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Five Steps to Migrate Google Workspace to Microsoft 365

Five Steps to Migrate Google Workspace to Microsoft 365

Organizations across industries are making the shift from Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) to Microsoft 365 as they consolidate platforms, embrace Microsoft Teams collaboration, or standardize on Exchange Online for enterprise email. While the migration can seem...

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Coming Soon: MigrationWiz Authentication Changes

Coming Soon: MigrationWiz Authentication Changes

Big Changes Coming in the New Year: A Modernized Authentication Experience for MigrationWiz Users As we head into the new year, MigrationWiz customers can expect a series of important updates designed to improve security, streamline project setup, and ensure long-term...

BitTitan Partner Spotlight: Veracloud

BitTitan Partner Spotlight: Veracloud

Veracloud Guarantees Results with MigrationWiz In the middle of the Mediterranean, between Sicily and the North African coast, is the island nation of Malta, a historic crossroads of commerce and civilizations. It’s a small country with a vibrant economy that’s home...

New Video: Migrate Recoverable Items

New Video: Migrate Recoverable Items

Video: Migrate Recoverable Items You just completed a mailbox migration. Well done – another successful migration project is on the books. Everyone seems happy. Except that one manager who seems to be in a mild state of panic. It seems they can’t find that one email...

Video: Migrate Email between Microsoft Groups

Video: Migrate Email between Microsoft Groups

Microsoft Groups provide a shared workspace that facilitates collaboration within groups like project teams, departments, and sales teams. Group membership connects designated users across Microsoft 365 applications for seamless collaboration and shared resources. You...

BitTitan Appoints Florent Aonon to Lead EMEA Sales

BitTitan Appoints Florent Aonon to Lead EMEA Sales

Austin, TX – August 5, 2025 –  BitTitan, the global leader in migration automation tools, today announced the appointment of Florent Aonon as the company’s new EMEA sales leader. In this role, Aonon will spearhead strategic growth initiatives across Europe, the Middle...

Partner Spotlight: Managed Solution

Partner Spotlight: Managed Solution

Managed Solution is a BitTitan partner and provider of comprehensive managed IT services with round-the-clock, U.S.-based support. Their services include IT help desk, proactive monitoring, enhanced security, backup and disaster recovery, cloud infrastructure...

Video: Migrate a Mailbox into Microsoft Groups

Video: Migrate a Mailbox into Microsoft Groups

There are migration tools that can proficiently execute common migration scenarios. Then there’s MigrationWiz – the tool you depend on to handle almost any migration with maximum control and flexibility. MigrationWiz means never having to say “no” to a migration...

5 Tips for Scoping Migration Projects

5 Tips for Scoping Migration Projects

If you’re a Managed Service Provider who migrates for a living, or Internal IT who has to hop in on migration projects, you know the importance of a well-defined scope of work. Your customer or supervisor wants to know exactly what to expect — no mysteries or...

New Video: Exchange Online Mail Migration

New Video: Exchange Online Mail Migration

A mailbox migration between two Microsoft Exchange Online tenants is one of the most fundamental migration projects. BitTitan originally designed MigrationWiz to move mail and mailbox components, and it has been expanded over the years to handle all kinds of data and...

For What It’s Worth: Support for Better Migrations

For What It’s Worth: Support for Better Migrations

There’s a simplicity to the MigrationWiz value proposition – it’s a tool that does one thing extremely well. Of course, as migrations have become increasingly complex, we’ve evolved MigrationWiz to handle more types of data and a larger variety of endpoints. And, with...

Help Center: Now With AI Assistance

Help Center: Now With AI Assistance

Help Center: Now With AI Assistance BitTitan consistently gets high marks for the huge amount of information available to help IT teams plan and execute any kind of migration. The BitTitan Help Center keeps growing with resources for everyone from first-time...

Case Study: The DORIAN Group

Case Study: The DORIAN Group

New Case Study: Big Project, Big Success The best part of working with companies in the digital transformation space is when we help them pull off a complicated project like it’s just another day – and we love telling their stories after the dust has settled....

Streamline Teamwork with Microsoft Groups

Streamline Teamwork with Microsoft Groups

There’s Teams and there are teams. Both are more efficient with Groups. Whether you’re talking about capital-letter Microsoft Teams or hard-working folks with a shared mission, Microsoft Groups makes working together easier. Microsoft Groups is a collaboration tool...

3 Ways to Assure Successful Migrations

3 Ways to Assure Successful Migrations

The number one way to assure a successful data or email migration is to put MigrationWiz to work for you. MigrationWiz is a top-rated SaaS tool that gives you extensive options for executing almost any kind of migration, whether you’re changing tenants, moving to the...

You Can Be MigrationWiz Certified

Show off what you know. Now you can take convenient online courses to receive certification and demonstrate your MigrationWiz expertise. The new BitTitan Academy is an online training center that offers two certification tracks: One for technical knowledge and another...

Plan Ahead for MigrationWiz Price Adjustment

Plan Ahead for MigrationWiz Price Adjustment

BitTitan customers have gotten used to a lot of change. Over the years MigrationWiz has made changes to enhance features, capabilities, and performance while maintaining a commitment to the highest levels of security and support. One thing that hasn’t changed in eight...

Video: Migrate Teams Private Chat

Video: Migrate Teams Private Chat

It’s incredibly easy to migrate Teams Private Chat using MigrationWiz. So what could possibly make it easier? That would be a step-by-step tutorial video that explains exactly how it’s done in only 15 minutes. Private Chat migrations are a relatively new tool in the...

Unlocking Revenue from M&A: A Guide for MSPs

Unlocking Revenue from M&A: A Guide for MSPs

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) continue to be a significant organizational strategy, especially in industries like healthcare, financial services, and technology. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with the right expertise can capitalize on that demand to expand...

BitTitan Accelerates in Global Growth and Innovation

BitTitan Accelerates in Global Growth and Innovation

BitTitan expands its global sales team, enhances MigrationWiz capabilities, and strengthens technology investments Austin, TX – February 25, 2025 – BitTitan, the global leader in migration automation tools, is making significant investments to drive global expansion,...

New Teams Private Chat Migration Features

New Teams Private Chat Migration Features

We’re thrilled to announce a suite of powerful new enhancements to MigrationWiz, designed to make your Teams Private Chat migrations more efficient and easier to use. The developments consist of full chat history, more security protocols, regional controls,...

Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 End of Life

Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 End of Life

This is Really Happening: Exchange Server 2016 and 2019 End of Life If your organization is still using Exchange Server 2016 or older versions of 2019, it’s time to say goodbye for good. You’ve probably seen the update announcements, the timelines, and the...

New Video: Migrating OneDrive with the UMB

New Video: Migrating OneDrive with the UMB

So, you’ve just completed a mailbox migration and now you need to move OneDrive accounts for the same users. Easy – especially if you’re using MigrationWiz User Migration Bundle (UMB) licenses. This video will show you how. Mark, our migration expert, demonstrates how...

Video: Migrating Microsoft Teams

Video: Migrating Microsoft Teams

The thing about MigrationWiz is that it’s so versatile, there’s always something new to learn. You can build your expertise with one type of migration – mailboxes, for example – but when a new type of project comes along, you can say ‘yes’ to that, too. That’s because...

MigrationWiz Improvements for the New Year

MigrationWiz Improvements for the New Year

December 2024 Product Updates Year-end is a time of lists – top 10 lists, gift lists, and even your algorithmically-generated Spotify playlist. Not to be outdone, the BitTitan product team has delivered a list of MigrationWiz enhancements just in time for your 2025...

Microsoft Ignite 2024: Blazing With Excitement

Microsoft Ignite 2024: Blazing With Excitement

We’re fired up for 2025 – Microsoft Ignite definitely lit a fuse. The BitTitan team had an amazing week in Chicago learning, listening, and connecting. Whether you attended in person or online, it was hard to miss the excitement about the future of AI. Microsoft...

Migration Mocktails and Cocktails

Migration Mocktails and Cocktails

As the holiday season approaches, we're counting down the days with our "12 Days of MigrationWiz" social media posts. Each day we'll be highlighting a unique feature of MigrationWiz. And, while we're at it, we're sharing a fun holiday cocktail recipe each day!...

Microsoft 365 Mailbox Migration

Microsoft 365 Mailbox Migration

In the beginning…BitTitan created MigrationWiz to move mail. And a lot of mail has been moved since – from on-site to cloud, cloud to cloud, across platforms and geographies. MigrationWiz expanded to handle documents, archives, and all components of Teams. But there...

Together We Thrive: Honoring Those that Drive Success

Together We Thrive: Honoring Those that Drive Success

With the Holiday season approaching, it’s traditional to reflect on the year and express gratitude. The truth is, we’re thankful all year for the amazing customers, partners, and distributors we get to work with every day. We can’t say enough about how your support,...

End of Support for Lotus Notes, Groupwise, and Dropbox

End of Support for Lotus Notes, Groupwise, and Dropbox

The clock is ticking, so we’ll get straight to the point with this announcement: If you’ve been planning to migrate Groupwise, Lotus Notes, or Dropbox using MigrationWiz, you’ve got until March 31, 2025 to get it done. That’s when BitTitan will be ending support for...

Video: Scoping Mailbox Access on the Source Tenant

Video: Scoping Mailbox Access on the Source Tenant

One way mailbox migrations can become complicated is when you’re asked to extract a subset of mailboxes while keeping the remaining ones in place and secure. Our new MigrationWiz how-to video, Scoping Mailbox Access on the Source Tenant, will show you how to...

Google Throttling Issue Has Been Fixed

Google Throttling Issue Has Been Fixed

MigrationWiz gives you a whole lot of control over nearly every aspect of your migration. And yet, one issue has been vexing – until now. If you’ve tried using the Google API to migrate Business Gmail, you may have encountered stuck or delayed processing migration due...

