AvePoint Fly
Fly is AvePoint’s cloud-migration software — move data into, between and across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace and Power Platform, with high fidelity (structure, metadata, permissions preserved), at scale. Handles cloud adoption, tenant-to-tenant (M&A) and cross-platform migrations.
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The AvePoint platform family
This page covers Fly — SaaS & cloud migration. The rest of AvePoint:
Quick facts
30-second orientation- Product
- Fly — SaaS & cloud migration
- Vendor
- AvePoint (founded 2001 · NASDAQ: AVPT)
- The category
- Cloud/SaaS migration (into, between, across)
- Moves
- M365, Google Workspace, Power Platform, on-prem
- Key uses
- M&A, cloud adoption, tenant-to-tenant, platform switch
- Fidelity
- Preserves structure, metadata, permissions
- Hosted
- Azure-hosted (SaaS) migration platform
- Part of
- AvePoint Confidence Platform (Modernization)
- Vs
- ShareGate, Quest, BitTitan, CloudFuze
- In India via
- TechBag — licensing, quotes, GST invoicing, support
Understand cloud migration before you buy it
Most product pages skip this. We start here — so you buy a capability, not a buzzword.
What is Fly?
AvePoint’s cloud-migration software — move data into, between and across M365, Google Workspace & Power Platform, with high fidelity, at scale.
Manual / lossy migration vs high-fidelity migration — the honest table
What consolidation actually replaces, dimension by dimension.
| Dimension | Unprotected / signature email | Fly (AvePoint) |
|---|---|---|
| Migration approach | Manual / basic tools | Purpose-built, high-fidelity |
| Fidelity | Lost metadata/permissions | Structure & permissions preserved |
| M&A (tenant-to-tenant) | Painful / risky | Reliable T2T migration |
| Platform switch | Hard cross-platform | Google ↔ M365 handled |
| Scale | Slow / heavy infra | Azure-hosted, at scale |
| Control | Fly blind | Plan, monitor, verify |
| Disruption | Prolonged, messy | Waved, low-disruption |
| After migration | Separate govern/protect | Confidence Platform lifecycle |
Fly runs high-fidelity migrations at scale — into M365, tenant-to-tenant (M&A), cross-platform — within AvePoint’s data-management platform (migrate then govern/protect). For the easiest SharePoint migration, compare ShareGate. TechBag advises honestly.
The five pieces of the platform
Vendors love diagrams; buyers need to know what they’re actually operating. Here’s the whole platform, demystified.
Assess & Plan
Fly assesses the source — data, volume, structure, dependencies — then maps source to destination, scopes waves and flags issues before the move.
Map & Transform
Content, users, permissions and structures are mapped to the destination, handling differences between platforms and tenants so data lands correctly.
Migrate at Scale
The Azure-hosted engine migrates at scale, keeping structure, metadata, permissions, versions and timestamps, across M365, Google Workspace, Power Platform and on-premises.
Monitor & Report
Real-time dashboards, progress tracking, error handling and detailed reports show exactly what has moved, what is pending and what needs attention.
Confidence Platform
Fly sits in the Modernization suite of AvePoint’s Confidence Platform, linking migration to governance and protection from a NASDAQ-listed vendor.
One SaaS migration engine — assess, map and move content, users and permissions, monitored until the cut-over.
Twelve capabilities. Plan, move, assure.
Fly moves your cloud data reliably and faithfully — cloud adoption, M&A tenant-to-tenant, platform switches — the migration layer of the AvePoint portfolio.
Pre-Migration Assessment
Assesses what data exists, how much, its structure, dependencies and likely issues before you migrate, so plans hold.
Migration Planning & Waves
Plans scope and sequence and splits large migrations into waves, by department or phase, so each stage is low-risk.
User, Permission & Structure Mapping
Maps users, permissions and structures to the destination across tenants or platforms, so identities and access land correctly.
Migrate INTO Microsoft 365
Moves on-premises SharePoint, file shares and other sources into Microsoft 365, including SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams.
Tenant-to-Tenant Migration (M&A)
Moves users, data and workspaces between Microsoft 365 tenants for mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and restructures.
Cross-Platform Migration
Migrates across platforms, such as Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 or the reverse, and Power Platform, preserving content.
High-Fidelity Migration
Preserves structure, metadata, permissions, versions, timestamps and settings, so nothing important is lost or broken.
Scale & Azure-Hosted Performance
The Azure-hosted engine moves large volumes and many users quickly, without heavy local infrastructure.
Real-Time Monitoring & Dashboards
Real-time dashboards show progress, status and throughput, so you always know where the migration stands.
Error Handling & Incremental Sync
Retries and reports errors, and runs incremental delta syncs, so you can migrate in stages with a final sync at cutover.
Detailed Reporting & Verification
Detailed reports of what migrated, and any issues, verify the move is complete and correct.
Part of the Confidence Platform
Part of AvePoint’s Confidence Platform (Modernization suite): migrate, then govern with Cloud Governance and protect with Cloud Backup.
