Investing in Teams boosts productivity and reduces costs within your organisation. Making the move will drive Digital Transformation in your organisation, providing integrated collaboration solutions that scale, while safeguarding information and ensuring compliance.
Microsoft Teams provides access to threaded and persistent chat, conference and document sharing, all in a central and easy to access interface. Teams is a cohesive environment where a user has access to everything in one place at the click of a mouse. Adopting Teams will ensure that these multi-layered and complex communication layers are integrated, thereby eliminating latency and delays. This is especially vital for geographically dispersed teams, as they can now access topic-specific, multi-party discussions in an instant. Furthermore, real-time document sharing, and integrated presence information ensures your team no longer need to email documents back and forth.
All unified communication services need to meet privacy and compliance requirements. Microsoft Teams is designed to meet the same security and data protection standards as Office 365 and is Office 365 Tier D compliant. The service enforces two-factor authentication, single sign and encryption of data in transit and at rest. Microsoft also helps organisations protect sensitive information from being shared or leaked. Information barriers enable you to limit which team members can communicate and collaborate with each other. This ensures your communications, internally and externally, are secure and compliant.
Today’s world might be more connected than ever, but supporting global growth at pace, across multiple locations and time zones can be a costly endeavour. Teams offers unlimited audio, video and web conferencing. This reduces call costs and there is no need for costly third-party conferencing software. With the introduction of Microsoft Teams, your organisation can not only make cost savings but reduce the frustration and friction caused by employees needing to switch between platforms and increase cohesive collaboration.
The European leadership of Circle K (Global Retailer) needed a solution that would enable them to have more successful meetings. Circle K now has a solution to their meeting challenges which provides agenda creation and collaboration, meeting minutes templates, task follow-ups, and more through interoperability with Microsoft Teams, Outlook, OneNote, Word, Planner, Excel, and SharePoint.
Students at Newcastle University had been sourcing their own collaboration tools or free commercial apps on the internet without any IT oversight or control, this was causing the university compliant issues with GDPR. NU drove the adoption of MS Teams across 35,000 users including staff, students, and contractors. What might have taken 10 emails can now be settled at a glance.
University of Burgundy implements Microsoft Teams for 5,000 students across multiple locations and hardware. The students interact, plan their tasks and meetings, exchange files, and organise votes, students are completely autonomous. Lecturers at the university use Teams to stay organised and connected while leveraging other applications that have been integrated into Teams like Asana a very popular project management tool.
NTT Communications a global IT services company delivering network services in over 190 countries, the company was using on-premises Microsoft Exchange for email, a file server for collaborative file work, Cisco Jabber for chat, Cisco WebEx for video conferencing, to simplify this NTT Communications implemented Microsoft Teams as the new company communication platform.
If you are an IT Manager looking to get a better understanding of the benefits that Microsoft Teams can bring to your organisation you can download our ‘Teams for IT Managers’ brochure for more information.
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If you already have Teams installed and are looking to get the most out of the application for your organisation, we have collated some training videos which will be useful to you.