INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Microsoft wants to make it as easy as possible to migrate to Microsoft 365, and today the company announced it had purchased a Canadian
startup called Mover to help
The idea is to provide customers with a soup-to-nuts, cloud-based productivity package
Mover helps customers get files from another service into the Microsoft 365 cloud.As Jeff Tepper wrote in a post on the Official Microsoft
Blog announcing the acquisition, this is about helping customers get to the Microsoft cloud as quickly and smoothly as possible
OneDrive and SharePoint, enabling seamless file collaboration across Microsoft 365 apps and services, including the Office apps and
helps add to the migration tools already in place.Tony Byrne, founder and principal analyst at Real Story Group, says that moving files from
one system to another like this can be extremely challenging regardless of how you do it, and the file transfer mechanism is only part of it
It was founded in 2012 and raised $1 million, according to Crunchbase data
It counts some big clients as customers, including AutoDesk, Symantec and BuzzFeed.