Watch AvePoint Fly in action
The overview, getting started, and the core workflows.
The AvePoint Confidence Platform for the Public Sector
The Confidence Platform (context).
AvePoint Cloud Backup & the Confidence Platform
AvePoint's data-management platform.
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Here’s what genuinely sets AvePoint Fly apart.
Migrations are complex and risky — purpose-built software does them properly
M&A, divestitures and moves from on-prem SharePoint to Microsoft 365 all mean moving large volumes of critical data between environments that store it differently. Done by hand or with basic tools, data gets lost, permissions break and metadata is stripped; Fly plans, maps, migrates with high fidelity and monitors the whole move.
High fidelity — preserve structure, metadata and permissions
A migration is more than copying files. Fly preserves structure, metadata, permissions, versions, timestamps and authorship, so the destination is organised, findable and correctly permissioned with history intact. Low fidelity leaves broken access, lost audit trails and painful cleanup; AvePoint has run some of the largest M365 migrations.
Tenant-to-tenant & cross-platform — handle M&A and platform switches
Tenant-to-tenant moves after mergers, acquisitions or divestitures, and cross-platform switches such as Google Workspace to Microsoft 365, are where migrations most often go wrong. Fly handles both, with user mapping, coexistence between live tenants and transformation between platforms, so high-stakes moves stay controlled.
Planning, monitoring & control — run migrations as managed projects
A real migration is a project, not a bulk copy. Fly assesses and plans it in waves, maps users and permissions upfront, shows progress on real-time dashboards, retries errors, runs incremental syncs with a final cutover, and reports what moved, so completeness can be verified.
From a migration-expert, listed leader — with the Confidence Platform
AvePoint has long been a leading Microsoft 365 and SharePoint migration provider and has run some of the largest enterprise and government M365 moves. It is NASDAQ-listed (AVPT) with 28,000+ customers, and Fly sits beside Cloud Governance and Cloud Backup, so migrated data can then be governed and protected by one vendor.
The honest scope
AvePoint Fly migrates into, between and across Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Power Platform and on-prem with high fidelity, including tenant-to-tenant. ShareGate is loved for simpler SharePoint moves and Quest or BitTitan are strong on tenant-to-tenant; Fly competes on enterprise-scale fidelity, complex scenarios and the wider platform.
The numbers behind the platform
What your Fly migration journey looks like
Migration scoping
Your scenario (into M365, tenant-to-tenant, cross-platform), volumes, timeline and fidelity needs. TechBag scopes it free.
Assess & plan
Assess the source, map users, permissions and structure to the destination, and plan the migration in waves.
Migrate & monitor
Run each wave on the Azure-hosted engine, monitor progress live, handle issues, then do a final incremental sync at cutover.
Verify, then govern & protect
Verify with reports, fix anything outstanding, then govern and protect the migrated data. TechBag models it in INR/GST.
The review scoreboard
Modelled on Gartner Peer Insights structure. *Counts and breakdowns are illustrative pending verified review collection.
Quick poll — what’s driving your evaluation?
Talk to an advisor“Our merger meant combining two Microsoft 365 tenants. Fly moved mailboxes, SharePoint, Teams and permissions intact.”
“Structure, metadata, permissions and version history all came across. No painful cleanup, no broken access.”
“Fly handled our switch from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 cleanly, mapping users and content across platforms.”
“Planning in waves, live monitoring and detailed reports turned a daunting migration into a controlled project.”
“The Azure-hosted engine migrated our large volume efficiently — no heavy local infrastructure to stand up. Fast and reliable at scale.”
“ShareGate and BitTitan are good, but for a large tenant-to-tenant move, and governing the data afterwards, AvePoint won.”
“Migrating, then governing with Cloud Governance and protecting with Cloud Backup, all from AvePoint, gave us one coherent lifecycle.”
“As an MSP, Fly runs our client migrations into M365, tenant-to-tenant and cross-platform, with the reporting clients want.”
Where everyone sits — the grids
Analyst firms bury this view behind paywalls, and review-site grids score satisfaction, not fit for your estate. So here’s TechBag’s synthesis of the cloud-migration market — tap any vendor to see why it sits where it does.
TechBag Cloud Migration Grid
Execution strength vs product vision — the classic market map, minus the paywall.
Enterprise migration + data-mgmt platform. This page's product.
Scenario Breadth × Migration Depth
The grid nobody publishes — source & scenario breadth vs migration depth.
High-fidelity, complex scenarios, +platform.
Positions are TechBag’s illustrative synthesis of public review-platform data and vendor documentation — not a reproduction of any analyst graphic. Verify before relying on it.
