Case Study: National Development Council protects 1 TB of Office 365 data and cuts backup costs by 80% with AvePoint's DocAve Online

National Development Council Protects 1 TB of Microsoft® Office 365 Data and Reduces Backup Costs by 80% with DocAve® Online

The National Development Council (NDC), the oldest national non‑profit community and economic development organization in the U.S., moved its content to Microsoft Office 365 to improve collaboration for roughly 100 remote users. However, SharePoint Online’s limited native backup (fixed 12‑hour schedules, 90‑day retention, and restores only via Microsoft support) left about 1 TB of critical data without flexible, long‑term protection, and an on‑premises backup solution proved too costly and burdensome.

NDC implemented DocAve Online, an Azure‑hosted SaaS that automates full and incremental SharePoint Online backups with customizable schedules and extended retention, removing the need for in‑house maintenance. The solution met NDC’s SLAs, scaled with growth, freed IT time, and reduced Office 365 data protection costs by 80%.

National Development Council

Antonio Palumbo

CTO, National Development Council