{"id":4606,"date":"2020-11-24T09:53:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T17:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=4606"},"modified":"2020-11-24T09:53:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T17:53:32","slug":"considering-migrating-to-a-microsoft-phone-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/considering-migrating-to-a-microsoft-phone-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Considering Migrating to a Microsoft Phone System?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Phone System is technology that enables call control and Private Branch Exchange (PBX) capabilities in the Office 365 cloud with Microsoft Teams. <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoftteams\/what-is-phone-system-in-office-365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Microsoft Phone System<\/span><\/a> works with Microsoft Teams or Skype for Business Online clients and certified devices. Phone System allows you to replace your existing PBX system with a set of features directly delivered from Office 365 and tightly integrated into the company\u2019s cloud productivity experience.<sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>If your company has decided to migrate from its current voice platform to Microsoft Teams, you may want to be all-in-the-Microsoft cloud for voice or connected to your own carrier. Maybe, you\u2019ll have a mix between the two; needing to retain some functionality provided by your current on-premises PBX deployment while integrating part of your communications environment on Microsoft Phone System. Once you\u2019ve made the decision to migrate, how do you proceed? Poly can help you take the next step and ensure your migration goes smoothly.<\/p>\n<h4>PLANNING THE MIGRATION JOURNEY<\/h4>\n<p>Are you ready to get started on the voice migration journey? With limited IT staff, you may be asking yourself, \u201cWhat are the blind spots we aren\u2019t experienced with? What are the risks to our business operations if there are issues with our migration to a Microsoft Phone System?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Many organizations see the task of moving from their current PBX to Microsoft Phone System as daunting for the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the size of the project<\/li>\n<li>the time it will take<\/li>\n<li>lack of internal resources<\/li>\n<li>not having enough in-depth understanding and experience with Microsoft Phone system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, it\u2019s likely that your biggest fear is that during the process of migrating, mistakes will take your phone system down. Without the right help, it can take months to plan where to start \u2013 or even find the right tools.<\/p>\n<h4>HOW POLY CAN HELP<\/h4>\n<p>Any move from one PBX platform to another requires expertise, careful planning and the time to do so. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poly.com\/us\/en\/products\/services\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poly Professional Services<\/a><\/span> is here to help. At Poly, we have skilled, technical experts, including <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mvp.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft Most Valued Professionals<\/a><\/span>, who are experienced with the unique challenges of planning, assessments, and deployments who can make your migration easier and faster. We can help you quickly assess and plan for a voice migration journey from your traditional IP based PBX solution to Microsoft Phone System.<\/p>\n<h4>TAKING THE FIRST STEP<\/h4>\n<p>Your first step is to assess and analyze what you have and what it would take to migrate to Microsoft Phone System. Our <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poly.com\/content\/dam\/www\/products\/services\/professional\/deploy-and-optimize\/doc\/pbx-assessment-consulting-services-for-msft-teams-ds-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poly PBX Assessment Service for Microsoft Teams<\/a><\/span> is designed to ease your mind about this type of project. This service can help you maximize data integrity, minimize financial risk and free your internal resources to work on other projects\u2014or more simply put, ensure a seamless migration.<\/p>\n<p>This two-day remote service provides you with the necessary help to assess, analyze, and map the full configuration of your source PBX environment into an assessment summary report. Through understanding your needs, schedule, and business expectations, this service provides total transparency into this system(s) configurations of your PBX(s)\u2014including user names and numbers, call flows, activated features, ring patterns, hunt and pickup groups, E164 normalization, voicemail, and more. At the end of the engagement we provide an assessment summary report which includes key insights; a full PBX review; end-users and extensions analysis; feature parity and device summary reports with breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p>This level of information will help you accelerate the planning and migration assessment process significantly \u2013 taking days for an assessment rather than weeks\/months.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>OUR REPORT COVERS FOUR KEY AREAS:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Migration costing <\/strong>\u2013 specifying what can be migrated automatically and what will require manual work and resources.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Migration challenges outlook<\/strong> \u2013 providing the ability to know up-front where the migration challenges will be and address them specifically.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Detailed devices inventory and mapping<\/strong> \u2013 a critical aspect of evaluating a migration project is visibility of the devices in place, what needs to be replaced and what is enabled by employee profiles.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unique data<\/strong> \u2013 the service assesses specific data sets with unique value in the legacy PBX, which can be analyzed per request.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Getting started is easy. Visit our website to learn more about the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poly.com\/content\/dam\/www\/products\/services\/professional\/deploy-and-optimize\/doc\/pbx-assessment-consulting-services-for-msft-teams-ds-en.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Poly PBX Assessment Service for Microsoft Teams<\/a><\/span> and our complete portfolio of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poly.com\/us\/en\/products\/services\/professional\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Professional Services for Microsoft Teams<\/a><\/span> or contact your Poly partner to start your migration journey to Microsoft Phone System.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/skypeforbusiness\/hybrid\/msft-telephony-solutions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/skypeforbusiness\/hybrid\/msft-telephony-solutions<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft Phone System is technology that enables call control and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":4607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1457,526],"tags":[20,1872,43,444,1873,1485,1874,1875,1876],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}