Introducing Microsoft Teams. The platform that combines workplace chat, meetings, notes and attachments. Teams integrates with your Office 365 subscription productivity suite and features extensions that can integrate with non-Microsoft products as well.
One Place for Your Meetings, Calls and Collaborations
Chat privately or as a group, and join meetings with HD audio and video, all in one place, instead of multiple apps.
Collaborate with Integrated Office 365 Apps
Office apps like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are built-in, giving you access to files and tools in one place, so you stay in your workflow.
Security & Compliance
Teams is integrated into Office 365, which means it features the enterprise-grade security and compliance you need.
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“Since our migration to Microsoft Teams, our organization has experienced many benefits, the biggest one being mobility. Our employees are able to utilize their office phone numbers from their desktop, phone, or laptop, even when they’re traveling. The Teams mobile app is easy to use and gives our employees the ability to stay connected to their office number. Company communication is now streamlined through Teams, as it gives our team multiple options and methods to collaborate with colleagues and clients. Working with Interlink through this migration was very helpful. Their team has always been flexible to our needs and is able to ensure project completion with our utmost satisfaction. Their thoroughness, patience and attentiveness makes them a great partner to work with.”
Adam Matos, KBRA Desktop Operations Manager
Key Features
Teams
Allows communities, groups, or teams to join through a specific URL or invitation sent by a team administrator or owner.
Messaging
Within a team, members can set up channels. Channels are topics of conversation that allow team members to communicate without the use of email or group texting. Users can reply to posts with images, GIF’s and custom-made memes.
- Direct messages allow users to send private messages to a specific user rather than a group of users
Meetings
Meetings can be scheduled or created ad-hoc and users visiting the channel will be able to see that a meeting is currently in progress.
Calling
- Instant messaging
- Voice Over IP (VoIP)
- Video conferencing inside the client software
- Supports audio into conferences
Helpful Resources
How Interlink Can Help
Our experts walk you through the steps required to help your employees easily adopt and utilize Microsoft Teams.Consultation
- Development of a clear vision of your organizational needs
- Advise on which tool is the best fit
Build Deployment Roadmap
- Technical & Security Assessment
- Deployment strategy
- Configuration and Pilot
- Enterprise rollout
- Dependencies on other tools
User Awareness & Adoption
- Teams marketing campaign
- Live training
- Video series training
- Reference cards
Use Cases
Operations & Project Management
- Streamline project communication and tools
- Provide status updates, get feedback, coordinate tasks
- Share files and collaborate on deliverables
- Get new project members up to speed quickly
Marketing
- Coordinate campaigns and event tasks
- Share the latest content drafts for feedback
- Get automated reports from analytics tools
- Prepare marketing launch across multiple stakeholders
Sales
- Get quick answers from project managers and sales operations
- Share key customer wins
- Get lead notifications and deal mentions
- Share latest company, product, and competitor news
Customer Support
- Enable continuous knowledge sharing between shifts
- Provide visibility into customer escalations
- Search for solutions across conversations
- Spped up issue resolution with various subject matter experts
Engineering
- Enable continuous discussion across a distributed team
- Discuss ideas and requirements, gather inputs in the open
- Store standard documentation and files
- Integrate with developer tools like Jira
Finance
- Prepare earnings release with cross-functional stakeholders
- Streamline data consolidation and analysis
- Store budgeting documentation and files
- Share economic trends and news
Human Resources
- Drive alignment on job descriptions and streamline interview processes
- Plan and prepare new employee onboarding
- Engage distributed employees in training
- Share department resources and documentation
Additional Resources
> On-Demand Webinar | Modern Collaboration with Microsoft Teams
> Microsoft Teams Interactive Demo
> Article | Microsoft Teams: Collaboration in the Modern Workplace
> Article | Microsoft Teams | A Hub for Teamwork in Office 365
> Overview Brochure | Microsoft Teams