10 May 2010

Research from Azaleos, the managed messaging and collaboration services company, has revealed that Exchange 2010 adoption has already achieved significant momentum with 44 per cent of respondents reporting that they plan to migrate to the new e-mail platform within the next 18 months.

The majority of these enterprises are doing so to take advantage of usability enhancements and new built-in capabilities that reduce Exchange’s reliance on and make it easier to integrate with third party products.

The independent survey was conducted by Osterman Research on Microsoft Exchange 2010 migration plans among enterprises with 1,000 or more users.

“This research revealed two fundamental catalysts for migrating to a new e-mail platform: the desire to make the infrastructure more flexible, cited by 59 per cent of respondents; and the need to drive down the cost of providing e-mail service for employees,” said Michael Osterman, president of Osterman Research “E-mail infrastructure flexibility will become extremely important over the next two to three years as organisations implement unified communications systems, which require moving siloed communications workloads, such as SharePoint and Office Communications Server, into an integrated system.”

“The Osterman Research report illustrates that Exchange 2010 has largely overcome the traditional ‘wait for SP1’ attitude among enterprises that plan to migrate to a new version of Microsoft software,” said Scott Gode, vice president of marketing for Azaleos. “Clearly, certain objections remain, including budget issues and the difficulty associated with migrating to a new platform.

"However, in our engagements with customers and prospects we’ve found that if an organisation is presented with the benefits of using Exchange 2010, and has a cost-effective way to get there, they have been very open to making a wholesale migration.”
 

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