Microsoft Teams

Teams is a proprietary business communication platform developed by Microsoft, as part of the Microsoft 365 family of products. Teams primarily competes with the similar service Slack, offering workspace chat and videoconferencing, file storage, and application integration.

Teams is the replacement solution for Skype for Business, which officially retires on 31st July 2021 and will not be accessible after this date. Skype for Business is no longer available to new customers. Instead, Teams is now the standard solution for calling, messaging, collaboration and meeting capabilities.

Calling and Meetings

• Broader communication and collaboration tools.
• Persistent, topic-led conversations for better teamworking.
• HD meetings, screen and video sharing and recording features.
• Modern user experiences.
• State-of-the-art cross-platform and mobile experiences.
• Collaboration across Teams and Channels.
• Improved co-authoring and creative working solutions.

Collaboration and co-authoring

• Modern user experiences.
• State-of-the-art cross-platform and mobile experiences.
• Collaboration across Teams and Channels.
• Improved co-authoring and creative working solutions.

Office 365 integration

• Microsoft and third-party app and bot integration.
• Rapid, user-led innovation and feature roll-outs.
• Secure, feature-rich file storage and sharing.
• Underpinned by Office 365 Groups and SharePoint.