Build a Migration Proposal for Copilot Readiness

Build a Migration Proposal for Copilot Readiness

Microsoft Copilot has taken off, and organizations of all types and sizes are flight testing secure generative AI in order to land more aerodynamic services and sky-high productivity. But first they need help preparing the airfield – so to speak. No need to torture...

BitTitan at Microsoft Ignite 2024

BitTitan at Microsoft Ignite 2024

Let’s Meet in Chicago! As a Microsoft Partner, we’re pretty excited about the future of AI and learning how global technology leaders are using Microsoft Copilot to modernize and achieve more. That’s why BitTitan is a proud sponsor of Microsoft Ignite in Chicago on...

Teams Migration Enhancements and More

Teams Migration Enhancements and More

Our Latest Product Updates When it comes to data migration, attention to detail keeps projects running smoothly and satisfaction high. Every day, while MigrationWiz is moving mailboxes, documents, folders, archives, and Teams, the BitTitan team is making improvements...

Video: Migrating Google Drive to OneDrive

Video: Migrating Google Drive to OneDrive

Even if you’ve migrated tons of mailboxes, a document migration will be a fresh challenge. Don’t worry – you won’t have to spend hours reading documentation or muddling through the MigrationWiz console on your own. The MigrationWiz how-to video series was created to...

New White Paper: Revenue Beyond MRR

New White Paper: Revenue Beyond MRR

Long-term customer relationships provide a steady stream of MRR (monthly recurring revenue) to your firm. But if you’re simply relying on the modest revenue from Microsoft 365 subscriptions, you’re leaving a lot of money on the table. You might also be doing more work...

Migrating SharePoint Site Libraries

Migrating SharePoint Site Libraries

MigrationWiz makes it easy to move a SharePoint documents library from one Microsoft 365 tenant to another. And our tutorial video makes it easy to learn how it’s done. In under 20 minutes you’ll watch the step-by-step migration process using live demo accounts and...

Video: Migrating GoDaddy to Microsoft 365

Video: Migrating GoDaddy to Microsoft 365

If you’re a visual learner, you’re in good company. Research shows that 65% of humans are visual learners. So while BitTitan’s written documentation always gets great reviews from IT professionals, we’re still expanding our popular how-to video series so you can learn...

Usability Enhancements Product Update

Usability Enhancements Product Update

Mid-year Product Updates Time to take a look at what the BitTitan product development team has been up to. MigrationWiz has fans across the globe, and our aim is to keep worries low and satisfaction high. That’s why we listen to what users are saying so we can build...

Migrate Google Sites to SharePoint

Migrate Google Sites to SharePoint

MigrationWiz isn’t just for email and documents. If you’ve got an intranet site built on Google Sites and need to move it to SharePoint, MigrationWiz can handle it. BitTitan has been expanding the workloads you can migrate with MigrationWiz and making it easier to...

Building an M&A Migration Business for MSPs

Building an M&A Migration Business for MSPs

The “S” in MSP stands for service. The more services you can provide, the more valuable you are to customers. One area where MSPs are expanding their offerings is supporting mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures (M&A). When corporate restructuring leads to the...

Teams Private Chat Rehydration

Teams Private Chat Rehydration

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There is a new way to migrate Microsoft Teams, follow along in this video to get the details and be a Teams migration expert.

BitTitan Announces Aaron Wadsworth as General Manager

BitTitan Announces Aaron Wadsworth as General Manager

Leadership and innovation fuel the global company’s commitment to advancing IT and migration solutions AUSTIN, Texas – June 5, 2024 – BitTitan, the global leader in migration automation tools, today announced the appointment of Aaron Wadsworth as General Manager. With...

Teams Private Chat Migrations are Back

Teams Private Chat Migrations are Back

Teams Private Chat migrations were working, then they stopped working, and now they’re working again. Here’s what you need to know: In response to a security issue, Microsoft made the decision to restrict Teams data access through EWS. This caused Teams Private Chat...

Migrate with Minimum Admin Rights

Migrate with Minimum Admin Rights

You’ve been asked to complete a Microsoft 365 migration, but the company that’s entrusted you with this project has a concern: They’re not sure if it’s a good idea to hand over global administrative rights just to facilitate the migration. You’ve got an answer: They...

MigrationWiz Product Updates

MigrationWiz Product Updates

Whether it’s big changes or lots of little tweaks that help streamline your projects, the team at MigrationWiz is always looking for ways to enhance your migration experience. Here’s a few of the items we’ve been working on the last few months. More for Your Mailbox...

Video: Project Sharing in MigrationWiz

Video: Project Sharing in MigrationWiz

A lot of migrations can be done with only one person at the helm of the BitTitan console. There are times, though, when you’ll want to share the work with others. For example, if you’re an IT service provider you already know you can manage multiple customers with a...

The Latest Migration News in the CloudTweaks Podcast

The Latest Migration News in the CloudTweaks Podcast

“The new Active Directory tool in MigrationWiz is a game changer for cloud migrations.” That’s the bottom line from Mark Rochester, the Cloud Geezer, after his wide-ranging conversation with Steve Prentice on the CloudTweaks podcast. Steve sat down with Mark to talk...

New Active Directory Migration Tool for MigrationWiz

New Active Directory Migration Tool for MigrationWiz

A new Active Directory Project is now available for general use inside MigrationWiz for those preparing a M365 migration. The project itself is set up in the normal way, using the ‘Create Project’ option inside MigrationWiz and the steps are similar to other migration...

Introduction to the BitTitan PowerShell SDK

Introduction to the BitTitan PowerShell SDK

The BitTitan PowerShell SDK is a powerful backend tool that can significantly expand your ability to customize migration projects and increase efficiency. While simple migration projects can be done easily within the MigrationWiz console, larger and more complex...

Getting Started with MigrationWiz

Getting Started with MigrationWiz

Are you using MigrationWiz for the first time? Ready to dive in and start working? It’s free to set up an account, and our introductory tutorial will help you get started and learn the basics. This video is for anyone who’s never used MigrationWiz. See how easy it is...

Celebrating a Winning Channel Team

Celebrating a Winning Channel Team

CRN, a media brand of the Channel Company, has once again recognized BitTitan on their list of Channel Chiefs. In addition, four distributors—who we consider extensions of the BitTitan team—also have multiple individuals receiving acclaim for their contributions in...

Migrating Google Mail to Microsoft 365

Migrating Google Mail to Microsoft 365

Cross-platform migrations are a little more complicated than a basic tenant move. But that doesn’t mean they have to be hard. With MigrationWiz it’s easy to move all components of Google Workspace Mail—including mail, calendars, and contacts—to Microsoft 365. And with...

Modern Authentication UI Updates

Modern Authentication UI Updates

BitTitan has made a change to MigrationWiz to help streamline Microsoft 365 migrations. Now you’ll set up Modern Authentication at the start so it’s in place before you structure the rest of the project. This will help make sure an important step is in place so you...

Microsoft 365 Mastery: What it Means for Businesses

Microsoft 365 Mastery: What it Means for Businesses

The re-branding of Office to Microsoft 365 marked a significant evolution from traditional office applications to a comprehensive suite of cloud-based productivity tools. More than a product evolution, Microsoft 365 represents a re-thinking of the modern workplace...

Choosing Google Workspace: 9 Factors to Consider

Choosing Google Workspace: 9 Factors to Consider

Should your organization move to Google Workspace? Maybe. The answer to that question should be based on an evaluation of multiple factors specific to how you do business. It’s not an easy yes or no. What is easy is how you’re going to get there: MigrationWiz. More...

New Years: The BitTitan Way

New Years: The BitTitan Way

In 46 B.C., Julius Caesar introduced the Julian calendar, named it after himself, and moved the official first day of the year to January 1. That doesn’t mean everyone went along with his edict. During the Middle Ages, some European countries started the year on...

Migration to Microsoft Azure Cloud: What to Know

Migration to Microsoft Azure Cloud: What to Know

When Microsoft was looking for a name for their cloud platform, they chose Azure, the color of the sky. They chose the name to reflect the open-ended and flexible nature of the platform. Today, organizations of every size are building, deploying, and managing...

Thank you, BitTitan Team and Partners!

Thank you, BitTitan Team and Partners!

With the Holiday season approaching, it’s traditional to express gratitude this time of year. We’re so thankful for the customers, partners, and distributors we get to work with every day. We can’t say enough about how your support, input, and trust motivates us to...

MigrationWiz Has Key ISO Certifications

MigrationWiz Has Key ISO Certifications

Part of due diligence is proving that your choice of a software tool meets the highest standards for protecting data privacy and cybersecurity. It’s not enough to say, “trust me, it’s safe.” That’s why BitTitan has built MigrationWiz to conform fully with ISO/IEC...

Migrate to Better Teams Governance

Migrate to Better Teams Governance

Microsoft Teams has revolutionized the way people work. The platform’s features allow for a lot of flexibility in how people collaborate and access resources. But many organizations are discovering, after a few years of experience, that flexibility needs to be...

Moving File Shares from On-Premises to the Cloud

Moving File Shares from On-Premises to the Cloud

It may be time to migrate file shares to SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams. Security is a major reason. The Azure Cloud has proven to be the better cybersecurity option compared to on-premises servers. And now, with the October’s end of support date, Microsoft is no...

Your Guide to Mailbox Migrations

Your Guide to Mailbox Migrations

So you need to migrate some mailboxes. Maybe you need to migrate a whole lot of mailboxes. Whatever the reason – whether it’s a merger, an acquisition, a divestiture, or a move to the cloud – MigrationWiz is a great choice. It’s the migration tool that will move every...

