AvePoint Unveils New Solutions for Microsoft Office 365 & Azure at Microsoft Ignite 2015

Utilizing Microsoft Azure technologies, AvePoint simplifies Office 365 onboarding, promotes responsible data management, and enables intelligent archiving to make productivity benefits of the cloud a reality

Chicago, IL — May 5, 2015 — From the halls of Microsoft Ignite 2015, AvePoint, the established leader in enabling enterprise collaboration across platforms and devices, today announced new tools to help customers speed up and simplify the move to Microsoft Office 365. Utilizing Microsoft Azure technologies, AvePoint Solutions for Office 365 enable organizations to migrate to Microsoft Office 365 faster while ensuring sustainable user adoption and effectively managing critical business data on the platform.

“By integrating with powerful Azure technologies, AvePoint’s solutions can get organizations to the cloud quickly – but migration is only half the battle,” said John Peluso, Vice President of Product Management, AvePoint. “Our solutions for Office 365 provides businesses with not only a path the cloud, but also the capabilities to effectively manage data to meet organizational compliance and governance initiatives using a toolset that is already trusted by millions of users on Office 365 today.”

High Speed Migration: Through an integration with Microsoft’s new SharePoint Online Migration API and Azure technologies, the High Speed Migration feature in AvePoint’s DocAve Migrator will enable customers to overcome technical limitations including bandwidth throttling, network latency, and information security concerns to begin taking advantage of Microsoft’s collaboration solutions in the cloud up to nine times faster. Part of the award-winning DocAve Software Platform, DocAve Migrator provides an efficient and cost-effective solution for migrating business-critical content to SharePoint Online.

The High Speed Migration functionality will be available for DocAve Migrator for File Systems in the fall of 2015, and AvePoint is now accepting applications for a preview program.

AvePoint Solutions for Office 365: Supporting 3 million users and backing up more than one petabyte of data today, AvePoint Online Services is the industry’s first and only 100 percent Azure-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform for Office 365. AvePoint Solutions for Office 365 enable simple onboarding, responsible data management, and smart archiving.

• Simplify Office 365 Onboarding: Improve productivity in the cloud by minimizing disruptions during the onboarding process, uncluttering information for users and automating business processes to allow more effective collaboration.
• Manage Data Responsibly: Gain control of company data and easily scale storage to meet specific business needs while securely accessing information from anywhere as well as minimizing repetitive tasks for IT administrators.
• Archive Intelligently: Through an integration with StorSimple technology, AvePoint offers a scalable, hybrid cloud storage solution to keep active data on premises while pushing archived data to Azure to reduce hardware costs and adhere to legal requirements.

“AvePoint Online Services gives us an overall view of the Office 365 – SharePoint Online platform while allowing us to better manage sites and security,” said Pierre Vivier-Merle, Business Productivity Director, vNext. “It also allows us to delegate certain tasks to users – such as content and temporary permissions management – allowing them to be more autonomous.”

For more information on AvePoint Solutions for Office 365, please visit our website or booth at Microsoft Ignite (#568).

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