Netcompany delivers email migration for Highways England
Global IT consultancy Netcompany has successfully completed an email service transformation for Highways England, as part of its modernisation programme and cloud-first strategy.
Highways England is the government-owned company charged with operating, maintaining and improving England's motorways and major A roads. Netcompany was tasked with migrating 7,000 Highways England email accounts (made up of individual and shared inboxes), from a legacy infrastructure to Microsoft Exchange Online.
In collaboration with Highways England stakeholders, Netcompany developed the approach to execute the migration; driving and assuring quality throughout the process and managing relationships with all involved.
By migrating to the cloud, Highways England can expect to see increased productivity, greater accessibility, enhanced security and increased integration into the M365 platform alongside lower costs and a faster return on investment.
Andrew Bee, Project Manager at Netcompany, said: “Moving an email solution is often viewed with apprehension, as we all consider email as an essential and high priority business tool. By working closely with Highways England, we’ve managed to undertake and complete a significant email migration with little disruption for staff.”
“Our teams can design, deliver and support cloud or on-premise solutions. Our preference is to place and integrate our people with our customers’ teams, while assuming full responsibility for delivering the project. This creates the best outcomes, as the work is only complete when the specified outcome is delivered.”
Olusegun Fasesin, Senior IT Service Manager at Highways England, added: “Netcompany, in conjunction with Highways England IT Service Operation team, delivered a key part of our digital transformation journey, by successfully migrating thousands of our staff mailboxes and transitioning our email service from a legacy infrastructure to an enhanced Microsoft Exchange Online platform and service.”
“This significantly improved productivity, operational efficiency, enhanced our security posture as well as increased user satisfaction level.
“All through the project lifecycle, our needs and rapidly changing requirements have been given high priority and pragmatically addressed by Netcompany, ultimately resulting in the project being delivered within agreed budget and time constraint. This critical project was delivered on time, with 100% of Highways England staff now consuming email service via a rich featured modernised exchange online infrastructure.”
All of Highways England’s staff currently work with the new email exchange.
