Microsoft Teams

In the modern world, we spend 80% of our time collaborating with others in the workplace. When collaboration becomes part of the fabric of an organisation, it fundamentally impacts performance, culture and profitability.

Yet, you might be surprised to hear that 46% of workers still find it difficult to collaborate with colleagues.

Microsoft Teams is breaking down the collaboration barrier, by helping workplaces embrace the power of truly collaborative teamwork. By bringing together chat, video calling, files, and integrated apps into a central hub, Teams supports employees to get work done, regardless of geographies. It’s the secure, scalable, cost-effective, and future-proofed answer for business leaders searching for a solution that delivers the full spectrum of modern workplace collaboration needs.

Fewer meetings, more decisions

Despite a rise in collaboration, workers are still finding it difficult to collaborate with colleagues. This is where Microsoft Teams really shines.

A Forrester study found that the adoption of Teams delivers an 18.9% reduction in meetings every week, four hours saved per week from improved collaboration and information sharing, and more than one hour per week saved by not having to switch between applications.

This is because conference calls and video meetings conducted via Teams are more reliable with high audio and video quality, meaning less time spent addressing setup and call-quality issues. Furthermore, having information and resources readily available via the Teams shared workspace enables executives and key stakeholders to make decisions faster.

Less complexity, more cost savings

Teams is a truly unified solution doing away with the need for additional communication software and hardware technology such as video conferencing, cloud calling and on-premises telephony solutions. This also contributes to lower complexity, improving the ease of security and compliance.

In fact, Forrester found that a 5,000 strong organisation employing Teams could experience benefits and cost reductions of roughly $30.3 million and $3.2 million respectively, resulting in an overall net benefit of $27.1 million over three years.

Less emails, more real-time collaboration

Features such as co-authoring, version control, document search and conversations support workers to effectively collaborate in real-time, from any location. Within Microsoft Teams, you can also access Microsoft 365, manage your team’s tasks in Planner and connect to hundreds of different applications. By having tools and information available in the one place, Teams removes productivity barriers such as working with multiple sources of information or relying on numerous tools that require separate logins.

As Microsoft’s largest Australian partner, Data^#3 is uniquely positioned to help your organisation realise the benefits of The Anywhere Workplace. Our team’s capabilities and competencies extend across technical, licensing, delivery and support to ensure our customers are well-positioned to maximise the value and benefits from their Microsoft investments.