CLICK TO WATCH : HAPPY HERITAGE DAY 291 been “ somewhat insulated from the broader developments in some IT processes , meaning that standardising all of our processes had to be the first part of the journey .” Second , he adds , was migrating to a secure data centre environment . The organisation was aided on this migration through its relationship with partner , Unity Technologies , which was also working closely with Microsoft . As a result of this partnership , Brothers of Charity Services Ireland was awarded a grant by Microsoft in 2017 worth more than € 3m . “ This gave us the
platform to move forward with our vision and to make use of the cloud and other Microsoft technologies to drive our journey ,” Coy adds .
“ We ’ re making the change from Exchange 2003 and various other platforms to the cloud , and it ’ s not straightforward , but we ’ re using tools like BitTitan MigrationWiz to move to the newest systems as seamlessly as possible . We ’ ve found that moving everyone to the cloud has not only brought the expected benefits from a standardisation point of view , it has also allowed us to function far more
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