Struggling to understand all the options within Office 365? October 23, 2019 – Posted in: News, Productivity – Tags: Productivity

Confused by all the possibilities in Office 365?

Cloud platforms are developing and so has the range of features and tools available to users within them. As much as they may make many of our lives comfortable, they can also bring a lot of misunderstanding & disorder between different employees.

Giving people access across too many tools and they’ll use them improperly or not at all.

Don’t let ‘shadow IT’ tiptoe into your business by letting team members go off and find their own acquainted, often consumer-style products. Why not instead give them a strategy & training on the correct tools that best fit the needs of the business.

A brief insight into the core of Microsoft Teams

Linking a long-line of communication and collaboration tools; teams is Microsoft’s single-platform response to an array of business operational desires.

Working from a single ‘pane of glass’, users can access instant messaging, file sharing, calendars, video conferencing, intranet-style information wikis and notes all within one desktop application or online application.

By connecting to the platform, you won’t need to look back on the days of relocating between a host of apps, losing track of your files or sinking under a mountain of emails.

A quite astounding, but totally understandable statistic, is showing Teams to be already outstripping all previous Microsoft products to be their fastest growing platform yet! The simplicity combined with an all-encompassing approach has caught the crowds looking for a 365-linked substitute to the likes of Slack.

Teams is available on most Office 365 subscriptions at no added cost. Most of the core features are available as normal, however, there are further features such as the embedded phone system, which can carry additional fees.

Lost in a variety of different tools and resources?

If you are sinking in a sea of far too many choices and are considering consolidating, Teams might well be the most appropriate answer.

At Ontraq, we take a consultative methodology to work with our clients. Unlike most 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 journeying to the Cloud, use Office 365 but not to its full extent or need direction around technology solutions to your operational problems – Please get in touch.