Siemens Healthineers Simplifies Global Migration for 75,000 Mailboxes CUSTOMER PROFILE
A leader in high-quality medical technologies across a broad portfolio, Siemens Healthineers is headquartered in Erlangen, Germany with over 120 years of experience and 18,500 patents globally. Locations +70 countries Revenue $16.4 billion (€14.5 billion) Employees Over 50,000
THE SITUATION The independent and listed Siemens Healthineers company consolidated all medical activities of Siemens. This demanded a smooth, stable separation of a substantial number of mailboxes from a complex environment without disruption to the business.
BENEFITS • Simplify complex environment move
• Scheduled migration for predictable timeline
• Minimal disruption to end-users
• Efficient, stable and successful migration
mailboxes migrated from hybrid 75,000 Exchange to cloud Exchange
Migrated from: Migrated to: Country: Industry: On-premises Microsoft Exchange Germany Medtech (Medical Microsoft Exchange Online Technology) THE CHALLENGE The Binary Tree Migrator Pro for Exchange The migration of 75,000 mailboxes from software provided the automation the complex environment of a giant to schedule the managed migration multinational conglomerate following the of 71,000 mailboxes over a 9-month separation of an independent and listed period with a further 4,000 in the project clean-up immediately after. The ease “It was a very complex company needed to be completed on a predictable timeline without disruption to of use, stability and unique functionality migration over 9 months the business. As a worldwide project with offered by the solution overcame the very 75 locations, a full service solution that limited access available from the original and the interaction was flexible, proven and cost-effective source and provided both the easy between our global was required to support the limited automated communication with end-users, internal resources. Additional challenges and allowed a quick and straightforward Healthineers Project for the project included migrating mail, delegation of permissions. users, calendars and archives from the Team and Binary Tree existing Hybrid (cross-tenant) environment THE RESULTS was always constructive. to the new company’s Microsoft Exchange The close partnership between Siemens Online system. Healthineers and Binary Tree ensured all the challenges in this large and In the event of problems, THE SOLUTION complex project were rapidly resolved contact with the MaaS The Binary Tree Migration-as-a-Service while the scalability of the solution (MaaS) utilizing the Binary Tree Migrator made it easy to automate and batch the team was always very Pro by Quest for Exchange software was very large migration to meet deadlines. quick and problems selected from a competitive RFP bidding Alexander Ruf, Cloud Architect at Siemens process against leading migration solution Healthineers commented “It was a very were quickly resolved. providers. complex migration over 9 months and the interaction between our global This winning combination provided both Healthineers Project Team and Binary Binary Tree makes our the proven migration framework coupled Tree was always constructive. In the event with seasoned, professional consulting of problems, contact with the MaaS team lives relatively easy.” support that worked very closely with was always very quick and problems were the small team at Siemens Healthineers quickly resolved. Adding “Binary Tree Alexander Ruf, Cloud Architect to react extremely rapidly to the issues makes our lives relatively easy.“ Siemens Healthineers GmbH and challenges arising in the complex migration.
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