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AvePoint
The Largest Microsoft 365 Data Management Solutions Provider
A full suite of SaaS solutions to migrate, manage and protect data
AvePoint is the largest Microsoft 365 data management solutions provider, offering a full suite of SaaS solutions to migrate, manage and protect data.
More than 8 million cloud users rely on Avepoint solutions to make their organisations more productive, compliant, and secure so they can collaborate with confidence.
Service providers can offer an extension and amplification of the native capabilities of Microsoft, allowing for increased adoption, ROI and a truly secure collaboration experience.
Founded in 2001, AvePoint is a five-time Global Microsoft Partner of the Year and headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.
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Solution Offerings
FLY Migration
Consolidate and migrate on-premises or cloud mail, files, and collaboration into Microsoft 365 cloud. Move, migrate, and consolidate legacy systems, cloud files, mail, and Microsoft 365 tenants into Microsoft 365 and SharePoint. Maintain data integrity and never compromise security.
Cloud Backup for M365, D365, SalesForce & Google Workspace
Cloud backup safeguards data and quick recovery of individual files and folders. Unlimited, automated backup service for customers’ M365, D365, SalesForce or Google Workspace assets.
Policies & Insights
Easily find, prioritize, fix, and enforce controls for permissions, membership, and configuration. All your workspaces, completely secure. Find, prioritize, fix, and enforce security controls across Teams, Groups, SharePoint, OneDrive and Exchange.
Crayon and AvePoint are better together.
The shift to cloud-based solutions is a megatrend. With so many workforces continuing to work remotely, the data landscape for end customers is changing at incredible speed.
We are focused on delivering the latest products and solutions to help our MSP partners respond to emerging data management needs with products and solutions that accelerate the cloud journey.
Our partnership is built on a mutual vision to support as many MSPs on their cloud journey as possible.
AvePoint Partner Program.
Our partner program was purpose-built for MSPs, VARs, Cloud Consultants, & IP Co-Creators to support your business and produce real revenue opportunities with seamless adoption of our technology.
Partners that work with us reap the benefits of having satisfied customers that provide a steady stream of revenue and who will continue to look to you for guidance, expertise, and technology.
Frequently Asked Questions
AvePoint provides data management solutions that migrate, manage and protect Microsoft 365 and SharePoint data so organisations can be more secure, productive and compliant.
Data Consolidation
First, organisations need to have their data consolidated within Microsoft 365 to remove siloes and boost productivity. That means they either need to move their data from on-premises data centres or consolidate multiple cloud collaboration platforms into a single Microsoft 365 environment.
Avepoint migration solutions ensure no critical business data is lost in the move, including information held within complex workloads like Microsoft Teams chats.
Manage data
Next, these organisations generate data at an exponential rate across their digital collaboration platforms. They need help managing their data. Our management solutions automate the tedious but critical tasks of managing, monitoring and enabling collaboration in digital workspaces.
Secure Data
In addition, with the ongoing threats and risks to their data, it is essential for organissations to ensure the security, exposure, and availability of their data meets internal or regulatory policies.
AvePoint and Microsoft enjoy a holistic alliance that incorporates technology, sales and marketing to ensure organisations can improve business productivity and realise their goals using Microsoft technologies.
Microsoft can’t be everything to everyone.
Their business model is to develop 80 percent of a solution that works for most and to have partners like AvePoint to address customer needs beyond what Microsoft offers. AvePoint provides the “last-mile” solutions to help organisations make their Microsoft 365 and other digital collaboration platforms more productive, compliant and secure.
Avepoint has done this better than any other company for almost 20 years. Avepoint has a very close symbiotic relationship with Microsoft and innovates alongside them.
Apart from being the top Microsoft Teams co-sell partner globally, Avepoint is a five time Microsoft Partner of the Year awardee. Avepoint has multiple Microsoft Regional Directors (RD) and Most Valuable Professionals (MVP) on staff and are among the few partners participating various advisory councils within Microsoft.
AvePoint Cloud is the only software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform that offers a comprehensive suite of solutions to manage the entire data lifecycle in Microsoft 365. Their cloud is hosted in multiple global Microsoft Azure data centres that provide regional data residency, cloud service resiliency and 99.9% availability.
AvePoint is committed to developing, implementing, and maintaining appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards within the products and services they provide and within their own systems as proven by their ISO 27001:2013 certification.
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