Google Apps Migration for Novell GroupWise
A Specialized Approach
Novell GroupWise migrations require comprehensive planning and configuration. Detailed experience with the GroupWise post office and eDirectory are required to succeed with any migration.
We also offer the Cloud Google Migrator, a migration tool specifically for GroupWise that’s highly configurable to your environment.
We take the unique aspects of GroupWise into consideration; here’s how GroupWise projects usually fit within our migration methodology:
Discovery and Planning
- Project Planning & Kickoff — Gteknologies provides specific migration and deployment project discovery. Our migration specific project manager will conduct a project kickoff, analysis of any business impact concerns, and deployment timeline with your project team. As a deliverable of this output, a deployment project plan will be created and approved by your core project team.
Design and Configuration
- Mail Coexistence/Routing — When we migrate your company’s early adopters to Google Apps, other members of your organization are still going to be on GroupWise until we complete the migration, leaving both platforms operational for some period of time. Managing coexistence and ensuring that everyone still communicates without difficulty is paramount during this phase. We will assist in the configuration of GWIA settings to accomplish dual delivery with Google Apps.
- eDirectory Synchronization — Directory sync ensures that users on both platforms can access each other’s contact information to easily communicate with co-workers. We can configure the Google Directory Sync tool with your GroupWise edirectory to support user accounts, groups, and shared contacts.
Migrate Data
- Data Migration — Our team will walk you through the options concerning the migration of mail, calendar and contact data. Depending on both your budget and how comprehensively your personnel uses mail, calendar and contacts, this phase can be one of the most time consuming, but arguably the most important. Additionally, our specialized tool will address the migration of your GroupWise resource data.
Training
- Variety of options — Our training team can deliver training to your organization in a variety of ways, from webinars to classroom training to train-the-trainer sessions. Visit our training page to learn more.
Post Deployment Support
- Let us figure it out — As part of your deployment, we provide one month or up to 20 hours of support for your IT staff. We provide 24 hour help desk ticketing online, and a 9-5 PM support line. Learn more about additional support packages.
Project Management
- Ensure success — We track progress against plan with excruciating detail. Our project managers will help identify potential obstacles early, and quickly bring the right people and information together to reach a decision.
Change Management
- Make an efficient change — Prepare your organization for success by implementing Change Management and connecting with your users throughout the migration. Change Management will reduce production drop and increase time to proficiency during your migration, learn more.
Learn more about switching to Google Apps
Gteknologies has the knowledge and experience with Novell GroupWise to Google Apps migrations that will accelerate your transition. Our job is to guide you through an efficient transition so that you can reap the benefits of Google Apps as soon as possible. Contact us using the form below to get started today.
Collaborative Solutions
Learn how to leverage Google Sites and Google Docs to build truly collaborative environments for your organization.
If you’re like most “Gone Google” organizations, you made the move to Google Apps because of the clear ROI associated with the messaging platform (Gmail, Calendar, Contacts, Talk, etc.). As your team settles in and realizes these benefits, you’ve probably also recognized that there are serious transformational benefits to be had adopting Google’s collaborative suite (Docs, Sites, Groups, Video, etc). Or, perhaps you have decided to stick with a legacy messaging platform and want to embrace the power of collaboration using Google Apps. This is where Gteknologies’ Collaboration Practice helps. We:
- Help you understand and explore the potential advantages and opportunities for improvement using Google collaborative suite. Learn more.
- Design, assemble, and deliver secure, custom sites such as Intranets, Extranets, and team sites.
- Quickly deliver an Intranet, predefined with a selection of the most common features, for your organization. Learn more.
- Define and design improvements in your document and enterprise content management.
- If you’re not sold yet on Google Apps, but want to validate it in specific scenarios, we guide and facilitate your collaboration pilots. Learn more.
Collaboration Assessment
How can your organization leverage Google Docs and Sites?
From Docs to Sites, Going Google opens up a world of collaboration features, and many companies need guidance to fully leverage these new capabilities. Gteknologies’ Collaboration Assessment is a ten-day discovery and planning process where our team of experts work with you to prioritize your initiatives and define specific solutions. This process culminates in implementation recommendations designed to eliminate uncertainty and maximize the value you get from Google’s collaboration capabilities.
Contact your Gteknologies representative for more information on how to get started with a Collaboration Assessment.
Intranet FastTrack
Get up and running in 5 days
Intranets allow organizations to share data, knowledge and resources to ensure all employees receive the information they need. Gteknologies can deliver your new intranet in one week with our Intranet FastTrack package. This package is designed specifically to provide your organization with a functioning intranet solution that you can start using quickly.
Google Sites is a powerful tool that makes the creation, sharing and maintenance of websites simple and easy. Users may create sites with any number of pages, arrange them how they wish and embed rich content and applications in pages. Organizations can guide the creation of sites with templates— and all of this can be done without specialized technical knowledge. Organizations choose to use Google Sites as an intranet because the tool allows organizations to improve productivity and cut costs.
To learn more about the Intranet FastTrack, please complete the form on the right.
