Case Study: Sitowise achieves unified document access and extended Office 365 retention with AvePoint FileShare Navigator & Cloud Backup

Sitowise FileShare Navigator Online and Office 365 Backup and Restore

Sitowise, a Finnish full‑service housing, infrastructure and construction firm of about 1,200 employees formed by a merger, inherited two siloed document environments—an on‑prem file share and SharePoint Online. A full migration was judged too disruptive and duplicating data impractical, yet the company needed a unified user experience plus reliable, long‑term retention and recovery to meet contractual and legal requirements.

Sitowise implemented AvePoint FileShare Navigator and Cloud Backup to present on‑prem files through SharePoint and extend Office 365 retention beyond the native 30 days. The deployment unified access without migrating data, supported large files, enabled long‑term and granular restores, sped recovery and reduced backup cost/time by about 50%, and is being expanded company‑wide.

Sitowise

Juho Kokko

Systems Specialist