START YOUR DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION JOURNEY START Microsoft Teams Understanding YOUR JOURNEY TO MICROSOFT TEAMS – YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED As part of a modern workplace, you may be considering – or have already started – your migration from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams. You may already be leveraging the great features of Office 365 and wondering how you Getting started can get even more from your investment, and you may have some questions about your journey. We have you covered. If your goal is to transform business communications into a unified, collaborative experience, now is the perfect time to get the answers you need about the future of Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams. Answering questions about your business Tata Communications is a leading global Microsoft Teams The Advantages of environment is a good place to start: provider for Microsoft Teams Managed Services and Microsoft’s launch partner What is your for Direct Routing Services. A partner communication you can trust to turbocharge your digital and collaboration transformation journey, we have a stack strategy? of end-to-end services: from assessment, automated migration and legacy Enterprise Voice endpoints integration, How would you to management, training and adoption describe your services for Microsoft Teams. As a fully managed service, powered by our global with competition Comparing company culture? Tier 1 network reach and leading Global SIP Connect voice coverage, we deliver a seamless and engaging collaboration How do you want experience for your users regardless of your investments to your geographic location. Focus on your help support your business and be worry-free with our fully managed services that bring all elements communication and together seamlessly. collaboration goals? We are already helping enterprises make this journey successfully. Here other tools with Working are answers to the top questions around How well does your Microsoft Teams, Skype for Business organisation adapt Online and Office 365 that can help you to change? make the right decision. PREVIOUS NEXT TATA COMMUNICATIONS and TATA are trademarks of Tata Sons Private Limited. Microsoft Teams Understanding UNDERSTANDING MICROSOFT TEAMS WHAT IS MICROSOFT TEAMS? The possibilities of innovation are enormous when you have a dedicated virtual place to meet, converse, build, create and make decisions as a team. Microsoft Teams brings everything together in a shared workspace where you can chat, meet, share Getting started files, and work with business apps. Teams can be many things to many organisations, but the value of Teams is best determined by the needs and nature of your business in four specific areas: Collaboration Communication Work better together on Bring your team together documents and files with with group chat, online built-in Office 365 apps like meetings, calling and web Word, Excel, PowerPoint, conferencing and SharePoint Microsoft Teams The Advantages of Customisation Security Add in your favourite Get end-to-end security, Microsoft apps and third- administrative control, and party services to keep the compliance – all powered business moving forward by Office 365 WHO IS MICROSOFT TEAMS BEST SUITED FOR? with competition Comparing If you’re an existing Skype for Business user or plan to deploy it in the near future, migrating to Teams may be just the right next step for you and your organisation. A deep analysis into Teams is worthwhile to evaluate if it meets your business needs. Tata Communications can provide the analysis and guidance your company needs for migration. On the other hand, if you’re an Office 365 customer who is evaluating how to improve ROI or are not currently using Teams or Skype for Business as your enterprise communications platform, the right approach will be to assess Microsoft Teams as soon as possible. If your organisation has users that work in physical or virtual teams, Microsoft Teams is what you need to unleash their productivity to the next level. other tools with Working CAN WE SAY “MICROSOFT TEAMS IS ENTERPRISE READY”? According to the Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams Capabilities Roadmap, as well as Tata Communications’ own analysis, Microsoft Teams is considered to be Enterprise Ready, given the late 2018 introduction of calling plans and direct routing. PREVIOUS NEXT TATA COMMUNICATIONS and TATA are trademarks of Tata Sons Private Limited. Microsoft Teams Understanding GETTING STARTED HOW DO I GET STARTED WE HAVE A CHARTER TO WITH MICROSOFT TEAMS? TRANSITION FROM SKYPE FOR If you’re moving from Skype for Business BUSINESS ONLINE TO TEAMS. or another similar product or service, HOW MUCH TIME DO I NEED? Getting started consider taking the