May 24, 2021

Why Microsoft Teams is a must-have collaboration solution

Introduction

Microsoft Teams needs no introduction as the world’s leading collaboration solution. Designed to drive employee engagement and amplify employee productivity, Microsoft Teams has become an indispensable part of organizations throughout the world today.

The success of this amazing platform speaks for itself. Integrated with important productivity apps, tools, and services, Teams has everything to provide a rich collaboration experience and promote employee empowerment. We must say that organizations that are still doubtful about transforming their businesses using Microsoft Teams must give it a try it without a second thought.

Further in this blog, we are going to cover major sought-after benefits an organization can derive using Microsoft Teams. Let’s start:

  • Flexibility

A majority of the global workforce is now looking for flexible work options to be able to work remotely as well as effectively without delays and obstructions. With this regard, Microsoft Teams breaks every productivity barrier by unleashing a platform that enables people to connect and work together from anywhere, anytime using any device.

  • Real-time collaboration

In a virtual workspace, employees can seamlessly access files from the cloud and then, co-edit and share those files live. Employees can even share each other’s screens for knowledge sharing.

  • Improved communication

Teams foster targeted communications so that there is no waste of time. Using Teams, employees can send instant messages to each other, chat, and have conversations using multiple channels.

One of the most powerful features in Teams to offer consistent communication for mobile employees is audio-video calling. Using this, employees can easily conduct and join meetings, conferences and deliver presentations flawlessly through their PCs and handheld devices from wherever they are.

  • Integration with vital business apps

Teams is closely knitted with some important business apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Planner, SharePoint, and more to enable employees to work fluidly across apps all from one single place.

  • Enhanced productivity

By enabling effective teamwork and by streamlining communication, Teams eradicates time-consuming tasks and clunky manual processes to improve productivity. Teams provide many interesting features with time-saving hacks to minimize distractions and maximize user focus.

  • Customization

For a better experience, Teams allows you to customize the platform and make it work as per your business standards. You can integrate third-party cloud apps such as Google Drive, Dropbox, etc., incorporate social media platforms such as Twitter or Facebook and can even implement automation tools such as TeamsHUB by Cyclotron for greater security, governance, engagement, and adoption of Teams.

  • Fewer emails

Teams is well-known for its responsiveness. Time is long gone to get swamped by too many emails. Now using chats and channels in Teams, you can connect with your co-worker instantly and get a reply without having to wait for long.

  • Helper bots

For Teams, collaboration is incomplete without intelligent bots as employees’ digital colleagues to boost internal productivity. Teams offer a variety of bots such as T-Bot, Polly, Statsbot, and more to automate processes and streamline common employee tasks.

  • Company-wide updates

Intranet on Teams can easily be added either by customizing it or implementing a third-party application such as TeamsHUB by Cyclotron. It ensures that your employees do not miss any critical information or company updates and get all links to important resources from a single page.

Moreover, Intranet on Teams can also be extended as a digital place for socialization, encouragement, and team bonding by letting employees recognize and celebrate each other’s talent and contribution.

  • Secure internal and external collaboration

By configuring Teams settings, the exchange of information among team members and with external users or guest users can be tightly secured and governed. Additionally, you can use a third-party application such as TeamsHUB by Cyclotron and automate Microsoft Teams for easy and secured file sharing and management.

  • Increased data visibility with better governance

Teams allows modification of default settings for governance to enhance data visibility. Furthermore, if you have a large organization with a multitude of teams ever-growing, we recommend that you use our automation tool – TeamsHUB by Cyclotron on top of Microsoft Teams to prevent team sprawl, data leaks, and other serious collaboration issues. Using TeamsHUB by Cyclotron you can simplify administration and get rid of complex, mundane and manual processes.

  • Support for government agencies

US public sector demands an enhanced security and compliance requirements for their collaboration environments. Microsoft Teams for GCC (Government Community Cloud) is specifically designed for US government organizations such as CJIS, FTI, Healthcare, and defense agencies that deal with highly sensitive data.

With advanced capabilities, Teams allows government employees to coordinate effectively without while decreasing technical issues and other worries.

Summary

Evidently, Teams is the future of communications. With all the powerful features, it certainly creates an inclusive and productive environment for remote workers. Moreover, every day Teams is updated with new features and functionalities to wow its users.

Additionally, if you want to reduce IT burdens and eliminate arduous administrative tasks in MS Teams, then we suggest you use TeamsHUB by Cyclotron for sound governance and control on Teams or M365 environment.

To know more about TeamsHUB by Cyclotron, visit https://teamshub.io or contact sales@cyclotrongroup.com

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