General features
Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace which enables users to participate in voice and video conference calls, view full chat histories and email-style conversation threads, and more. It also provides the facility of integration with Skype for business platform. Microsoft Teams supports the Assistant bots from the Microsoft bot framework. It also provides features such as scheduling assistance, meeting note taking, screen sharing, meeting recording, and instant messaging.
Newer Innovations
Microsoft Teams provides the facility to organize large meetings, webinars, company-wide events, and presentations with up to 10,000 attendees. It also allows users to join audio conferencing with a global dial-in number or contact each other directly. Microsoft Teams helps users by automating the meetings. It provides the facility to Start meetings on time with one touch, experience rich HD audio and video, and share content with the room and remote participants easily. Microsoft Teams provides easy access to notes and recordings from previous meetings. It allows sharing content and collaborates easily during meeting through seamless integration with Office 365. Microsoft Teams also provides Automatic transcription facility that allows user to play back meetings and search for important discussion items in the transcript.
Why use it?
Microsoft Teams is a cost-effective collaborative software platform. Its supports multi-factor authentication (MFA) and single-sign on (SSO) via Active Directory (AD) that secures guest access and automatic encryption of data in transit and at rest. Microsoft Teams is built on the same enterprise-grade cloud platform as Office 365.
Industry’s Positive Comments
Some of the positive comments of the people in the industry are –
Microsoft Teams is an app that allows having everything in one place for their users.
It is possible to find all the information required in one place.
It’s easy to use and friendly.
It enables users to have group chats as well as individual chats
Microsoft Teams integrates with all other Microsoft products and makes it a seamless experience.
Needs Improvement
Some of the people in the industry want the function of separate pop out window for chats to be included. The client on Windows and Mac can be slow. Its new version is less user-friendly and can be improved.
Similar Products in Industry
Other Similar products available in market are UberConference, Skype, Cisco Webex Meetings, Zoom, Cisco Webex teams, Teamviewer, GoToMeeting etc.