| Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 13:37:21 +0000 (GMT)
From: Readers Choice <[email protected]>
Subject: #29531-SBU Exchange Migration Update: Status Report 1
To: [long list deleted]
FROM: Linda Ward, MRO, DTN 297-4795, FAX: 297-1442
In August 1996, the SBU announced plans to migrate its mail and messaging
capabilities from DIGITAL legacy applications -- VMSmail, ALL-IN-1, and
DECmail -- to Microsoft Exchange. Implementation, which is being done in
parallel with the company-wide migration, is well under way within the SBU.
You'll be hearing from us
Because this change has such a significant impact on how we all do our
daily work, SBU management and the SBU Microsoft Exchange Program Office
plan to communicate with you about it on a regular basis. This status
report is the first in a series of updates that will be sent to all SBU
employees. Future topics will include: the benefits of Microsoft Exchange,
Exchange training resources, and tips and tricks for working in the new
environment.
Company goals and progress
The corporation's worldwide goal is to migrate roughly 40,000 accounts to
Exchange and to phase out all legacy mail systems by the end of Q1 FY98.
Implementation began in earnest during Q2 FY97. To date, an estimated
30,000 accounts -- 75% of the total -- have been migrated company-wide.
SBU Status Report
In keeping with that schedule, the SBU is planning to migrate over 12,000
SBU accounts to Exchange by the end of Q1 FY98. To date, approximately
5,000 accounts -- almost 42% -- have been migrated.
The DIGITAL Call Center in Littleton, Massachusetts was the first SBU site
to migrate to Exchange, in October 1996. After encountering and resolving
some initial instability, the rollout has gone smoothly, with end users
expressing a high degree of satisfaction with the new environment. In late
February, the MRO1 facility in Marlboro, Massachusetts completed
implementation. We will publish a rollout schedule for other sites and
groups in the near future.
The path to success
SBU management believes, along with DIGITAL senior management, that the
implementation of Microsoft Exchange will pay enormous dividends to the
company, our business unit, SBU working groups, and individual employees.
We plan to provide you with the information, tools, and resources to ensure
your productivity and success in this new environment, and we thank you for
your continued support in this effort.
Regards,
Len Hyman, SBU Microsoft Exchange Program Manager
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| >SBU management believes, along with DIGITAL senior management, that the
>implementation of Microsoft Exchange will pay enormous dividends to the
>company, our business unit, SBU working groups, and individual employees.
Since December I work with Exchange.I like it. Complemented with some WEB
applications it has pluses and minuses compared to my previous A1/Teamlinks
graphical office environment. All in all it's OK.
BUT HOW CAN IT PAY ENORMOUS DIVIDENDS TO THE COMPANY, THE BUs
AND MYSELF????? Reading this sentence I feel the SLT is thinking I'm
(DEC's employees are) stupid. I do not want to believe they think this.
It may have been a good idea to move to Exchange because of the market,
our alliance with M$ or whatever intangible reason but not because it
will have a hudge ROI for DIGITAL.
I maybe wrong, please do not hesitate to post a simple cost benefit
analysis here to explain how wrong I'm.
Joel
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