Microsoft Teams; Collaborate together.

Enhance your team’s performance, all in one single application

With an assortment of tools accessible to us on our computers these days, it’s difficult to work out what’s best to use. Few apps are good at more than one job, forcing us to juggle copious services to achieve our daily tasks, and worse; everyone has their individual preferences, which means we’re often forced to jump between multiple applications to accomplish the same objective.

Teams is Microsoft’s answer to a single-pane-of-glass application covering a wide radius of our day to day communication & collaboration needs. Functioning both internally & externally to your business, Teams cuts out the time that is lost in the dark of various third-party services, along with the pain & irritation that comes with a more traditional team working by older methods, such as email.

Stop the tennis match of emailing

Do away with the ceaseless email chains, being cc’d into emails unnecessarily and losing track of the latest file version following multiple versions being passed as attachments between your team. With Teams, you can bring together the conversation.

Every user within Teams can refer to the “Conversations” pane for that particular group. Just like the feature we’re all acquainted with on social media platforms, users can be tagged, to ensure they are alerted to a point of reference within the conversation related to them. Files, images and videos can all be shared and embedded into the conversation stream. The history can easily be searched through, and crucially all information is viewable on any device in a matter of seconds. Save hours in trawling your Outlook mailbox trying to find that specific conversation from months earlier.

Beyond the chat stream, your users can cooperate on files live – right within the app. Microsoft Office Web Apps are supported right within Teams, so you can have numerous team members, (both internally and externally to your organisation), working on the same document, at the same time. You can literally see your colleagues entering information on the same document.

Prefer an easy phone call?

Text-based instant message conversations are superb, but you’d prefer to have a quick voice chat? No problem, Teams has that included too. Built from the foundations of Skype, within the very same Teams application, you can access voice & video conferencing between one or multiple users. Calls can be set up on the fly or pre-scheduled – if you use an Outlook calendar, you can create a Teams meeting just like any other calendar entry. The invitation creates a web link button to join the meeting within the specifics of the Outlook calendar appointment. So, whether you are inviting colleagues, clients or suppliers to a call – with one click, they can join the meeting irrespective of whether they are Office 365 or Teams users or not.

Those non-Teams users won’t need to install any software or go through a lengthy setup. They can join the call from their favourite web browser and simply have at least a microphone active on their device.

At the same time of calling, you can be splitting desktop screens or access the same Office file via the cloud and work collectively as though you’re sat in the same room.

Need a helping hand?

If you are spinning in a sea of far too many options and are contemplating consolidating, Teams might well be the best solution.

At Tristar, we take a consultative approach to working with our clients. Unlike the majority of IT providers, we take the time to learn our client’s business, operations and processes; enabling us to better tailor workable technology solutions.

If you are considering migrating to the Cloud, use Office 365 but not to its full extent or need guidance around technology solutions to your operational problems – please get in touch.

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If you have any concerns, questions or simply want to explore how to better secure your business, please do get in touch with the team for a FREE demonstration, consultation to explore how exposed your business might be and identify actions to take.

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If you’re looking for IT support in Hertfordshire or IT support in North London, contact us today, and a member of our team would be more than happy to advise you.