REDMOND, Wash., March 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft
Corp. on Tuesday announced the general availability of Microsoft
Teams, the company's new chat-based workspace in Office 365. The
new tool for team collaboration is now available to Office 365
business customers in 181 markets and 19 languages.
Customers worldwide choose Office 365 to enable collaboration
within their organizations. Since Microsoft announced the preview
in November, more than 50,000 organizations have started using
Microsoft Teams, including Alaska Airlines, Cerner
Corporation, ConocoPhillips, Deloitte, Expedia, J.B. Hunt, J. Walter
Thompson, Hendrick
Motorsports, Sage, Trek Bicycle and Three UK.
"In a world where information is abundant and human time and
attention remain scarce, we aspire to help people and groups of
people be more productive, wherever they are," said Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft. "Office 365 is
the broadest platform and universal toolkit for creation,
collaboration and communication. Today we are adding a new tool to
Office 365 with Microsoft Teams, a chat-based workspace designed to
empower the art of teams."
Office 365 is designed to meet the unique workstyle of every
group with purpose-built, integrated applications: Outlook for
enterprise-grade email; SharePoint for intelligent content
management; Yammer for networking across the organization; Skype
for Business as the backbone for enterprise voice and video; and
now, Microsoft Teams.
According to Laurie Koch, vice
president of global customer service at Trek Bicycle, Microsoft
Teams is already streamlining the company's work by providing
assets and tasks in context: "Across Trek's global teams, the
integrated collection of Office 365 apps serves up a common toolset
to collaboratively drive the business forward. We see
Microsoft Teams as the project hub of Office 365 where everybody
knows where to find the latest documents, notes and tasks, all in
line with team conversations for complete context. Teams is quickly
becoming a key part of Trek's get-things-done-fast culture."
Microsoft has introduced more than 100 new features to Teams
since November, including an enhanced meeting experience, with
scheduling capabilities; mobile audio calling, with video calling
on Android now and coming soon to iOS and Windows Phone; email
integration; and new security and compliance capabilities. The
company has also delivered new features to make Microsoft Teams
more accessible, such as support for screen readers, and high
contrast and keyboard-only navigation. Guest access capabilities
and deeper integration with Outlook, and a richer developer
platform, are targeted for June of this year. For more details on
the new features, go to the Office Blog.
About Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams brings together
people, conversations and content, along with the tools that teams
need. It's integrated with familiar Office applications and is
built from the ground up on Office 365 and Microsoft's global,
secured cloud. Microsoft Teams is built on four core promises:
- Chat for today's teams. Microsoft Teams provides a
modern conversations experience, with threaded, persistent chat to
keep everyone engaged. Team conversations can be either private or
visible to the entire team, and users can access multiple teams,
making it easy to switch between projects.
- A hub for teamwork. The Office applications and services
that teams use every day — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and
OneNote and Power BI— are all built-in, so people have the
information and tools they need.
- Customization for every team. Microsoft Teams offers the
ability to customize work spaces with tabs, connectors and bots
from third-party partners as well as familiar Microsoft tools like
Microsoft Planner and Visual Studio Team Services. More than 150
integrations are available or coming soon, with companies like SAP,
Trello, Hipmunk, Growbot and ModuleQ building on the platform.
- Security teams trust. Microsoft Teams is built on the
hyper-scale, enterprise-grade Office 365 cloud, delivering the
advanced security and compliance capabilities that customers
expect. Teams supports global standards including SOC 1, SOC 2, EU
Model Clauses, ISO27001 and HIPAA.
Start using Teams today
Organizations interested in
the new chat-based workspace can start using Teams today. More
information on the philosophy behind Microsoft Teams and how it
works can be found at the Office Blog, the Microsoft Mechanics
video and by joining the Ask Us Anything session on the Microsoft
Tech Community next week.
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) is the leading platform and
productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and
its mission is to empower every person and every organization on
the planet to achieve more.
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