Microsoft Teams is a chat-based collaboration platform complete with document sharing, online meetings, and many more useful features for business communications. Having a workable team space is key to being able to make creative decisions and communicate with one another. Shared workspace software makes this much easier to achieve, especially if a team has remote employees, or is made up of a different departments or management.

 

Microsoft Teams core components that make it stand out from other collaboration software:

 

  •     Teams and channels. Teams are made up of channels, which are conversation boards between teammates.

 

  •     Conversations within channels and teams. All team members can view and add to different conversations in the General channel and can use an @ function to invite other members.

 

  •     A chat function. The basic chat function between teams, groups, and individuals.

 

  •     Document storage in SharePoint. Every team that uses Microsoft Teams will have a site in SharePoint Online, which will contain a default document library folder.

 

  •     Online video calling and screen sharing. Enjoy seamless and fast video calls to employees within your business or clients outside your business.

 

  •     Online meetings. This feature can help enhance your communications, company-wide meetings, and even training with an online meeting function that can host up to 10,000 users.

 

  •     Audio conferencing. This is a feature you will not find in many collaboration platforms. With a dial-in number that spans hundreds of cities, even users that are on the go can participate with no internet required.

 

  •     Full telephony. Microsoft Teams can completely replace your business’s existing VoIP phone system.

 

Why Should Your Business Use Microsoft Teams?

You can create and track tasks, projects, productions, and other business elements with Microsoft Teams amongst your work environment or between remote users. And for already using Skype for Business, the Teams client will replace the Skype client, but all additional existing functionality will remain the same.

 

Using Microsoft Teams

Teams is incredibly straightforward and user-friendly. There is little to no set up required. Still, some thought should be put into how a business wants to use the platform before rolling it out across the company. From the user standpoint, Teams is very intuitive, and the learning curve is quite small compared to more complicated collaboration tools.

Teams is a powerful and extremely useful collaboration environment that will only grow in popularity. Microsoft Teams is included in Office 365 for free, so any Office user can enjoy all the benefits of this collaboration solution.

 

 

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