Navigating DeploymentPro in MigrationWiz

Navigating DeploymentPro in MigrationWiz

There’s nothing like having a way to automate a seemingly complicated task so you can quickly check it off your to-do list. Configuring Outlook profiles after a migration is one of those tasks. You need to do it, and you need to do it right. Otherwise, you’ll be...

Migrating Google Drive to OneDrive

Migrating Google Drive to OneDrive

Moving documents used to be so easy. You didn’t need to know much to fill up a bunch of cardboard boxes, load them onto a hand truck, and wheel them down the street. Moving a ton of cloud documents across platforms – okay, that takes some doing. Good thing you’ve got...

MigrationWiz Advanced Options

MigrationWiz Advanced Options

What makes MigrationWiz your go-to tool for every migration is its versatility. Migrate a single mailbox one day; plan and execute a complex merger the next. Flexibility is built into every license so you can move a wide variety of workloads and volumes of data to and...

Migrating from Google Mail to Microsoft 365

Migrating from Google Mail to Microsoft 365

Cross-platform migrations are a little more complicated than a basic tenant move. But that doesn’t mean they have to be hard. With MigrationWiz it’s easy to move all components of Gmail – including mail, calendars, and contacts – to Microsoft 365. And with the latest...

Microsoft Cross- Tenant Migration: The Hidden Cost

Microsoft Cross- Tenant Migration: The Hidden Cost

Microsoft Cross- Tenant Migration Tool : Free No More? In a recent online video, Mark, a seasoned IT consultant who calls himself The Cloud Geezer, shared his discovery about the “free” cross-tenant migration tool from Microsoft: It’s not free. Mark was in the midst...

EDU: When it Makes Sense to Separate Cloud Tenants

EDU: When it Makes Sense to Separate Cloud Tenants

Migration activity at colleges and universities has trended toward consolidating tenants in the cloud. These efforts are helping institutions decrease costs, optimize resources, and scale with greater flexibility. In the cloud, collaboration platforms like Microsoft...

Cybersecurity Trends: Taking a Holistic Approach

Cybersecurity Trends: Taking a Holistic Approach

You probably heard the news: Chinese cyberspies, exploiting a fundamental gap in Microsoft’s cloud, hacked email accounts at the Commerce and State departments. According to reporting by the Washington Post, “The hackers, looking for information useful to the Chinese...

MigrationWiz Quarterly

MigrationWiz Quarterly

There’s a lot going on here at BitTitan, and we want to make sure you don’t miss any of it. Here’s the latest product information along with opportunities to increase your skills or come visit us in person. Click the links to learn more. What’s New Here’s the latest...

BitTitan Salutes MSPs

BitTitan Salutes MSPs

Here’s to the MSPs! Ever since BitTitan was founded more than a decade ago, we’ve recognized the vital role of Managed Service Providers. Companies of every size rely on MSPs to recommend and deploy technology that helps increase efficiency, productivity, and user...

Navigating the MigrationWiz Console

Navigating the MigrationWiz Console

New Video: Navigating the MigrationWiz Console The MigrationWiz console is the command center for all your migrations. If you’re new to MigrationWiz, or if you’ve only used it for a single migration type, a quick tour around the console will give you the tools to...

MigrationWiz Master Class: User Mapping

MigrationWiz Master Class: User Mapping

We built MigrationWiz to handle all types and sizes of migration projects. It’s fast and easy for standard data and mailbox migrations; full-featured and customizable for more complex scenarios. Our MigrationWiz Master Class series introduces you to options and...

MigrationWiz Master Class: Recipient Mapping

MigrationWiz Master Class: Recipient Mapping

We built MigrationWiz to handle all types and sizes of migration projects. It’s fast and easy for standard data and mailbox migrations; full-featured and customizable for more complex scenarios. Our MigrationWiz Master Class series introduces you to options and...

Public Folder Migration with MigrationWiz

Public Folder Migration with MigrationWiz

New Video Tutorial: Step-by-Step Guide to Migrating Public Folders If you’ve migrated Public Folders with native tools, you’re about to find out how much easier it is with MigrationWiz. The latest in our how-to video series is a step-by-step look at a Public Folder...

Navigating Divestiture Migrations

Navigating Divestiture Migrations

New White Paper—Navigating Divestiture Migrations: Pointers for Success Mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures are keeping MSPs busy performing migrations. BitTitan has just published a new white paper to share what we’ve learned using MigrationWiz for these often...

Teams Project Setup and Migration

Teams Project Setup and Migration

New How-To Video: Teams Migrations Over the past few years, collaboration platforms have transformed the way we work, especially with so many of us working remotely. Microsoft Teams has more than a quarter million active users, so it’s no surprise that Teams...

Migrate Exchange Mailbox to Microsoft 365

Migrate Exchange Mailbox to Microsoft 365

So, you’re ready to move your on-premise Exchange Mailbox to a Microsoft 365 tenant. Of course you want to do it right, and you don’t want to leave anything behind. And it would be perfectly fine if users never even know it’s happening. MigrationWiz makes it easy. Our...

OneDrive and SharePoint Project Setup

OneDrive and SharePoint Project Setup

Our migration experts are back with another video tutorial. This time we’re taking you through the steps to set up a document migration using MigrationWiz. This video covers both OneDrive and SharePoint migrations so you can see how they work and understand the...

Don’t Wait to Migrate

Don’t Wait to Migrate

Procrastination gets a bad name. The early birds and deadline obsessed like to shake their heads at those who take time to ponder before diving into a big project. But procrastination has its upsides. Studies have shown that distraction can actually help increase your...

Google Migrations: Go with The EDU Expert

Google Migrations: Go with The EDU Expert

Winter break is once again on the horizon. If you’re running IT at an educational institution, you may be dreaming of a few weeks on a quiet campus where you can tackle some of your bigger projects. While students and faculty are at home, it’s a good time for system...

We’re Thankful For Our Partners

We’re Thankful For Our Partners

We're Thankful For Our Partners Many, Many Thanks With the Holiday season approaching, it’s traditional to express gratitude this time of year. The truth is, we’re thankful all year for the amazing customers, partners, and distributors we get to work with every day....

Product Update: More Ways to Leave GoDaddy

Product Update: More Ways to Leave GoDaddy

Product Update: More Ways to Leave GoDaddy Ready to Leave GoDaddy? A lot of GoDaddy users are finding they get more value and better service when they migrate to a different platform. More than a year ago, BitTitan added features to help Get Your Mail Out of GoDaddy....

Migrating to Better Educational Collaboration

Migrating to Better Educational Collaboration

MigrationWiz for Education The past few years have taught us a lot about the role of technology in education. The ability to quickly pivot to a remote learning model in response to the pandemic was just the beginning. We’re now seeing how much collaboration tools...

7 Ways to Avoid Migration Nightmares

7 Ways to Avoid Migration Nightmares

No Migration Nightmares Here Let’s face it, Halloween isn’t that scary anymore. Well, unless you’re shaken by swarms of unicorn princesses, three-foot-tall superheroes, and baby pumpkins. Even the skeletons and monsters are cute these days. If you try to migrate...

Managing M&A Migrations: Strategy and Execution

Managing M&A Migrations: Strategy and Execution

Executing a migration isn’t simply a technical exercise – especially when it’s part of a merger or acquisition. In fact, even if you have extensive experience using a migration tool like MigrationWiz, things can still go wrong if you skimp on planning and...

Maximize Your Cloud Potential

Maximize Your Cloud Potential

New to the Cloud: 8 Tips for Making the Most of Your New Environment Congratulations. You’ve decided to move your business to the cloud. You’ve done your research,  gathered the right resources, and made your business case. Cloud technology has the potential to...

MigrationWiz Licenses

MigrationWiz Licenses

Data migrations are not one-size-fits-all. A large university will have different migration needs than a start-up e-commerce company or mid-size technology company. BitTitan has built MigrationWiz to flex for every business’s needs so you can find a migration solution...

Onboarding Options for Migration Success

Onboarding Options for Migration Success

Unforeseen Migration Challenges Managing migrations presents several challenges for managed service providers (MSPs) and internal IT teams. Migrations are highly visible and complex undertakings that often occur under strict deadlines. And unfortunately, unknown...

Exertis Adds BitTitan to Cloud Services Offering

Exertis Adds BitTitan to Cloud Services Offering

MigrationWiz offers additional flexibility, scalability and ease for those moving their customers to the cloud Leading technology distributor Exertis has partnered with BitTitan, adding the vendor’s fully automated, industry-leading SaaS solution, MigrationWiz, to its...

5 Ways the Cloud Improves Supply Chain Management

5 Ways the Cloud Improves Supply Chain Management

Cloud Won’t Fix the Supply Chain. But it can help. A couple of years ago it would have been odd to hear a person in the grocery store remarking how their shopping trip is being impacted by supply chain issues. Or business owners complaining that they can’t fill an...

HPE Continues to Advance the Perimeter-less Workplace

HPE Continues to Advance the Perimeter-less Workplace

HPE Continues to Advance the Perimeter-less Workplace We’ve been following Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), a BitTitan Partner, as they lead workplace transformation in large organizations around the globe. With companies discussing different models for collaborative...

In Memoriam: SQL Server 2005

In Memoriam: SQL Server 2005

In Memoriam: SQL Server 2005 SQL Server 2005, age 11, passed away on April 12, 2016 at Microsoft HQ. It was the father of several versions of itself, including versions 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2016—not to mention Azure SQL. Born in Redmond, Wash., he was the son of SQL...

