How to Switch from Dropbox to OneDrive to Meet Business Goals

Planning a migration from Dropbox to OneDrive opens up a lot of opportunities for organizations to improve several business processes, which ultimately leads to higher business growth. But to leverage the opportunities, it is critical to ensure that your IT team does not go wrong in any needle-mover step. ?

Here are a handful of actionable insights into the steps your company and the IT team can take to meet several business goals (despite their complexity) with the migration project:?

Outline the Business Goals Your Company Plans to Improve?

The first step to capitalizing on the Dropbox to OneDrive migration project to achieving several business growth-focused goals is to outline the goals. It is critical to be specific with the goals to achieve them in the most meaningful ways.

Some of the practical business goals (use cases ) can be: ?

• Cost savings?
• Improving data governance?
• Increasing user productivity?
• Simplifying multiple fee structure ?

?Leverage the Business Goals To Inform the Decisions To Migrate Dropbox Assets?

In many cases, IT teams and the company’s management first decide what to migrate and then make efforts to align them with the business growth goals. However, this approach can further complicate the project, making it more challenging to achieve the end results. ?

Taking an opposite approach by letting the business goals inform the decision to finalize the Dropbox assets to migrate helps create a lean way to strategize and execute the migration project. For example, deciding whether to preserve original or modified timestamps of files and folders can determine their accessibility after they are migrated over to OneDrive for Business.?

Consider Making Tool Customization to Address Highly Specific Migration Needs?

Aligning the migration project with the business goals can become challenging if the migration tool has technical limitations or isn’t developed for a specific use case. In such cases, your IT team can consider exploring the scope of adding customizations to the tool to meet highly specific requirements, such as migrating file versions selectively, adding specific filters to migration reports, and more.?

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Take Strategic Decisions on Whether to Completely or Partially Decommission Dropbox?

Deciding whether to let go of the Dropbox environment completely or partially can help augment the efforts to reach the planned business growth goals. For example, in some cases, organizations can be better off completely decommissioning the source cloud environment to simplify license structures. But that’s just one part of the many benefits that are associated with both options.?

Explore more strategies with CloudFuze , the industry leader in cloud office migrations, and build up roadmaps on what can work best for your organization’s Dropbox to OneDrive for Business migration project. ?