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With Cloud|AG’s assistance, Albion Scaccia migrated its company email and documents to Office 365, which also included Cloud|AG’s application ServicePoint365. ServicePoint365 is an industry template application developed for Office 365 – SharePoint Online designed to support the collaboration and content management needs of project-centric organizations, individuals, and teams. In addition to eliminating risk of downtime, the solution allowed Albion Scaccia cost savings in the area of IT support resources, which it outsourced through another company. “Office 365 and ServicePoint365 allow us to carry out all of our field operations and store data in the cloud, providing access at all times,” Newsome said. “The fact that we could eliminate all local servers aside from print servers reduced our dependency on IT support for server maintenance and upgrades.”
Albion Scaccia also enjoys a level of mobility that it never had with file shares. When field supervisors are on site at jobs, they can now use their phones and tablets to easily access the latest versions of documents through SharePoint Online. “Better access to information on the job is a great benefit to our field supervisors,” Newsome said. “Carrying a tablet with up-to-date information is easier than armfuls of blueprints.”
To manage and protect Albion Scaccia’s Office 365 and ServicePoint365 environment, Cloud|AG utilizes AvePoint Online Services. Hosted on Microsoft Azure, AvePoint Online Services (AOS) is a SaaS platform that empowers organizations to extend cloud computing as business needs dictate by providing capabilities including management, protection, synchronization, and reporting. “AOS is a unique tool in the marketplace, as it allows us as a trusted partner to provide necessary managed services for Albion Scaccia’s environment,” said Cloud|AG President and CEO David Huseonica. “No other solution gives us the capability to operate these kinds of services on behalf of our clients.”
AOS allows Cloud|AG to protect all of Albion Scaccia’s SharePoint Online data with granular content backup and recovery to quickly restore lost or corrupt documents and sites, eliminating the threat of downtime for any of the company’s business-critical data. “While Microsoft provides Albion Scaccia with the confidence that their environment can be accessed at all times, AOS allows us to cater to the individual,” Huseonica said. “If a user needs to restore a document or site that has been lost or corrupted, we can do so within an hour for them through DocAve Online, eliminating any significant business disruption.”