Exploring the World of Data Federation

Exploring the World of Data Federation

Exploring the World of Data Federation If you hear the word ‘federation’ and it brings to mind some kind of governmental body, you wouldn’t be wrong. The United States is a federation – a collection of states joined together into a single governing body. Star Trek’s...

Top Cloud Migration Tips from MigrationWiz Experts

Top Cloud Migration Tips from MigrationWiz Experts

Top Cloud Migration Tips from MigrationWiz Experts MigrationWiz Experts Share Their Top Migration Tips One thing MigrationWiz users all agree on is that the support they get from BitTitan is second to none. Whether it’s the extensive documentation available in our...

BitTitan Celebrates Global MSP Day

BitTitan Celebrates Global MSP Day

There are tons of reasons to celebrate in May, and not just because spring is right around the corner. The month kicks off with May Day followed by Cinco de Mayo, then of course we pamper our mothers on Mother’s Day. But this month you can also celebrate World Turtle...

Microsoft Teams for More Effective Healthcare

Microsoft Teams for More Effective Healthcare

TV and movies depict old-time healthcare as a solitary profession. The wise doctor attends to every illness, injury, and emotional crisis, then rides off to a remote homestead to deliver the town’s newest citizen. And maybe they solve a murder or two along the way....

Find a Migration Pro Who’s Mastered the Moves

Find a Migration Pro Who’s Mastered the Moves

Elite chess players are said to think 15 to 20 moves ahead in a game. It certainly makes sense that some of the brainiest among us would have the ability to anticipate outcomes in this way. But when you consider the fact that there are nearly 319 billion possibilities...

Scaling Migrations Performance Considerations

Scaling Migrations Performance Considerations

In Sergio Leonne’s epic spaghetti western The Good the Bad and the Ugly, Tuco (the Ugly) says, “If you work for a living, why do you kill yourself working?”. This quote not only applies to many tasks in IT, but the phrase the good, the bad and the ugly can also aptly...

It’s Only Human: Why Migrations Fail

It’s Only Human: Why Migrations Fail

In his Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams observed, “A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.” His pointed take on the very real issue of human error reminds...

Employees Return to a Reimagined Workplace

Employees Return to a Reimagined Workplace

After a certain amount of wishful thinking, and a few false starts, it looks like working in a physical office is getting closer to reality for many Covid shut-ins. But just as nobody could have predicted the changes these last two years would bring, there’s no way to...

October 2021 Product Release Notes

October 2021 Product Release Notes

At BitTitan we consistently get high marks for our attention to detail. We also hear from users that our documentation is second to none. So this month we’re announcing new features, updates, and help topic changes to make sure your migrations keep running smoothly....

October 2021 Product Release Notes

October 2021 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current product information, visit the BitTitan Help Center.

On-Demand Video: Meet Microsoft MVP Chris Hoard

On-Demand Video: Meet Microsoft MVP Chris Hoard

While the volume of data in the cloud continues to rise, security should be top of mind for all businesses. In fact, when choosing a productivity suite ensuring that the provider of choice has the requirements and certifications to comply with your business...

MigrationWiz Developers Never Rest

MigrationWiz Developers Never Rest

The team here at BitTitan enjoyed the summer, but we kept busy, too! If your Q4 includes migration projects, you’ll want to check out the many ways we’re enhancing MigrationWiz – making migrations faster, easier, and more complete. Check out our third quarter product...

September 2021 Product Release Notes

September 2021 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current product information, visit the BitTitan Help Center.

August 2021 Product Release Notes

August 2021 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current product information, visit the BitTitan Help Center.

July 2021 Product Release Notes

July 2021 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current product information, visit the BitTitan Help Center.

Teams Migration Kit – For a Smarter Move

Teams Migration Kit – For a Smarter Move

You may be a migration expert, or you may still be planning your first project. Regardless, if you’re moving data from, to, or between Microsoft Teams environments, customer happiness means doing it right. At BitTitan we don’t stop at creating the most complete and...

MigrationWiz: The Ultimate Athlete of Data Migration

MigrationWiz: The Ultimate Athlete of Data Migration

Ancient Greek sports competitions usually ended with the crowning of the games’ ultimate athlete: the winner of the pentathlon, the competitor who does all things well. Modern pentathletes don’t just swim fast and run far, they’re skilled at fencing, horseback riding,...

June 2021 Product Release Notes

June 2021 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current product information, visit the BitTitan Help Center.

Introducing the Tenant Migration Bundle from BitTitan

Introducing the Tenant Migration Bundle from BitTitan

At BitTitan we are always happy to get feedback from our users and strive to improve our products and offerings to better serve them and solve problems. Because of this we have made changes to the Tenant Migration Bundle (TMB). The TMB was originally a promotional...

Working Together to Make Modern Work…Work

Working Together to Make Modern Work…Work

This year’s Microsoft Inspire comes just as people are talking about companies coming back: Back to the office. Back to work. Back to business as usual. But many companies are doing more than coming back. This is where transition-to-cloud is ever more important....

News From MigrationWiz: More Ways to Migrate More Data

News From MigrationWiz: More Ways to Migrate More Data

There sure is a lot going on. Technology is changing and so is the way we work. Even BitTitan is changing, growing, and expanding our reach. Yet through it all, we continue to innovate, update, and add features to serve you better. We want to make sure you’re always...

How to Migrate Microsoft Planner with MigrationWiz

How to Migrate Microsoft Planner with MigrationWiz

Microsoft Planner is a task management tool that allows teams to plan, track, view, and assign tasks to users working collaboratively on a project. Since the application is tightly integrated with Microsoft Teams and other Office products, it’s becoming a critical...

May 2021 Product Release Notes

May 2021 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current product information, visit the BitTitan Help Center.

Get Your Mail Out of GoDaddy

Get Your Mail Out of GoDaddy

What’s up with GoDaddy? To be honest, we’re not completely sure. What we do know is we’re seeing more companies migrating their email away from GoDaddy, choosing instead to use self-managed or independent Microsoft 365 tenants. This appears to be the result of a move...

Consolidate Google Shared Drives with MigrationWiz

Consolidate Google Shared Drives with MigrationWiz

Entering 2021, a major focus for the MigrationWiz product team centered around enhancing document and collaboration migration capabilities. From overhauled SharePoint connectors and new licenses to a host of updates to Teams migrations, we are far more than just a...

How to Manually Configure Outlook for Office 365

How to Manually Configure Outlook for Office 365

Learn more about manual Outlook configurations and BitTitan's DeploymentPro tool in this updated post. We talk a lot about automated deployments of Outlook, and how easy this process is made through solutions such as DeploymentPro. However, we haven't really touched...

Your Go-to Tool Now Has a Go-to Toolkit

Your Go-to Tool Now Has a Go-to Toolkit

You probably already know that MigrationWiz is the go-to tool for millions of migrations each year. It’s fast. It’s secure. And it keeps expanding your possibilities for migrating mail, documents, data, and practically everything digital – even remotely. One reason IT...

BitTitan Singapore is a Great Place to Work

BitTitan Singapore is a Great Place to Work

BitTitan Singapore has been certified by the Great Place to Work® Institute (GPTW), the global authority on workplace culture, as a great place to work. The certification comes after GPTW assessed employee responses to a 60-question survey, then conducted a cultural...

[Webinar and Demo] Configuring Outlook with DeploymentPro

[Webinar and Demo] Configuring Outlook with DeploymentPro

Do this before your Microsoft 365 migration: Watch Tanner Strobel, Senior Technical Sales Specialist at BitTitan, as he shows you how to use DeploymentPro to configure Outlook. In this short webinar, you’ll learn about using DeploymentPro to automate the process of...

Microsoft Teams: Doing the Hard Work of Simplicity

Microsoft Teams: Doing the Hard Work of Simplicity

Charlie Chaplin said, “Simplicity is not a simple thing.” This from an actor who brought memorable characters to life without color film or dialogue. In his time, the limitations of technology must have played a large part in the need to focus on the basics. In the...

April 2021 Product Release Notes

April 2021 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current product information, visit the BitTitan Help Center.

Gartner Peer Insights: A Commitment to Customers First

Gartner Peer Insights: A Commitment to Customers First

It was Bill Gates who said, “We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.” At BitTitan we embrace this kind of openness as one of our four core values – “We love our customers.” One of the ways we put this into practice is by encouraging all...

[On-Demand Webinar] Migrating Securely with MigrationWiz

[On-Demand Webinar] Migrating Securely with MigrationWiz

According to Accenture, 68% (Source: Accenture) of business leaders feel their cybersecurity risks are increasing. This statistic probably comes as no surprise to IT professionals and cybersecurity experts. And it’s probably why questions about security are at the top...

[On-Demand Webinar] BitTitan PowerShell SDK

[On-Demand Webinar] BitTitan PowerShell SDK

Here’s something you can do in 12 minutes that will pay dividends in all your migration projects. A little time today will give you insights into time-saving tools that add efficiency and predictability in the future. In this webinar, BitTitan Senior Technical Sales...

Employee Spotlight: Jaym Gates

Employee Spotlight: Jaym Gates

Manager of Technical Documentation “At BitTitan, I’m able to be an advocate for our customers.” When customers talk BitTitan, it’s not just about the industry-leading data migration and automation tools.

Migration Tools: Feel Free to Question Free

Remarkably, the word “free” is still considered one of the most powerful words in the English language. Who doesn’t want free stuff? So even though the phrase “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” has been around for nearly a century, we’re still drawn in by that...

On-Demand Video: Meet Microsoft MVP Vesa Nopanen

On-Demand Video: Meet Microsoft MVP Vesa Nopanen

Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals, or MVPs, are technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. Vesa Nopanen, a BitTitan Partner at Sulava in Finland, has been a Microsoft MVP for the past two years. He recently shared his excitement...

