Luca, a young professional in the IT sector, starts his day working from home, attending a meeting with his colleagues via Microsoft Teams, and collaborating in real-time on a Word document shared in the cloud.
In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, companies are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of embracing a modern business approach. This approach represents a paradigm shift that leverages technology and innovation to enable employees to work flexibly, use advanced digital tools, and collaborate effectively while fostering productivity and well-being.
Managing fixed and mobile workstations has always been a thorn for internal IT departments, mainly due to the lack of standards and policies. It happens much more often than you might think that users with the same roles have completely different workstations, or that users with specific performance needs are slowed down by devices with inferior features that don’t allow them to perform their functions, or vice versa.
Working in “hybrid” mode can benefit companies and workers: it attracts talent, boosts efficiency, productivity and employee satisfaction levels, and at the same time positively affects business flexibility and agility.
In today’s digital world, IT infrastructure has become the backbone of every company, which, regardless of size, must run smoothly to ensure business continuity and stability.
The increasing dependence of companies on their technology infrastructure makes it critical to optimize its efficiency, lower its costs and minimize any potential failures. Exponential growth is increasing in parallel with the complexity of systems, which require constant monitoring and optimization of the IT department.
In the welter of day-to-day operations, however, it is not always easy for internal IT staff to fully analyze the current situation and identify the strengths and weaknesses of the infrastructure and then work on implementations and improvements.
Effective management and constant updating of workstations are time-consuming, but they are critical activities to enable users to work in a streamlined and agile manner while minimizing potential bottlenecks that would slow business productivity and negatively impact performance.
Compounded by the pandemic and the rise of remote work, recent months have seen a surge in the use of modern cloud collaboration tools as many companies have realized that traditional communication channels are limited and obsolete. Indeed, with work becoming increasingly smart, the need to be able to communicate anywhere and seamlessly switch between devices while continuing conversations in real time is critical.
So it should come as no surprise that Microsoft 365 turns out to be one of the most widely used unified collaboration platforms in the world with more than 270 million active users in the last year alone. Impressive numbers that confirm to us that all companies regardless of industry, size and geographical area aim for efficient collaboration and communication.
While it is true, however, that most of the apps on Microsoft 365 are already well known, the subject changes when we talk about the possibility of using Microsoft Teams as a cloud-based switchboard.
There is now a clear need for digital tools that can improve team collaboration. The question, however, is which one to choose from those available in the market?
Here are the 3 (+1) reasons why a company should choose Microsoft Teams.