Collaboration Maturity Survey to understand/assess Microsoft has made the Skype for your current state of collaboration within Business to Microsoft Teams Capabilities your organisation and help you plan the Roadmap available so customers can next steps in your Business Collaboration assess the capabilities for Teams as roadmap. Tata Communications per their business needs. We propose professional services team will different scenarios based on your analyse your current state as well as current collaboration environment and provide a detailed roadmap to drive a investment projections: successful transition to Microsoft Teams, considering all aspects of technical and Microsoft Teams The Advantages of organisational readiness. with competition Comparing other tools with Working PREVIOUS NEXT TATA COMMUNICATIONS and TATA are trademarks of Tata Sons Private Limited. Microsoft Teams Understanding • If you have no existing investment in HOW IS TEAMS ADMINISTERED? Skype for Business, we suggest you launch Microsoft Teams for Instant Microsoft Teams is built on Office 365 Messaging, Meetings, and Voice groups and similarly administered capabilities, while working with Tata through the Office 365 admin centre, Communications to create a cloud relying on Office Graph and the same adoption plan based on the most enterprise-level security, compliance, current roadmap. and manageability as the rest of Office 365. Getting started • If you’re currently using Skype for Business Online, we suggest optimising your current Skype for Business WHAT ARE THE LICENCE environment for Teams and pilot Teams alongside Skype for Business. REQUIREMENTS FOR TEAMS? Tata Communications can provide you • Available in the Office 365 suites with automated migration from your • Premium workloads in Skype for legacy UC setup to Microsoft Teams. Business in Office 365 are the same We have tools to assess your network in Teams readiness and also help you with a • Existing Skype for Business licensing Microsoft Teams The Advantages of phased migration plan tailored to your investments carry forward to Teams current usage. • Depending on your current For all your legacy video endpoints, • deployment, you may also need we have solutions that will let you enterprise voice licences to use join Teams meetings through most PSTN calling. of these standard based endpoints, helping you get greater returns from your investments. • If you do not have an existing endpoint, but need to invest now, we with competition Comparing have a partnership with Poly and can help you with video enabling your office as well. other tools with Working PREVIOUS NEXT TATA COMMUNICATIONS and TATA are trademarks of Tata Sons Private Limited. Microsoft Teams Understanding THE ADVANTAGES OF MICROSOFT TEAMS WHAT ARE THE TOP 5 365 hyper-scale, enterprise-grade cloud, ADVANTAGES OF MOVING delivering the advanced security and compliance capabilities our customers Getting started TO MICROSOFT TEAMS? expect. Teams is Tier D-compliant, If you’re moving from Skype for Business including the following standards: ISO or another similar product or service, 27001, ISO 27018, SSAE16 SOC 1 and consider taking the Collaboration SOC 2, HIPAA, and EU Model Clauses Maturity Survey to understand/assess (EUMC). Within the Microsoft compliance your current state of collaboration within framework, Microsoft classifies Office your organisation and help you plan the 365 applications and services into four next steps in your Business Collaboration categories. Each category is defined by roadmap. Tata Communications specific compliance commitments that professional services team will must be met for an Office 365 service, or a related Microsoft service, to be listed Microsoft Teams The Advantages of analyse your current state as well as provide a detailed roadmap to drive a in that category. For more information successful transition to Microsoft Teams, about Microsoft Teams Security and considering all aspects of technical and Compliance, we recommend you visit the organisational readiness. Microsoft Trust Centre. Microsoft Teams allows 1. Microsoft Teams is superior to 3. Skype for Business easy integration with third- party applications As a Skype for Business user you are aware that your chat conversations Microsoft Teams integrates with and relies on Microsoft’s Common Data with competition Comparing can get lost or easily derail, especially in groups. Teams offers persistent Service for Apps, which enables and searchable threaded chats and companies to integrate existing content that is easy to follow, flag and applications. Straight out-of-the- reference. In addition to an improved box, Microsoft Teams can integrate a communication and collaboration catalogue of more than 150 third-party experience, combined with best-in-class applications, including: enterprise security