Data Security: On-Premises Versus Cloud

Data Security: On-Premises Versus Cloud

Some companies have a bit of a Scrooge McDuck perspective about data security. Like the excessively-wealthy fictional duck who enjoys literally swimming in his wealth, companies sometimes have a hard time shaking the feeling that their most important assets need to be...

Choose the Right Strategy for Your Data Migration

Choose the Right Strategy for Your Data Migration

Anyone who has moved a household knows that without preparation and planning it can be a pretty chaotic experience. And no two moves are alike. There are different things to consider when moving across town versus across country, when downsizing or moving back in with...

The Ever-Expanding Teams Experience

The Ever-Expanding Teams Experience

Microsoft announces an abundance of features at Ignite Perhaps you’ve heard of the famous Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, California. If you visit, you’ll hear the story of a house that was continually being expanded and improved upon over the course of more...

Employee Spotlight: Sahana Tambi

Employee Spotlight: Sahana Tambi

Sahana Tambi Senior Software Developer and Team Leader “At BitTitan, every member of the team is able to have a huge impact.” That’s how Sahana Tambi, Senior Software Developer, describes what it’s like to work at BitTitan. Just over a year after joining the company,...

MigrationWiz Product Roundup – Q1 2021

MigrationWiz Product Roundup – Q1 2021

2021 has already seen loads of new features arrive to MigrationWiz over the past three months. In this roundup, we look at some of the top releases this year and give a glimpse ahead into the product roadmap for the next few months. We have some other news to share...

February 2021 Product Release Notes

February 2021 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current product information, visit the BitTitan Help Center.

Gartner Peer Insights: The Reviews Are In!

Gartner Peer Insights: The Reviews Are In!

Whether it’s a recommendation around your next book, a new dentist, or a piece of software, we look to our peers for guidance. We trust our friends and coworkers to provide honest feedback about their experiences – and we weigh their opinion heavily in our buying...

December Product Update

December Product Update

At BitTitan we’re looking forward to helping you streamline even more migrations in 2021. That’s why we want to keep you up to date on our latest product updates for Microsoft migration support. Here is a summary of those changes as 2020 comes to a close.

Feature Spotlight: Migrating OneNote in Microsoft Teams

Feature Spotlight: Migrating OneNote in Microsoft Teams

As the prevalence of Microsoft Teams migrations continues to grow as part of a broader tenant-to-tenant project, we’re expanding the feature capabilities of MigrationWiz to support different components of Teams. With the December 2020 release, MigrationWiz now...

November 2020 Product Release Notes

November 2020 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current product information, visit the BitTitan Help Center.

New Enhancements for SharePoint Online Migrations

New Enhancements for SharePoint Online Migrations

Great news! Partners using MigrationWiz to migrate SharePoint Online data between tenants now have a faster, higher fidelity experience and a dedicated license option for these projects. For years, MigrationWiz has been the tool of choice for migrating mail,...

October 2020 Product Release Notes

October 2020 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about new features, improvements, and bug fixes for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. 

Teams Takeover! 3 Ways to Save Big on Teams Migrations

Teams Takeover! 3 Ways to Save Big on Teams Migrations

Teams Takeover! 3 Ways to Save Big on Teams Migrations From now until the end of the year, MigrationWiz licenses for Microsoft Teams tenant-to-tenant migrations are only $40 per team – that’s a savings of more than 45%. Think of the possibilities! Here are just three...

Feature Spotlight: Hybrid Scheduler in MigrationWiz

Feature Spotlight: Hybrid Scheduler in MigrationWiz

The release of Hybrid Exchange Management features to MigrationWiz this fall has already helped many customers in their transition from on-prem Exchange to Microsoft 365. We're not looking to re-engineer the entire hybrid process, but instead bring additional project...

Ignite 2020 Recap: Three Key Microsoft 365 Announcements

Ignite 2020 Recap: Three Key Microsoft 365 Announcements

Just like many events this year, Ignite 2020 went virtual! We know you may have grown tired of attending online and opted for the on-demand sessions to watch at your own pace (and hey, at least we can avoid the crappy conference coffee). Lucky for you, the BitTitan...

On-Demand Webinar: Getting Started with MigrationWiz

On-Demand Webinar: Getting Started with MigrationWiz

Are you new to MigrationWiz or about to start your first migration project? We've all been there. In this new on-demand webinar, we go back to the basics with a BitTitan technical expert. Learn about important pre-migration steps and how to navigate through...

August 2020 Product Release Notes

August 2020 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about new features, improvements, and bug fixes for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. 

July 2020 Product Release Notes

July 2020 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about new features, improvements, and bug fixes for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. 

June 2020 Product Release Notes

June 2020 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about new features, improvements, and bug fixes for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center.  New Scenario: Hybrid Exchange...

Remote Work: Looking at the Long-Term Future

Remote Work: Looking at the Long-Term Future

For many years, prognosticators have predicted a future where large segments of the workforce work remotely, reducing office and other overhead costs while giving workers flexibility that improves satisfaction and retention. It has been a slow, steady march. Since...

Fast Track to Remote Work: Cloud Migration via MSPs

Fast Track to Remote Work: Cloud Migration via MSPs

Moving key applications, file stores and office productivity suites to the cloud is fundamental to enabling remote work. In the past, businesses made these shifts as part of digital transformation initiatives that were often months or even years in the making. For...

Why Use Microsoft Teams?

Why Use Microsoft Teams?

Collaboration and teamwork are how business gets done. More and more businesses have dispersed teams. They’re spread across multiple offices and satellites, and extend to remote-access workers who work part time or full-time from home, and road warriors who are...

Microsoft Teams Adoption Tips

Microsoft Teams Adoption Tips

Microsoft Teams introduces a new way to collaborate within your organization, but every organization is different. That’s why it’s best to roll out Microsoft Teams gradually and get a feel for what works and what doesn’t before you commit the entire organization. Also...

Move Now: Your Remote Workforce Enablement Kit

Move Now: Your Remote Workforce Enablement Kit

Fully-Remote Migrations when Speed is of Essence As work-from-home orders were implemented back in the spring as a response to the global pandemic, some of our colleagues feared cloud migration projects would be cancelled or set on the back burner. Many companies did...

MSPs Talk About the Power of Automation

MSPs Talk About the Power of Automation

All processes start as manual ones. OK, that may not actually be true, but when you’re tackling a task for the first time, you probably don’t know that it’s destined to happen a lot in the future. The first time you do it, it’s manual. You may not know every step...

Demo: Hybrid Exchange Management with MigrationWiz

Demo: Hybrid Exchange Management with MigrationWiz

With new capabilities now available in MigrationWiz, we offer a single console for hybrid consultants and internal IT teams to manage and monitor their hybrid migration projects. In this demo, BitTitan Product Architect Mark Rochester walks through the core components...

May 2020 Product Release Notes

May 2020 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about new features, improvements, and bug fixes for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center.   

ESG Research Results: 2020 Managed Services Landscape

ESG Research Results: 2020 Managed Services Landscape

With business models transforming, MSPs must adapt to stay viable. That's why they’re placing strategic bets on outsourced services, security, and software more than ever before. According to Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), “MSPs now have strong vendor preferences...

Partner Spotlight: Champion Solutions Group

Partner Spotlight: Champion Solutions Group

Champion Solutions Group and their cloud business unit, MessageOps, is a longstanding cloud and managed service provider headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida. Over the last ten years, the company has migrated more than six million mailboxes into Office 365. In a...

September 2020 Product Release Notes

September 2020 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about new features, improvements, and bug fixes for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. 

White Paper: Comparing Free v. Paid Migration Solutions

White Paper: Comparing Free v. Paid Migration Solutions

Over the years, first-party migration solutions have emerged from Microsoft and Google to assist with the transition to Office 365 and G Suite. For some projects or partners, these solutions may cover the necessary bases. Yet there are clear limitations with these...

April 2020 Product Release Notes

April 2020 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about new features, improvements, and bug fixes for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center.  New Endpoint: G Suite (Gmail API) now...

Skype to Microsoft Teams Transition: Getting Ready

Skype to Microsoft Teams Transition: Getting Ready

Skype for Business Online will be retired on July 31, 2021. After that date, it will no longer be accessible and new users will be onboarded directly to its successor, Microsoft Teams. While there has been no announcement for the on-premises version of Skype for...

Enabling a Remote Workforce: Tips and Tricks

Enabling a Remote Workforce: Tips and Tricks

IT has always been the backbone of business operations. Now the pressure is on to enable remote workforces while maintaining business continuity. We’re here to help. We've seen a surge of customers with urgent projects triggered by the need to support a remote...

Migrations During COVID-19: What MSPs Need to Know

Migrations During COVID-19: What MSPs Need to Know

This article will be updated periodically to reflect changing market conditions or policies as communicated by Microsoft. Last updated: January 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced countless organizations to rely on cloud technologies and services for remote work,...

The Accelerated Rise of the Cloud Collaboration Platform

The Accelerated Rise of the Cloud Collaboration Platform

2020 was already shaping up to be the year of the cloud collaboration platform – a new wave of software designed to connect people with information and displace the traditional methods of email and voice. Microsoft and Slack PR teams hustled to brag about daily active...

Survey Says: High Marks for MigrationWiz®

Survey Says: High Marks for MigrationWiz®

The tools for communication and collaboration, and how they’re deployed, are ever evolving, so we can’t stand still when it comes to MigrationWiz. To ensure sure our product and support resources are keeping up, we listen to our customers, who are one of our best...

February 2020 Product Release Notes

February 2020 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about new features, improvements, and bug fixes for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center.   

