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Wellpoint Completes Cloud Migration With Microsoft Office 365

WellPoint has completed migration to the cloud that includes its internal productivity platform and more than 65,000 email boxes. WellPoint collaborated with Microsoft to deploy Microsoft Office 365, which allows associates to collaborate in a virtual environment, share desktop screen views, host virtual meetings, instant message and streamline communications. This yearlong process included a multiphase migration to the cloud environment. Office 365 allows the more than 37,000 WellPoint associates to communicate via chat, video and audio.

WellPoint’s affiliated health plans serve nearly 34 million members, more than 62 million people through subsidiaries.

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