Instant Message within Microsoft Teams October 23, 2019 – Posted in: News, Productivity – Tags: Productivity

Connect with your entire team, in one simple application.

Don’t get caught up with seven conversations in six different applications, or with thousands of emails flying around between staff associates; Microsoft Teams enables you to chat instantly with your workforce in one single application, across any device that you use.

Unite the conversation.

Like old-fashioned instant messaging applications, Teams allows you to communicate swiftly and efficiently with any one single member, (or all), of your team, whether your next door or on a different island. Send messages, file attachments, locations (and even memes).

But, unlike other apps, Teams is a secure, commercial product that forms part of your Office 365 cloud environment and is fully within your power. Non-commercial chat services, such as WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger, are personal to each entity and the past of the chat, the content and any files/images shared within that space are beyond your control.

Cut down on all the needless emails.

Most industries rely heavily on email, both internally among staff members, as well as externally with clients, suppliers and contractors. As reliable as email is; it’s unproductive and hard to keep track of…

You’ve been there… copious emails back and forth between a variety of team members about one single document. The document has been altered multiple times and now no one knows which version is the newest. It’s not saved centrally and at different points people have been copied in or out of the email chain. It’s madness.

Teams connects and streamlines co-working communication in one single channel. Backed by SharePoint, Microsoft’s Cloud file storage platform, Teams provides a unified way to share files without the confusion of email attachments and puzzling version control.

Lost among an assortment of tools and resources?

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

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

If you are considering traveling 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.