Microsoft Teams Migration Tips: Pointers for Success

Microsoft Teams Migration Tips: Pointers for Success

Since we added Microsoft Teams migration capability to MigrationWiz® in July 2019, we’ve seen more than 4,000 Teams projects to completion. It was inevitable that we would learn a thing or two about the keys to ensuring complete and successful migrations. It’s time to...

What We’re Reading: February 2020

What We’re Reading: February 2020

Welcome to the February edition of “What We’re Reading,” where we break down top public cloud and channel stories that could impact our global partner base. Let us know what trends you’re keeping your eye on or drop your thoughts into the comment section...

Roadshow Recaps from Microsoft Ignite: The Tour

Roadshow Recaps from Microsoft Ignite: The Tour

The BitTitan team is hitting the road in 2020, attending several Microsoft Ignite roadshow events to connect with our global customer base. Stay tuned for updates from stops including Copenhagen, Singapore, Syndey, and Amsterdam.   Microsoft Ignite: Toronto Ignite...

January 2020 Product Release Notes

January 2020 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about new features, improvements, and bug fixes for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. For additional questions, visit...

December 2019 Product Release Notes

December 2019 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about new features, improvements, and bug fixes for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. For additional questions, visit...

Recapping ESPC 2019!

The 2019 European SharePoint, Office 365, & Azure Conference (ESPC) 2019 in Prague opened with a spectacular fire-dance performance. Then, Jeff Teper, Microsoft CVP of Office 365, took the stage in front of a full house of over 1,500 visitors from across Europe....

Now Migrate to Gmail with Google API or IMAP!

Now Migrate to Gmail with Google API or IMAP!

Earlier this year, Google™ launched their Cloud Partner Advantage program with the intent of recruiting new partners to move customers into the Google cloud ecosystem. With this partner recruitment effort, there is an increased demand on IT service providers who will...

November 2019 Product Release Notes

November 2019 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about new features, improvements, and bug fixes for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. For additional questions, visit...

On-Demand Webinar: Smart Strategies for Teams Migration

On-Demand Webinar: Smart Strategies for Teams Migration

Ready to migrate Microsoft Teams? “Smart Strategies for Teams Migrations” is now available in our on-demand webinar library.  In this broadcast, we break down the best practices and pre/post migration steps to facilitate a smooth transition of Microsoft’s popular...

Event Preview: Microsoft Ignite 2019

Microsoft Ignite arrives in Orlando November 4-8th, bringing BitTitan together with technology leaders and practitioners from around the world for four days of visionary discussions and hands-on learning. Both the Voleer and MigrationWiz teams will be in attendance to...

September 2019 Product Release Notes

September 2019 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. For additional questions, visit the Community...

Modern Authentication for MigrationWiz

Modern Authentication for MigrationWiz

BitTitan now supports Modern Authentication for Office 365 endpoints used for Mailbox migrations. Modern Authentication provides a more secure authentication mechanism for registered applications to connect to Azure Active Directory and Office 365. For more...

Video: How to Add or Redeem Licenses in MigrationWiz

Video: How to Add or Redeem Licenses in MigrationWiz

Purchasing BitTitan licenses through a distributor or redeeming a coupon code? In a new video tutorial, we walk through the steps for adding and/or redeeming licenses in MigrationWiz. We also cover free BitTitan account registration, in-product guidance, and where to...

DeploymentPro AMA: Outlook Configuration Discussion

DeploymentPro AMA: Outlook Configuration Discussion

A major benefit of BitTitan's User Migration Bundle is access to DeploymentPro, our automatic Outlook configuration tool. This solution helps teams save time and effort post-migration while preserving overall margins on a project. Recently, Customer Success Engineer...

The Handbook for Cross-Tenant Teams Migrations

The Handbook for Cross-Tenant Teams Migrations

With Microsoft Teams quickly gaining adoption in the Office 365 suite, tenant-to-tenant migration projects now include a new workload. Not all organizations have made the leap to Teams - but those that have now store valuable business data and documents inside Teams...

Planning Ahead for Exchange 2010 End of Support

Planning Ahead for Exchange 2010 End of Support

Editor's update: Microsoft announced they are extending end of support for Exchange 2010 to October 13, 2020 due to "an extensive number of Exchange customers" on this instance. Learn more below about migration opportunities and ways to plan around this new deadline

July 2019 Product Release Notes

July 2019 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. For additional questions, visit the Community...

Feature Spotlight: Microsoft Teams Assessment

Feature Spotlight: Microsoft Teams Assessment

One of the best strategies to ensure a successful migration is effective planning during the pre-migration phase. Recently, BitTitan introduced new capabilities to support the migration of Teams instances between Office 365 tenants. You can learn more about that...

Inspire 2019 Recap: Here’s What You Missed

Inspire 2019 Recap: Here’s What You Missed

Microsoft’s annual global partner conference wrapped up last week in Las Vegas. As in previous years, Inspire featured major announcements from the Redmond giant and its vast network of partners, including BitTitan. We know not everyone can (or wants) to make a trip...

Demo: Migrating Microsoft Teams with MigrationWiz

Demo: Migrating Microsoft Teams with MigrationWiz

In the video below, BitTitan experts outline the flow for configuring and launching a tenant-to-tenant migration that includes Microsoft Teams. This video includes a look at our built-in, pre-migration assessment of the source Teams instance, the simple flow through...

April 2019 Product Release Notes

April 2019 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. For additional questions, visit the Community...

White Paper: How to Market and Sell MigrationWIz

White Paper: How to Market and Sell MigrationWIz

Migrations to a cloud office suite are a key part of a broader digital transformation plan. They can also be a great source for project-based revenue with better-than-average margins - but only if you package the services correctly. In a new white paper from BitTitan,...

February 2019 Product Release Notes

February 2019 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. For additional questions, visit the Community...

Migrate to G Suite with MigrationWiz

Migrate to G Suite with MigrationWiz

Initially launched in 2006, Google's package of cloud office applications known as G Suite has quickly risen as one of the few viable alternatives to Microsoft's Office 365. Despite its underdog status, Google has made great strides to introduce new features and...

Meet up with BitTitan at Ignite London

Meet up with BitTitan at Ignite London

Next stop, London! Microsoft Ignite - The Tour makes its way to the UK this week, February 26 and 27, at the ExCel London conference center in East London. Part of a roadshow series extending from the flagship Microsoft Ignite event in November, Ignite London offers...

January 2019 Product Release Notes

January 2019 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. For additional questions, visit the Community...

5 Trends Channel Players Should Anticipate in 2019

5 Trends Channel Players Should Anticipate in 2019

This article originally appeared in Channel Partners.  It’s valuable to think about what 2019 is likely to bring as we take stock of the major events of 2018. While it’s impossible to know for certain what will happen, thinking about the possible trends can be very...

Survey sheds light on migration opportunities for MSPs

Survey sheds light on migration opportunities for MSPs

Recently, a group of companies that support MSPs — including BitTitan — teamed up with Osterman Research. The objective was to learn about the needs of organizations that had already migrated or had near-term plans to migrate to Office 365. Here’s an overview of the...

December 2019 Product Release Notes

December 2019 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. For additional questions, visit the Community...

How to Configure Outlook for Office 365

How to Configure Outlook for Office 365

Migration experts know the work doesn't stop after the final delta pass. While it's great to have a seamless cutover and find all the data in place on the Destination, there can be a significant amount of work after the migration to help end users get settled. Part of...

Azure in Africa: New Regions Impact Growth, Migrations

Azure in Africa: New Regions Impact Growth, Migrations

Technologists across Africa have reason to celebrate this New Year.  As Microsoft’s target date for the availability of Azure data centers in Cape Town and Johannesburg approaches, big changes are in store for the region. This development not only brings new job and...

Bundle Up for the Holidays with BitTitan

Bundle Up for the Holidays with BitTitan

Raise your hand if the office crowd thins out as the New Year approaches. A normally unproductive block for most organizations outside of retail, the end of December is a wonderful time for one group in particular: IT teams. With many workers out of the office and...

Introducing WalkMe Guides for MigrationWiz

Introducing WalkMe Guides for MigrationWiz

Migration projects are inherently complex. Your migration solution should be the opposite. MigrationWiz, the industry’s leading cloud migration solution, just got even easier to use with the introduction of WalkMe. Through carefully curated guides and step-by-step...

Migration Guide: Office 365 to G Suite

Migration Guide: Office 365 to G Suite

Promises of security, collaboration, and a lower price point have continued to guide customers away from Microsoft's established productivity suite, particularly in the SMB sector, and towards Google's G Suite. Whether G Suite is your Source or...

On-Demand Webinar: OneDrive to OneDrive

On-Demand Webinar: OneDrive to OneDrive

Now On-Demand: OneDrive Migration Checklist Guess what? OneDrive is now the most commonly used cloud storage service in the workplace, ahead of other solutions like Google Drive, Box, and DropBox.

Cloud Movers: We Like the Heavy Lifting

Cloud Movers: We Like the Heavy Lifting

Let’s face it: moving isn’t fun. Relocating to a new home or city might be an exciting prospect, but the thought of physically transporting all of your possessions from one location to another is just the opposite. It’s time-consuming, it’s exhausting, and it’s a...

Video: Migrating to G Suite From Office 365

Video: Migrating to G Suite From Office 365

Your customer has options when it comes to productivity suites and cloud providers. Your migration solution should be able to support them all. MigrationWiz offers the industry's most extensive roster of Sources and Destinations, including support for migrations...

Documenting the Details with Automated Runbooks

This is the eighth installment in a new series on the BitTitan blog, “The Complete MSP,” built to help IT professionals stay ahead of the Azure curve and accelerate the evolution of your customers’ solutions.  In previous posts, we covered the growing professional and...

Project Sharing For MigrationWiz is Here!

