [SharePoint], Lync, and Exchange in the cloud. All of these services have vast third-party add-on and professional services ecosystems (yes, even Lync). And it doesn’t stop at the cloud; one of the best things about Office 365 is that it has… 

Quoted from http://www.informationweek.com/software/enterprise-applications/google-apps-to-office-365-why-to-switch/240154193