INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Microsoft wants to make it as easy as possible to migrate to Microsoft 365, and today the company announced it had purchased a Canadian
startup called Mover to help
The companies did not reveal the acquisition price.Microsoft 365 is the company’s bundle that includes Office 365, Microsoft Teams,
security tools and workflow
The idea is to provide customers with a soup-to-nuts, cloud-based productivity package
Mover helps customers get files from another service into the Microsoft 365 cloud.As Jeff Tepper wrote in a post on the Official Microsoft
Blog announcing the acquisition, this is about helping customers get to the Microsoft cloud as quickly and smoothly as possible
“Today, Mover supports migration from over a dozen cloud service providers — including Box, Dropbox, Egnyte, and Google Drive — into
OneDrive and SharePoint, enabling seamless file collaboration across Microsoft 365 apps and services, including the Office apps and
Microsoft Teams,” Tepper wrote.Tepper also points out that they will be gaining the expertise of the Mover team as it moves to Microsoft
and helps add to the migration tools already in place.Tony Byrne, founder and principal analyst at Real Story Group, says that moving files
from one system to another like this can be extremely challenging regardless of how you do it, and the file transfer mechanism is only part
“The transition to 365 from an on-prem system or competing cloud supplier is never a migration, per se
It’s a rebuild, with a completely different UX, admin model, set of services and operational assumptions all built into the Microsoft
cloud offering,” Byrne explained.Mover is based in Edmonton, Canada
It was founded in 2012 and raised $1 million, according to Crunchbase data
It counts some big clients as customers, including AutoDesk, Symantec and BuzzFeed.