Project Sharing For MigrationWiz is Here!

You asked for it. We built it. MigrationWiz®, the industry's leading cloud-based migration solution, now allows multiple team members to collaborate on individual migration projects through newly released capabilities called Project Sharing. Building off the momentum...

Blue Magic: Wield the Power of the Runbook

This is the sixth installment in a new series on the BitTitan blog, “The Complete MSP,” built to help IT professionals stay ahead of the Azure curve and accelerate the evolution of your customers’ solutions.  In previous posts, we covered the growing professional and...

PowerShell Scripting: The Cure to Digital Déjà Vu

PowerShell Scripting: The Cure to Digital Déjà Vu

This is the fifth installment in a new series on the BitTitan blog, “The Complete MSP,” built to help IT professionals stay ahead of the Azure curve and accelerate the evolution of your customers’ solutions.  In previous posts, we covered the growing professional and...

The Download on Digital Transformation

The Download on Digital Transformation

“Digital transformation” is arguably one of the most buzzed about buzz phrases in technology – in existence, perhaps. But, what does it really mean? According to global analyst firm IDC, “Digital transformation is a complex process that changes how enterprises work...

Azure Security: 5 Planning Tips for New Environments

Azure Security: 5 Planning Tips for New Environments

This is the third installment in a new series on the BitTitan blog, “The Complete MSP,” built to help IT professionals stay ahead of the Azure curve and accelerate the evolution of your customers’ solutions.  In previous posts, we covered the growing professional and...

When Do YOU Want to Make Money?

When Do YOU Want to Make Money?

Every self-appointed expert sings the praises of Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR). There’s no doubt it’s great to sell once and get paid every month for years. But what IT channel partner doesn’t want revenue right away, too?  Here’s how to craft your next project...

You Can Get There From Here – If You Do So Gradually

You Can Get There From Here – If You Do So Gradually

This is the second installment in a new series on the BitTitan blog, “The Complete MSP,” built to help IT professionals stay ahead of the Azure curve and accelerate the evolution of your customers’ solutions.  Other posts in this series cover the growing professional...

Inspire 2018 Recap: What You Missed

Inspire 2018 Recap: What You Missed

Want to learn more about new features for MigrationWiz or MSPComplete demoed at Inspire? Stay tuned for coming product updates from BitTitan next month! And just like that, another Microsoft Inspire is in the books. Over the course of this year’s event, the BitTitan...

Announcing the 2018 Titan Award Winners

Announcing the 2018 Titan Award Winners

The cloud technology landscape has changed drastically since BitTitan introduced MigrationWiz in 2009. What hasn’t changed is our commitment to helping our customers around the world build successful and profitable service businesses. And while it’s easy to get caught...

June 2018 Product Release Notes

June 2018 Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. For additional questions, visit the Community...

Blue Gold: The Azure Gold Rush and How to Cash In

Blue Gold: The Azure Gold Rush and How to Cash In

This is the first installment of a new series on the BitTitan blog, "The Complete MSP," built to help IT professionals stay ahead of the Azure curve and accelerate the evolution of your customers’ solutions. Click here to view all posts in this series - and stay tuned...

Gmail to Office 365: Four Essential Migration Steps

Gmail to Office 365: Four Essential Migration Steps

With cloud adoption on the rise, Gartner estimates more than 85 percent of businesses will have deployed Microsoft Office 365 by 2020. And not all these folks are coming from on-prem or hosted Exchange. As we see an increasing number of G Suite to Office 365 migration...

Inspire 2018: What You Need to Know

Inspire 2018: What You Need to Know

There are a few things you can count on every July: Independence Day, high temperatures, and the largest partner event of the year: Microsoft Inspire! 2018’s event will be hosted in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino from July 15-19. Over those five...

Sneak Peek: DattoCon 2018

Sneak Peek: DattoCon 2018

Got plans next week? The BitTitan team will be beating the heat in Austin for Datto’s annual user conference, DattoCon! Over 1,500 MSPs will be in attendance for technical sessions, business best practices, and some of the top networking opportunities of any channel...

May Product Release Notes

May Product Release Notes

Product Release Notes contain information about updates, upgrades and new features for BitTitan solutions and services. For the most current information, visit the Product Announcements section in the BitTitan Help Center. For additional questions, visit the Community...

“Here Come the Gurkhas”

“Here Come the Gurkhas”

Humans love storytelling, be it through a play, a novel, or a well-delivered joke. Even in this age where touchscreens and other technologies dominate our attention spans, few things are able to captivate and teach more effectively than a good story. The May speaker...

What You Need to Know About BitTitan and GDPR

What You Need to Know About BitTitan and GDPR

Whether it involves your customer’s data during a migration or our own internal database, we take an intentional approach to privacy and security. This includes steps like providing HIPAA-compliant SKUs in MigrationWiz; PCI- compliant datacenters; and Privacy Shield...

BitTitan Adds Zedsphere to European Partner Roster

BitTitan Adds Zedsphere to European Partner Roster

If you are a managed service provider in the UK or Europe, there's now another option to tap BitTitan for your next project. BitTitan has partnered with Zedsphere, the cloud services provider for MSPs, to offer MigrationWiz and MSPComplete licenses through their...

GDPR Prep: Get Ahead of Data Compliance Rules

GDPR Prep: Get Ahead of Data Compliance Rules

This article originally posted on The Enterprisers Project.  Businesses with European customers have a new line item in their budgets for 2018: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Passed in 2016, GDPR gives a significant boost to data protection...

5 Ways MSPs Can Add Automation to Their Workflows

5 Ways MSPs Can Add Automation to Their Workflows

This article originally posted on Channel Futures. Automation is the name of the game in today's IT world. If you're an MSP and are missing out on opportunities to automate, you're undercutting your efficiency, as well as your image in the eyes of customers. Here's a...

Troubleshooting Common Cloud Migration Errors

Troubleshooting Common Cloud Migration Errors

Even with appropriate pre-migration planning, mapping, and testing, it’s more than likely you will encounter some type of error during your project. These can range from minor hiccups around permissions or incorrect data entry to throttling and endpoint issues. When...

PowerShell for MigrationWiz

PowerShell for MigrationWiz

Did you know that BitTitan offers PowerShell support for MigrationWiz?  Speed up migration execution and experience easier migration project management in MigrationWiz. Unfamiliar with PowerShell? Here's a quick list of benefits it offers:

Leading with Values: Meet Our Culture Titans

Leading with Values: Meet Our Culture Titans

Here at BitTitan, we subscribe to the idea that happy employees lead to happy customers. As an organization, we have a vision to foster an environment of engaged, empowered employees that results in zero turnover. While this may seem like a lofty bar, that’s the...

BitTitan Named 2018 Eastside Business of the Year

BitTitan Named 2018 Eastside Business of the Year

BitTitan started 11 years ago in a Kirkland garage belonging to Geeman Yip. While our solutions serve customers in over 150 countries, the Eastside has always been home. Today, BitTitan is proud to announce the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce named BitTitan the 2018...

Pulling Back The Cost Curtain of Automation

Pulling Back The Cost Curtain of Automation

Amidst the wave of change from digital transformation initiatives, business leaders across industries remain focused on ways to improve their bottom line. For the majority of organizations, this takes shape in two ways: increasing revenue through new customers,...

Automate Outlook Configuration for Office 365 Remotely

Automate Outlook Configuration for Office 365 Remotely

During a migration project, manually configuring Outlook clients to point to Office 365 can be a painstaking, tedious process. DeploymentPro is a tool BitTitan created that enables you to automate Outlook configuration through remote access from a single web-based...

Exchange to Office 365 Migration: Six Best Practices

Exchange to Office 365 Migration: Six Best Practices

Since Office 365’s market debut in 2011, moving from Exchange to the cloud productivity suite is one of the most frequent migrations performed each year. Despite its popularity, each migration project is different and presents unique challenges before, during, and...

What, why, and when do we automate?

What, why, and when do we automate?

While automation isn’t the newest form of technology in the press today, it is arguably primed to have the greatest impact on how people and businesses operate in the next decade. From sleek self-driving cars to redefined retail models, technologists and consumers...

5 IT Ops management trends to watch in 2018

5 IT Ops management trends to watch in 2018

As businesses continue to contend with digital disruption, IT is facing an upheaval as it evolves from a support to a leadership role. As an IT professional, your job now has an impact on customer service, user experience, and even the company culture. To get a...

Vendor Predictions 2018 Part 2: Cloud

Vendor Predictions 2018 Part 2: Cloud

Last week, vendors shared with Channelnomics predictions for the key areas of technology they think will rock the channel landscape in 2018, from storage and automation to the Internet of Things and more. Cloud, however, is a topic so big that you can't jumpstart the...

The BitTitan Guide to Denver for Elevate ’17

The BitTitan Guide to Denver for Elevate ’17

We’re thrilled to host our first annual user conference in Denver, which we chose for its amazing features and hidden gems. Whether you’re arriving early or plan to explore the city after Elevate, we’ve got some hand-picked highlights for you. Missing the caffeine...

Sneak Peek: What We Built for Elevate 17

Update: No longer a sneak peek, these new features are live! At Elevate, we showcased the new automation capabilities for IT service delivery with the MSPComplete platform. Learn more about how it works here. 

Embracing Automation for IT Services Delivery

Embracing Automation for IT Services Delivery

We don't think many would disagree that automation is important; we’ve seen what it can do in manufacturing and other industries. Yet, automation is often a double-edged sword: As processes become cheaper, faster, and more predictable, we reduce the need for people....

