| | jULY 201419CIOReviewof different systems that do not talk to each other. In one such instance, a customer of TNC had Exchange Server 2003 at one site for about 4000 users, Lotus Notes for 8000 users, and Novell GroupWise for an additional 3000 users, bringing the tally to nearly 15,000 users on 3 different messaging environments. Instead of hiring a consultant, the company decided to take the task into its own hands. While this did not turn out to be a bad decision, efficiency went south. Later when TNC stepped in, it spent more time cleaning up the address books and mail connectors than doing the project itself. Nevertheless, TNC was able to seamlessly migrate 15,000 users to a new Exchange organization under eight months with only a lean project team. Like the one above, TNC has an excellent track record and references from many different sized clients like the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, Great Clips, Eddie Bauer, Children's Theater Company, University of Oklahoma, Albany International, The Bergquist Company, and TECO Energy. With the retail industry wanting to streamline their operations and utilize SharePoint to the fullest, the company is seeing an increased traction for its solutions in the retail, as well as the manufacturing industry.Having done some impressive large-scale migrations in recent past, the company's honcho poses a question to the CIOs, "Would you like someone who has done 100 Office 365 deployments in the past six months and moved 30,000 mailboxes to the cloud? Or would you like a larger company that may have done 100 on-premise and three cloud migrations and only moved maybe 6,000 mailboxes to the cloud?" This is not different from taking a car to a mechanic who identifies the problem in a single test drive, which is not always the case with a large dealership. An aspect that makes working with TNC better as opposed to a large company is that the latter tends to outsource the implementation. "With TNC, the guys that step onsite from day one are usually the guys you are working with throughout the project," says Nelson. The company also has knack in bringing something new to the table that wins the CIOs over, nine out of ten times. Regardless of how crowded a market is, the quality of work delivered by Nelson and his team makes TNC stand out."We are very anti-change order," states Nelson. Change orders are a result of poor planning and improper scoping, and there is no place for either of those at TNC. Being tool agnostic, the company is able to think outside the box and present a number of options for customers to look at and make the right business decisions. About the company's future, Nelson distills down to one word--growth. TNC is continually developing resources internally and hiring new talents to better serve the clients and be their trusted advisor. With Microsoft Azure gathering steam, the firm is also excited about being actively involved in moving companies' server operations to the cloud.
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