Your Microsoft Office 365 Partner
Ensure you choose the right Office 365 partner.
Boldfield is a Microsoft 365 business partner. We pride ourselves on ensuring that you get the right delivery for your application. Planning is a massive part of that process. We’ve highlighted some of the important things that you should look out for when choosing an Office 365 partner to work with on an installation. We’re committed to ensuring you get exactly what you need.
Committing your business to Microsoft Office 365 is a significant step forward in most businesses. Getting your choice of partner right and it’s a pain-free journey. Getting it wrong could mean significant delay, down time and disruption. Here’s our Boldfield guide to making the right choice.
The Right Partner For A Successful Migration
Making sure that your Office 365 partners are fully certified and versed on migration at scale is vital to the success of any project. Having a good technical support infrastructure where people from first line support upwards know what they are talking about. Ensuring that you’ve been specified the right office 365 solution is key. Check that your partner has examples of successful installs from similar sized businesses. Maybe they have case studies or could arrange a phonecall with a satisfied client. Boldfield would be happy to give you a list of happy installations. We’ve also got case studies for you to look at here.
Get The Right Support Plan In Place
The Microsoft partners who resell office 365 should be fully versed in recommending both the right package as well as the correct support. For example, it would be a disaster to discover that you have some of the more advanced solutions licensed from Microsoft, like for example, Azure Active Directory, but the Microsoft support doesn’t cover it. If you’re using 365 Enterprise, ensure that your support plan matches. At Boldfield, we appreciate it’s important to plan. That’s why you are the most important person in an implementation. We need to understand what your business goals are and your existing needs.
Getting The Right 365 Products Included In your Plan
There is a whole range of managed services built right into Office 365. There are also a whole array of extra solutions that don’t come supplied as standard. As a partner, you should be guided through the process to ensure that you only have what you need and, most importantly, you are paying for what you need. We ensure that this is followed meticulously.
Having a team – Like Boldfield who can advise and clarify what each additional product is, will ensure that you don’t get to the end to find you don’t have a vital part of your business operational due to an oversight.
Have You Seen The Benefits?
When you choose a partner to work on an Office 365 roll-out choose someone who has a track record of being able to demonstrate true total cost of ownership. Moreover, they should be able to show that the Microsoft Cloud solutions they have chosen for your business represents a cost saving. We pride ourselves on being able to clearly demonstrate how you can make savings using a cloud based solution like Office 365 – make sure that your partner is too.
Office 365 partner checklist
Microsoft offers two partnership certification programs. An Office 365 partner must install 50 licenses in their first year to get a Cloud essentials partnership. A Partner must install 150 licenses just to apply for the Cloud Accelerate certification. Afterwards, they must install 500 licenses to stay certified.
Not only that, with this volume of installations, it should be very easy to supply testimonials from happy customers. Make sure that you are satisfied that you have received the right recommendations for your business. Check that it is going to satisfy your business needs. If there is something that you are not too sure if you need. Ask your 365 partner to clarify the implications of adding a license or including it. Most importantly, ensure that you can understand what your total cost of ownership will be as a result. Finally, ensure that the support matches the software that has been specified.
At Boldfield, we excel at providing the right installation to the right client.