Teams Meeting & Calling: opportunity
Microsoft Teams has experienced rapid market adoption and acceptance. For example, in July 2019, 13 million people used Teams daily, and 19 million used it weekly. By November 2019, the Teams had 20 million daily active users, and by March 2020, Microsoft announced that Teams had reached 44 million daily active users.
The global market for collaboration applications in the workplace will grow from $2.7 billion in 2018 to $4.8 billion by 2023. By 2022, 40% of formal meetings will happen via virtual concierges and advanced analytics. Furthermore, by 2024, remote working and changing workforce demographics will impact enterprise meetings so that only 25% will take place in person, down from 60% in 2018.
Teams Meetings & Calling: value proposition
Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365, allowing everyone you work with to chat, meet, call, and collaborate all in one place, no matter where you are, all with enterprise-grade security.
In July 2019, Jared Spataro, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365, announced more than 13 million people now use Teams daily, and more than 19 million people use it weekly. He said Microsoft Teams is at the heart of Microsoft 365. Launched two before this, it is an integrated set of apps and services designed to help customers transform workplace collaboration, streamline business processes and protect critical information, Spataro wrote in a blog. Also, Teams users outnumber Slack users.
Microsoft Teams integrates with other Microsoft services such as:
- Calendar and Office 365 (including cloud-based versions of the flagship productivity applications such as Word and Excel).
- OneDrive and SharePoint.
- The chat app, security tools, and even the Windows 10 operating system.
- Cloud storage via Azure.
- New calling capabilities.
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Discover a new way to work together
Achieve more together with Microsoft Teams.
- Chat from anywhere. Share your opinion and your personality. Send gifs, stickers, and emojis in a group chat or one-to-one messages.
- Call from anywhere. Never yell, “who just joined?!” ever again. Use Teams calling, Phone Systems, Calling Plan or Direct Routing to take the stress out of conference calls.
- Meet from anywhere. Instantly go from group chat to video conference with the touch of a button. Groups of ten or 10,000 can meet in one place, no matter how many locations.
- Collaboration from anywhere. Never do that frantic, searching-for-files thing ever again. You can access, share, and edit Word docs, PowerPoint, and Excel files in real-time.
Teams Meeting & Calling: solutions overview
Microsoft Teams provides a hub for teamwork where people can call, meet, chat, and collaborate all in one place. Conduct rich meetings with calling capabilities allowing people to securely connect with others inside and outside their organisation within the context of the files and conversations that they need to be productive. Furthermore, connections can span 1:1 meetings and calls, group meetings, or extensive virtual events. Lastly, personal and shared room devices certified for Teams helps ensure a seamless, consistent experience and superior audio and video quality.
As part of Teams, Direct Routing uses the Phone System built into Office 365 to make voice and video calls.
- As a result, this is ideal for remote work and distributed workforces.
- Provides simple monthly pricing and set up charges.
- Microsoft includes this with your Office365 licensing with simple Office 365 Device log in.
- It is the Skype For Business replacement.
March 2020 features
- Background noise suppression in video calls (using AI).
- Microsoft Teams gives the ability to read and write messages without an internet connection.
- A way to virtually raise your hand when you want to say something in a video call.
- There is a new service for small businesses that make Teams into a more traditional phone system. So desk phones can handle outgoing and incoming calls to regular phone numbers.
Teams Meetings & Calling: customer reviews
Collaborating as the foundation for creativity. Accelerating time to market, improving productivity.
“At L’Oréal, we want the best for our employees. The new technology that allows for personality, contributions, and real innovation is Microsoft Teams.” – Barbara Lavernos, Chief Technology and Operations Officer at L’Oréal
Expediting projects to deliver corporate strategies. Enhancing communication to improve results.
“We use Microsoft 365 to access and share content from multiple devices securely across the organisation. With Teams, we enjoy highly secure, scalable collaboration.” – Joe Boerio, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Franklin Templeton
Promoting agility, mobility, and flexibility. Boosting productivity and simplifying IT management.
“We need to empower people so they can work efficiently anytime, anywhere, on their favourite device. Microsoft Teams provides that, allowing people to be effective in a truly mobile sense.” – Dominic Shine, Chief Technology Officer at Dentsu Aegis Network
Keeping students, faculty and research partners communicating seamlessly.
“A university is not generally one contiguous whole – it’s lots of little communities. What Teams allows us to do is to reach across those and just be people working together.” – Graham Collins, Research Computing Analyst at Newcastle University.
