Dell helps Coca-Cola Bottling Company United migrate 1,100 users to Office 365 in one weekend

Coca-Cola Bottling Company United, Inc. (CCBCU) selected Dell’s Notes migration solutions to seamlessly migrate 1,100 user mailboxes and 2 terabytes of data from IBM Notes to Microsoft Office 365. This migration was completed over a single weekend with no disruption to end user productivity. Working with Microsoft and InfraScience, a member of Dell’s PartnerDirect program, CCBCU used Dell’s Migrator for Notes to Exchange, Coexistence Manager for Notes and MessageStats solutions to achieve a cost-effective, fast and easy migration, resulting in less time spent on day-to-day administration.

Founded in 1902, CCBCU is one of 200 Coca-Cola bottlers around the world, including 70 bottlers in North America. It is the third-largest bottler of Coca-Cola products in the United States. The company was running IBM Notes and Domino, along with Notes applications, but needed to move to a common platform to better align and collaborate with the more than 250,000 contacts in the Coca-Cola family worldwide. Additionally, the company wanted to maintain co-existence with Notes applications, Blackberry support in the cloud, and Microsoft Lync migration from IBM Sametime.

Fast, seamless migration from IBM Notes to Office 365 accomplished with zero impact to end users
The migration of user mailboxes and 2 terabytes of data to a hybrid Office 365 environment while maintaining coexistence for Notes applications had to be completed over one weekend and ensure no disruption to end user productivity. Working with Dell, InfraScience and Microsoft, employees finished work on Friday using Notes, and returned on Monday to use Office 365 Outlook. Dell Software’s automated solutions delivered a significant return on investment, and the migration allowed for a reduced cost of ownership, better uptime and less day-to-day administration. A simple end-user learning curve was an added bonus that saved both time and money for CCBCU.

ZeroIMPACT solutions achieve migrations with minimal risk and no disruption to end users
Migrator for Notes to Exchange, Coexistence Manager for Notes and MessageStats are part of Dell Software’s portfolio of ZeroIMPACT migration and consolidation solutions that efficiently move and restructure user accounts, data and systems without impacting users or business productivity. End users remain productive, with full access to mailboxes, calendars and public folders throughout the migration. This seamless coexistence eliminates the need for migration tasks after business hours and also reduces administrator workload.