Fly vs the migration field
ShareGate, Quest, BitTitan and CloudFuze — honest lanes; the edge is enterprise-scale fidelity + complex-scenario handling (T2T, cross-platform) within a data-management platform (migrate then govern/protect).
| Dimension | AvePoint Fly | ShareGate | Quest (On Demand/Metalogix) | BitTitan (MigrationWiz) | CloudFuze | Manual / basic tools |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position | Enterprise migration + data-mgmt platform | Popular, easy M365/SharePoint migration | Strong T2T / M&A migration | Widely-used, MSP-popular | Cross-platform migration | Manual / free tools |
| Migration fidelity | High — structure/metadata/permissions | High | High | Good | Good | Low / lossy |
| Into M365 (cloud adoption) | Yes — deep M365 | Yes — easy | Yes | Yes | Yes | Manual |
| Tenant-to-tenant (M&A) | Yes — strong | Yes (growing) | Yes — a leader | Yes — strong | Yes | Very hard |
| Cross-platform (Google↔M365) | Yes | Some | Yes | Yes | Core strength | Very hard |
| Scale & Azure-hosted | Azure-hosted, at scale | Good | Cloud-scale | Cloud-scale | Cloud | Limited |
| Planning, monitoring, reporting | Yes — managed project | Good | Strong | Good | Basic-moderate | None |
| Broader data-mgmt platform | Yes — Confidence Platform (govern/protect) | Migration-focused | Broader Quest tools | Migration-focused | Migration-focused | N/A |
| Best fit | Large/complex migrations + govern & protect afterwards | Easy SharePoint/M365 migration | Tenant-to-tenant / M&A migration | MSP-run, broad migrations | Cross-platform migration | Nobody — manual migration is risky |
Which backup & cyber resilience approach fits you?
Honest fit signals — because the fastest way to lose your trust is to pretend one product wins every scenario.
Choose AvePoint Fly if…
- You have a large or complex migration (M&A tenant-to-tenant, cross-platform, big cloud adoption)
- You need high fidelity — structure, metadata, permissions, versions preserved
- You want it run as a managed, monitored, verifiable project at scale
- You want to govern & protect the data afterwards (Confidence Platform)
ShareGate if…
- You want the easiest, most user-friendly SharePoint/M365 migration
Quest if…
- Your priority is tenant-to-tenant / M&A migration specifically
BitTitan if…
- You're an MSP wanting a widely-used, broad migration tool
Manual / basic tools if…
- Never for anything significant — manual migration risks data loss and disruption
What could this save you?
Drag the sliders (count users; IT-hour cost as loaded rate). Estimates contrast the effort and risk of manual/basic migration (data loss, broken permissions, prolonged disruption) vs a reliable, high-fidelity, managed migration — plus the unpriced value of a successful M&A integration or platform switch. Illustrative; Fly is scoped per migration.
Loaded cost = salary + overheads per productive hour. Illustrative only — your TechBag quote models your actual environment and modules.
Three ways to consume it
Fly is subscription/per-migration/quote-priced — by migration scope (users/data volume), scenario/complexity (into M365, tenant-to-tenant, cross-platform), and term or project. Often project-based. TechBag right-sizes it and quotes in INR/GST with local support (and helps plan the migration).
Fly (migration)
Best for reliable cloud migration
- Into M365, tenant-to-tenant (M&A), cross-platform
- High fidelity — structure, metadata, permissions
- Azure-hosted, at scale; planning, monitoring, reporting
+ Platform add-ons
Best for a broader rollout
- Scoped to your estate
- Add-on modules as needed
- Phased, right-sized deployment
+ The Confidence Platform
Best for the full data lifecycle
- Add Cloud Governance (govern) & Cloud Backup (protect) after migrating
- One data-management leader (NASDAQ: AVPT)
- TechBag scopes the mix in INR/GST
Buy it for less — TechBag pricing beats list
Whatever the list prices above, TechBag negotiates a significantly better deal — with GST-compliant INR invoicing and local support. Ask us for your discounted quote.
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The 8 questions to ask every vendor
Take this into your next vendor call — including ours.
Is your move into M365, tenant-to-tenant (M&A or restructure) or cross-platform (Google↔M365)? Fly handles all three.
Do you need to preserve structure, metadata, permissions and version history? High fidelity is essential — Fly delivers it.
How much data and how many users? Fly's Azure-hosted engine handles large scale efficiently.
Is it complex (T2T, cross-platform, coexistence)? These are where migrations go wrong — Fly handles them; basic tools often can't.
Value planning (waves), real-time monitoring, error handling and verification? Fly runs migration as a managed project.
Will you govern and protect the data after migrating? Cloud Governance and Cloud Backup complete the lifecycle.
Weigh Fly (enterprise scale, complex scenarios, +platform) vs ShareGate (ease), Quest/BitTitan (T2T) for your migration.
Size by migration scope (users/data), and quote in INR/GST — TechBag scopes it (often project-based).
Questions buyers ask
Ready to migrate your cloud data reliably?
Scope a high-fidelity migration (cloud adoption, M&A tenant-to-tenant, or platform switch — with nothing lost and minimal disruption), or let a TechBag advisor plan your migration.
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