Effective communication and making potential use of it to accelerate project deliverables and improve work culture is very critical to any organization’s success. There are a few players available in the market who contribute to the intra-office communication space allowing employees to collaborate with a chatroom interface. Lately, the launch of Microsoft Teams has gained an edge over all players including Slack since it is enrolled in the Office 365 business subscription plan.
The reason why Teams outgrows other players is mainly that it embeds project management capabilities into a chat tool enabling employees to collaboratively work on projects and improve go to market times. With a transparent work environment, the top management gains visibility into the tasks delegated to different teams and the statuses of each which helps them make critical business decisions on the go.
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Moreover, Teams’ simplified search menus to quickly access important information, integration touch points to connect with a host of different applications, and many advanced features make it a preferred workspace communication tool.
Teams features
Teams is a user-friendly and an intuitive interface empowering employees to actively collaborate with one another and complete projects and tasks on time. The “Tab” option in the Teams helps to clip the most important or frequently visited apps or pages to the homepage and quickly access them without having to switch between applications. Teams are platform-agnostic and mobile responsive empowering employees to access data/files from where they are and effectively communicate information on the go without depending on others.
Teams bring everyone in the organization on the same page and help them execute their tasks collaboratively without wasting time on email communication or follow-ups. The top management can make critical business decisions based on how the teams are performing and align them towards business goals.
Teams Integration
Teams can be extensively integrated with the other Office 365 components such as SharePoint, Outlook, Word, Excel, OneDrive, etc. Teams support more than 150 integration touch points using which businesses can connect to their everyday business processes and execute them without any laybacks directly from the Teams platform.
Integration of Microsoft products with Teams make it an effective communication tool for businesses. Additionally, MS Teams enables communication within businesses by integrating with a wide selection of apps like Evernote, SurveyMonkey, Trello and many others. Users can easily add third-party apps using the Teams Store.
Office 365 ecosystem is packed with many supporting applications like Outlook, Office Apps, SharePoint, OneNote, Power BI, and Planner. These applications are value-additions to any organization and insights that you get out of these applications are very crucial in making the organization’s decisions.
However, 90% of the businesses are already using Microsoft applications and depend on them to execute their day-to-day business processes and maintaining their efficiency. These apps help move organizations towards a forward-looking path and enable them to stay ahead of competitors. When an intuitive Teams platform comes in-built with the Office 365 license with complete access to all Microsoft apps, purchasing separate content management tools like Slack is an overhead cost.
