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Dell Software Solutions Help Coca-Cola Bottling Company United Migrate 1,100 Users to Office 365 in One Weekend(ENP Newswire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) ENP Newswire - 15 October 2014 Release date- 14102014 - Round Rock, Texas -Dell Software today announced that 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. Supporting Quotes: Michael Tweddle, executive director, product management, Dell Software 'Coca-Cola Bottling Company United chose Microsoft Office 365 to enable enterprise- level communication technology throughout their facility. Teaming with InfraScience and Microsoft enabled us to help them make the move quickly, without a hitch. Dell has migrated well over 50 million mailboxes over the span of the last decade, and our solutions accelerate the time to project completion while minimizing the costs and risks of a migration and user disruption. ' Michael Neighbors, Director of IT, Coca-Cola Bottling Company United 'The weekend cutover went exactly as planned, and our employees were able to come to work on Monday with Office 365 up and running. The migration was seamless and simple and has achieved our primary objective of improving our collaboration systems and staying closely connected and integrated with the other bottlers. We are a growing company and moving to Office 365 with the help of Dell and InfraScience has been advantageous for us in many ways. Not only have we been able to easily onboard new employees using Office 365, but we have reduced the administrative effort required to manage the collaboration systems day to day.' Jeff Meyer, CEO, InfraScience 'Dell Software's Notes migration tools allowed for a very smooth cut over of over 1,000 CCBCU contacts to Office 365. When employees opened up their mailboxes for the first time after the migration, all their mail was there.' 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Dell Software is uniquely positioned to address today's most pressing business and IT challenges with holistic, connected software offerings across five core solution areas, encompassing data center and cloud management, information management, mobile workforce management, security and data protection. This software, when combined with Dell hardware and services, helps customers simplify IT, mitigate risk and accelerate business results. About Dell Dell Inc. listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. For more information, visit www.dell.com. About InfraScience As a Dell Premier partner, InfraScience delivers proven infrastructure expertise gained through experience. Our consultants design and implement a wide range of complex Microsoft and Dell Software infrastructure solutions from mid-size companies to large, multinational enterprises. 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