Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite

Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by thesumofall on Friday March 16, 2018 @01:09PM (#16602120)

People need to be trained, documents moved and converted, business processes adapted, ... In addition, solutions will have to be found for documents that exceed GSuite’s capabilities. 10 years? No, but 2-3 years for sure.

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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by joshuamorton on Friday March 16, 2018 @01:56PM (#16602569)

For 100% adoption sure, but for 95% or even 99% adoption, I doubt that long is necessary.

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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by thesumofall on Friday March 16, 2018 @02:04PM (#16602636)

> “We expect it to take up to 18 months to reach every one of our 130,000 employees but our teams are already starting to work on a plan which will involve you and of course our social partners,” said Enders.

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Re:Airbus moves 130k employees from Microsoft Office to GSuite by eitally on Friday March 16, 2018 @03:16PM (#16603244)

By the time announcements like this are made, there have already been lengthy successful IT pilots with much change management planning already conducted, partners engaged, etc. If they say 12-18mo, they may slip to 18-24mo, but definitely not multiple years.

That said, the other commenter is also accurate: a "full" roll-out will not mean 100% replacement. Things would break and it would be an irresponsible management decision to force some things that shouldn't be forced.

Source: I led a large MSO-->G Suite migration in a previous role.

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