Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams brings together the full breadth and depth of Office 365, to provide a true chat-based hub for teamwork and give customers the opportunity to create a more open, fluid, and digital environment. Microsoft Teams is built on existing Microsoft technologies and is easy to use.

Out of the box, Teams leverages identities stored in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and integrates with the other services within Office 365, to create a SharePoint online site and an Exchange Online group mailbox for each team created. You can set up a collaboration environment in seconds and start working internally and external.

Elevator Pitch To complement the Teams capability as a persistent chat board where informal, real-time conversations take place, Teams also provides a calling and meeting experience built on the next generation cloud-based infrastructure that is also used by and . These technology investments include Azure-based cloud services for media processing and signalling. With Teams you can set up meetings, share and store documents and work together more efficiently.

Qualifying Questions Do you work together on project with multiple teams?

Are you looking for a simple out of the box SharePoint?

Would you like to increase productivity and communication in you company? Cloud Solutions

Microsoft Teams infrastructure Teams is built on existing Microsoft technologies, created using existing Office 365 Groups, allowing woven together by Office 365 Groups. Powered by the existing group memberships, and contents stored in Microsoft cloud, organizations can expect excellent SharePoint Online and Exchange Online to be ported performance and reliability when leveraging Teams as to Teams. part of their collaboration story. Office 365 Groups leverage identities stored in Out of the box, a team created in Teams will create an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and as such, all Office 365 Group, a SharePoint Online site (complete authentication and authorization capabilities in Azure with a document library), and an Exchange Online AD, such as support for multi-factor authentication group mailbox, which will be used by Teams to store (MFA), are readily available for use by Teams as many information such as meeting invites. A team can be other services.

Value Statement Teams provides a persistent chat capability, calling and meetings, easy access to other components of Office 365 as well as a robust extensibility story. This provides a hub for teamwork that is appropriate for enterprise companies, small organizations and everyone in between.

Key differentiators Different groups have various needs, based on their functional role and work style. Office 365 is designed for the unique work style of every group and includes purpose-built, integrated applications, including:

4 Outlook for enterprise-grade email, now with group’s functionality 4 SharePoint for sites and portals, intelligent content services, business process automation and enterprise search 4 Skype for Business as the backbone for enterprise voice and video 4 And now, Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365 Cloud Solutions

Customer objection handling How does Microsoft Teams help What is the business opportunity How is Microsoft Teams different teams achieve more? for driving Microsoft Teams usage? from Office 365 Groups? As a hub for teamwork, Microsoft Teams will be made Office 365 Groups is a service Microsoft Teams is a customizable broadly available to most Office that provides cross-application workspace in Office 365 where 365 commercial suites customers. membership and a set of shared content, people and tools – many Chat-based team collaboration team assets (email, calendar, of which people are already familiar creates new, viral usage scenarios SharePoint, OneNote and Planner) with – live together so teams have and an expanded Office 365 so the team can collaborate instant access to everything they footprint in our customers. By effectively using the different team need to help enable better, faster expanding the value customers services all team members have decisions across organizations. receive from Office 365 we access to. Tabs provide instant access to strengthen the overall usage and Microsoft Teams is built upon Office frequently used documents and loyalty to Office 365. 365 Groups and provides a new cloud services like PowerPoint We’ve built to deliver a way to access shared assets for an and Planner. universal toolkit for collaboration that Office 365 Group. Microsoft Teams Is there any tiering of Microsoft meets the needs of diverse teams. is the best solution for persistent Teams features across different chat among group/team members. • Microsoft Teams: Chat-based O365 suites? workspace No. Microsoft Teams has the same • Skype for Business: Voice core functionalities across all Office and video 365 commercial suites listed above. This allows all our customers to • Outlook: Email and calendar immediately get the most value • SharePoint: Sites and Content from Teams. Management

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