April App of the month – Teams

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Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is used by 280 Million people across the World! That is an amazing number of people which is why Microsoft can heavily invest in the development of Teams.

Teams have additional functions other than Chat and Meetings. There is so much more available. How much do your Team use Teams (Communities in the Personal Teams).

Do you work in a Team or organisation where you collaborate with others? Teams is the perfect way to collaborate across a group of people both internal and external.

Think of these scenarios which Teams helps your team efficiency.

  1. A small business collaborates on Finance with an external bookkeeper and an accountant. Email used to be sent between the different people, now they have a team, share documents, comment on documents and have Finance Meetings.
  2. A Marketing Team collaborates with external Marketing Agencies on Projects. They used to use Dropbox and email to collaborate with Marketing Material and then use Zoom for meetings. Instead now they have a Marketing Team with Channels for each Project and share information all within the Team, and can also chat and call each other from the Team.
  3. A Landscape Architect works with others to collaborate on drawings which will eventually be uploaded to a House Developer. In collaboration they have a Whiteboard where they can mark up the drawings in the meeting and share information.
  4. A Finance Team in an organisation manages invoices coming into the business. They set up a Team with an Approval Process for the invoices to be approved by the right person without sending out via email for processing.
  5. A Training Team in an organisation collaborates on different Training Courses with different Training Organisations. They use channels in Teams to manage the documents, use Feedback Forms online, Approvals for attendence at the session, and share calendars. In addition Bookings is used internally to book a place on the session.

Essentially Teams is a Virtual Office. Whether you are working remotely, in an office or hybrid then using Teams improves efficiency. There are so many aspects to using Teams, and in addition, there are 3rd party enhancements to Teams which improve it even more.

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