Cloudiway Migration Platform vs. Quest Migration Manager & Migrator

Cloudiway excels in comples cross-tenant microsoft 365 migrations, especially with coexistence needs during data merges. It's also ideal for Slack to teams and archive migrations. However it is less suited for small scale or one off migrations due to cost and the time it takes to configure.

Dell ChangeBASE is well suited in migrating an OS to a new version, or 32/64-bit. It's also helpful when virtualizating workstations into Thin Clients for use with Citrix or other thin provisioning services.

Incentivized

• Email and File archive migration
• Google site migration
• Drive migration

• OS Patch Testing - We further used this to test Microsoft's Patch Tuesday releases before we put them in production.
• Web Dashboard - The latest version added a fully customization dashboard with widgets to give you an at-a-glance view.
• Application comparability - We used this to test our Windows XP to Windows 7 migration.

Incentivized

• Migrate mail boxes with full fidelity
• import legacy email archives
• transfer full slack stack

• Initial setup can be tricky - We needed to contact support for some help.
• Prior to the latest version, there wasn't an easy way to view all of our results. The new dashboard has rectified this.

Incentivized

Overall Experience:This wasn’t a standard migration, and honestly, I didn’t expect to find a platform that could handle this niche use case. But Cloudiway worked. We closed the transition in a secure and professional way

I see Cloudiway is a great solution for those who want to migrate and transfer there data, especially sensitive and very important valuable data to data storage. It's just a flexible, cost-effective tool for any budget, depending on the company's understanding of how to work with. That's our case. Another option was own scripting or maintaining the end users in the backend. This costs to much time to maintain (scripting) and has a big change of a Security breach. It was not an option for us either way.

Incentivized

Dell ChangeBASE is more costly when compared to Admin Studio, I believe the price was almost double. However, Admin Studio did not provide a comfortable level of support and we felt we were in better hands with Dell's patching schedule. Admin Studio wasn't able to answer our question on when they released software updates and how complex an upgrade would be.

Incentivized

• its easy to use
• reliable while we save lots of money
• very helpful for me

• ROI was seen after 10 months of use.
• Greatly sped up the application testing process by several weeks, and allowed our existing development team to continue working on other projects.

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