In the past 12 months we have seen a further shift in migrations from one cloud platform to another.   

Since 2010, we have migrated email data from 21 different source archive platforms to a variety of destinations. A few years ago, there appeared to be a new push into Google rather than Microsoft Office 365 (O365) but in the past 12 months, only 7% of the migrations have been into Google compared to 36% into

 Public Folders in Microsoft Exchange enable email and documents to be shared between multiple people.

Organisations that are transforming their underlying email platform, by migrating from Exchange to Office 365 for example, need to migrate the contents of Public Folders (PF) to new targets including SharePoint. Each project has its unique technical challenges as PF usage varies by customer.  Business processes that may work well in PFs don’t necessarily translate easily to Shared Mailboxes, Office