Three Lessons to Unlearn as a Modern MSP

Three Lessons to Unlearn as a Modern MSP

Update: Elevate '17 was a great success! Want to be the first to hear about Elevate '18? Sign up here. On October 16, BitTitan partners will gather in Denver, Colorado for Elevate, the first-ever conference for the Modern MSP.  We'll share expertise, explore industry...

Daring Demo Video: Device Management Agent

Daring Demo Video: Device Management Agent

Daring Demo Video: Device Management Agent In this Daring Demo video, Darrell "Jekyll" Webster and Jethro "Brainiac" Seghers explain how the Device Management Agent (DMA) allows you to monitor and assess your customer's computers and resources through the MSPComplete...

Video: Experts Discuss Creating Recurring Revenue

Video: Experts Discuss Creating Recurring Revenue

Recurring revenue starts with delivering recurring value. Ongoing managed services are an opportunity to better align your offerings to customer needs and to examine your delivery process. When MSPs identify where existing or new customers can benefit from continued...

How Systems Integrators Embraced The Cloud

How Systems Integrators Embraced The Cloud

With the advent of the hybrid cloud, enterprise customers saw a valuable opportunity to integrate their on-premises data center with cheaper, Agile implementations which were easily scalable in the cloud. To meet this emergent customer need, SIs (Systems integrators)...

VARs Arise From The Peat Bog

VARs Arise From The Peat Bog

It's the 1990s. Enter the World Wide Web and email. MS Windows is on all IBM PCs. And GPS is fully operational. The iMac happens. It's also the decade of the Value-added Reseller (VAR). In the 1990s, we were seeing a huge partnership between traditional hardware...

The SaaS Sales Model That Sails At 80 Knots

The SaaS Sales Model That Sails At 80 Knots

I am very fortunate to have worked with many SaaS organizations, either for a three-month consulting period, or a full six months to a year service to help them in bootstrapping their sales and marketing engine. We believe that SaaS selling is a lot like sailing. I...

Recurring Revenue Sales Plans That Rock

Recurring Revenue Sales Plans That Rock

Your sales plan won't work in a recurring revenue world for two reasons. You’ve taken your transactional-based sales plan and perhaps altered it slightly. No matter how good the mechanics of the plan are, it will not provide incentive for your sales professionals to...

Building Cloud Services Recurring Revenue: 5 Metrics

Building Cloud Services Recurring Revenue: 5 Metrics

Revenue, profit and cash flow are the ultimate measurements that validate how you are truly doing as a business. In this brief, I want to explore some supporting metrics that are not part of an organization's day-to-day planning. Business Valuation and Worth If you’re...

The How Of Fixing Slow Networks, For Your Cloud’s Sake

The How Of Fixing Slow Networks, For Your Cloud’s Sake

The reality is that more network activity is moving to the WAN and Internet. And visibility and control of network traffic is becoming more critical. You’ve no doubt had the call from your end user saying the network is slow, their desktop is taking ages to load, apps...

Begun The Cloud War Has!

Begun The Cloud War Has!

The Cloud War?! It’s not quite as dramatic as Yoda ominously announcing the start of the Clone Wars. It's legacy vendors and distributors (who rely on channel partners for a huge amount of their sales) rushing to claim business with Value-Added Resellers (VARs) and IT...

Crafting a Recurring-Revenue Sales Plan

Crafting a Recurring-Revenue Sales Plan

The right sales plan plays a vital role in achieving sustainable and growing revenue for any business. As an organization transitions to a recurring revenue approach, the right sales compensation program becomes even more crucial. The information and views outlined...

The Gross Profit Challenge

The Gross Profit Challenge

What obstacles do value-added resellers, IT solution providers and managed service providers face? The old profit pools are shrinking, and if you’re a leading channel company you are under pressure to sustain your blended gross margin objectives. Over the years,...

We Asked Our Developers: What Work Annoys You?

We Asked Our Developers: What Work Annoys You?

At BitTitan, if you ask one of our developers how long it will take to fix something, a popular answer is “two hours or six days.” It’s harder to convey in text than through voice, but rest assured there’s a dash of sarcasm in there. We're on a mission to end annoying...

The Five Stages Of VAR Grief

The Five Stages Of VAR Grief

It is traumatic to lose what once was, a loved one, a cherished pet or that great pair of blue jeans. It’s an undesired change in our lives. Many VARs, IT Solution Providers (ITSPs) and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are grappling with how to deal with the grief of...

Hybrid VAR – Don’t Overreact, But …

Hybrid VAR – Don’t Overreact, But …

The increasing demand for cloud services is forcing value-added resellers (VARs) and solution providers to assess their current business models and the services they provide to their clientele. Many times, that leads to talk of becoming a new kind of VAR or a "Hybrid...

Solving the Profitability Problem: Automation

Solving the Profitability Problem: Automation

Gartner predicts that by 2020, a corporate "no-cloud" policy will be as rare as a "no-Internet" policy is today. What else is trending up? Competition in the channel—and frustration, too. The outlook on cloud has shifted as winners and losers have emerged.

It’s time to #EndAnnoyingWork

Even with today's technology and tools, there are still big problems facing you as an engineer. These problems keep you from reaching your full potential -- no matter how hard you work to deliver for your customers. They can't be solved by adding migration workloads...

3 Truths Every Technology Start-Up Should Know

3 Truths Every Technology Start-Up Should Know

As an entrepreneur and former head of marketing at a SaaS startup that sold to one of the country’s leading MSPs, I understand the challenges of growing a technology start-up. Lack of time, financial or human resources, and expertise often cause the marketing function...

A New Strategy for the Channel Sales Leader

A New Strategy for the Channel Sales Leader

A Prescription for a Good Night’s Sleep Whether you are a channel sales leader or on the leadership team of a VAR, ITSP, or MSP business, the prescriptive approach I’ve outlined below is both relevant and practical. Many of the remedies are hard to palate because...

Five Ways to Corner the Market for Office 365

Five Ways to Corner the Market for Office 365

This shouldn’t surprise you: A recent article by Windows Central said there are more than 60 million people now using Office 365 at work. If you’re an Office 365 reseller, this is great news. It also means you’ve got to sharpen your strategy to compete with all the...

Make 2017 the Year of Recurring Revenue

Make 2017 the Year of Recurring Revenue

We’ve said it again and again: one-off, project-based revenue won’t sustain profitability in the cloud era. It’s time to walk the walk, but you don’t have to do it alone. We’re here to help.   The case for recurring revenue is undeniable.

The Importance of Being a Vendor-Neutral MSP

The Importance of Being a Vendor-Neutral MSP

When a client is looking to implement new technology, it can feel like they’re being sold to from all directions. Every company with a service is eager to get their business, including yours. It can be inescapable and overwhelming to them. How do you navigate your...

2017: The Year of Cloud Revenue

2017: The Year of Cloud Revenue

It's that time of year when we reflect back on the past year and look to want we want from the year ahead. While 2016 brought cloud further into enterprise applications, infrastructure and data, there are still VARs and IT solution providers who think that cloud won’t...

5 Ways for MSPs to Introduce Automation

5 Ways for MSPs to Introduce Automation

Automation is on the rise as a way to increase revenue. As an MSP, how do you drive greater automation in your services offerings? If you’re still trying to identify what to automate, ZDNet—with the help of Gartner Analyst Rob Dunie—has five key ways to introduce...

How the Modern MSP Bundles Like a Boss

How the Modern MSP Bundles Like a Boss

Bundling services is one of the hallmarks of a successful modern MSP. And knowing how to make bundles like a boss can have a directly positive impact on your revenue. We often use the analogy that SMB clients of any size or type should look at their cloud technology...

Cloud 101: A Primer for the SMB

Cloud 101: A Primer for the SMB

Cloud computing is any technology delivered over the internet that historically has been delivered at the client site. Great – but what does that mean? The cloud has been a buzzword for a few years now, but cloud computing has been marred with confusion, with SMBs...

Happy New Year!! What’s Your 2017 Prediction?

Happy New Year!! What’s Your 2017 Prediction?

Wishing everyone a spectacular New Year! Where are IT Services Headed this Year? Do you foresee changes in cloud technology? Impacts of new technology on managed services? Advancements or setbacks for IT services providers? Email your predictions to...

Marketing Essentials for the Modern MSP, Part 2

Marketing Essentials for the Modern MSP, Part 2

This is the second installment of our marketing essentials recap for the modern MSP, looking at the final three of six articles by Saher Ghattas from ModernMSP.com. Read our first post here. In our last post, we looked a lot at the marketing organization in terms of...

Marketing Essentials for the Modern MSP, Part 1

Marketing Essentials for the Modern MSP, Part 1

As the new year approaches, are you thinking about how to modernize your sales and marketing efforts? Saher Ghattas, a sales and marketing expert for MSPs, recently finished a six-part series for ModernMSP.com, MSP Marketing Essentials. In our own dual posts, we'll...

How to Sell More Azure as an MSP/CSP

How to Sell More Azure as an MSP/CSP

Microsoft Azure is a gold mine, and just like mining gold, there are many ways to sell an Azure project. If you’re looking to sell the value of Azure to your customer, here are a few things to consider for an MSP or CSP (cloud service provider). Starting the...

A Christmas Carol for ModernMSPs

A Christmas Carol for ModernMSPs

VAR, IT Solutions Providers and Managed Service Providers On a frigid and foggy Christmas Eve, a shrewd, hard-working, good-spirited businessperson named Vincent Andrew Reseller (his friends used to call him VAR), works meticulously in his counting-house. Outside the...

VARs, MSPs, and Technology as a Service

VARs, MSPs, and Technology as a Service

One of the first things you'll likely hear when you introduce yourself to someone as a modern MSP is, "What is...what does that...huh?" It's an understandable response. If the person or potential customer you're talking with is also familiar with VARs, then you have...