It also provides the ability of launching private discussions. Every conversation within Teams automatically becomes information assets and are saved, searchable via Microsoft Graph, and visible to everyone on the team. Microsoft Teams provides a versatile conversation experience using persistent threaded conversations. Teams provides an open, digital environment that makes work integrated, visible, and accessible across the board, keeping everyone involved in the know. There have been many changes across the methods that organizational teams use to communicate and collaborate. Teams is built for today’s diverse workforce. As of September 2017, Microsoft reported 125,000 organizations were using it in one form or another. Teams started as Microsoft’s implementation of Slack with deep integrations into Office 365 applications. What Can Teams Bring to Your Organization? Even though there is a new version of the on premises solution, it is clear that Teams is where the innovation dollars are going. While the recommendation for Office 365 users is to move to Teams, the Skype for Business on premises infrastructure is not going away anytime soon, in fact, a new version (Skype for Business Server 2019) is in preview and should be released later this year. What will this mean for current users of Skype for Business? With Teams, we’re creating new experiences for meetings and calling, including the prep, delivery, and post–follow-ups.”

We believe Teams also provides a modern cloud infrastructure that enables us to take advantage of our assets for artificial intelligence such as AI, Microsoft Graph, and LinkedIn to deliver intelligent communications. Microsoft, a year ago, announced that they are bringing the capabilities of Skype for Business in the cloud into Microsoft Teams to deliver a single hub for teamwork, with built-in, fully integrated voice and video.Īccording to Microsoft, “As users are working on more teams, we see the opportunity to more seamlessly integrate our communication capabilities into Teams so users can have a single place for their conversations, contacts, and content.

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