Case Study

Customer Location

Swedish Match Increases Office 365 Backup
Coverage Thanks To AvePoint Cloud Backup

Stockholm, Sweden

Success Highlights

Industry
Manufacturing• Fast onboarding and set up of Cloud Backup

Platform
Office 365

Critical Needs•

Easy automatic backup ofall Office 365 applications
and workloads•A solution that can scalealongside of their data
growth and provide fullbackup coverage.

Solution
AvePoint Cloud Backup•• Increased backup coverage of Office 365 data
• Leveraging their own storage allows them to scale their backup with unlimited
users

Customer Profile
Swedish Match develops, manufactures, and sells quality products withmarket-leading brands within snus and nicotine pouches without tobacco,moist snuff, chewing tobacco, cigars, matches and lighters. Swedish Matchemploys more than 5,000 employees, with production units in sevencountries and business in markets across the globe.

The Challenge
Swedish Match has been an early cloud adopter, having migrated to SharePoint
Online in 2013. They maintain a hybrid environment with their Exchange andnetwork drives on-premise, but plan to be fully invested into Office 365 by theend of 2019.
When they first migrated to SharePoint Online, they quickly realized the native
retention functionality did not support their needs and started evaluating thirdparty backup solutions.
To backup all their primary applications in Office 365, such as SharePoint Online,
Exchange Online, Microsoft Teams, they initially leveraged a third-party solution
from a different vendor.

“By far, our best experience withAvePoint has been the easy
onboarding allowing us to rest
assured that we have complete
backups if restoration of data
should be necessary,”-Peter Tenor
Infrastructure Architect
Swedish Match“Before moving to AvePoint Cloud Backup we used another cloud backup
solution for SharePoint Online. Our data growth exceeded the capacity ofthe solution and led to incomplete backups,” said Peter Tenor, Infrastructure
Architect at Swedish Match. “Also, restores were tricky as the tool wasn’t
easy for the backup operators to use.”

The AvePoint Solution
Swedish Match evaluated several third-party backup and recovery solutions over a
period of several months, before ultimately selecting AvePoint Cloud Backup.

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“We wanted to be confident that data was properly
backed up for all of our Office 365 data so weultimately selected AvePoint Cloud Backup,” says Peter.
Swedish Match also valued that Cloud Backup was afull SaaS solution with zero installation or agents.
“That is a really great benefit. The onboarding wasextremely fast and easy,” said Peter.
Swedish Match is leveraging Cloud Backup’s fullcapability to perform automatic incremental backups
across their environment four times daily. This includes
Office 365 Groups, OneDrive for Business, Exchange
Online, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Teams.
The option to bring-your-own-storage (BYOS) was also
extremely attractive to Swedish Match and they havedecided to use their own Azure BLOB storage.
Backup operators at Swedish Match have extensive
experience with restoring data down to the document
level through regular ongoing training.

About AvePoint
AvePoint accelerates your digital transformation
success. Over 16,000 companies and 6 million
SharePoint and Office 365 users worldwide trust
AvePoint software and services for their data
migration, management, and protection needs in thecloud, on-premises and hybrid environments. A fourtime Microsoft Partner of the Year, AvePoint is a
Microsoft Global ISV Partner and has been named tothe Inc. 500|5000 six times and the Deloitte
Technology Fast 500™ five times. Founded in 2001,
AvePoint is privately held and headquartered in Jersey
City, NJ.

AvePoint Sweden
Grev Turegatan 3
114 46 Stockholm, Sweden+46 (8) 44680492
www.avepoint.com/eu“For our backup operators it is a tool that’s easy towork with,” says Peter. “Restoring data is easy andfast.”
The Bottom Line
Swedish Match has been able to rest easy knowing
they have complete coverage of their Office 365workloads.
Set up was a breeze and by leveraging AvePoint Cloud
Backup, the company was able to boost their coveragecompared to their previous backup tool.
Moving forward, Swedish Match plan to evaluate
additional AvePoint solutions for their SharePoint andOffice 365 migration as well as ongoing management
and protection.
“It was an easy and fast onboarding and we can now
rest assured we have complete backups if restore ofdata should be necessary,” says Peter.

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