What is Microsoft Teams?A single pane of glass into your company's collaboration.
Microsoft Teams has really come into its own during the current pandemic, keeping dispersed groups in a central platform combining video conferencing, file sharing, work planning tools and persistent chat. People often compare Microsot Teams with Zoom or Slack, but the reality is that is has features comparable with both competing products, but it does both, and so much more. Which makes Microsoft Teams the only complete collaboration tool, specifically for working remotely.
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What can Microsoft Teams be used for?
Within the Microsoft toolkit, Teams replaced Skype for Business as Microsoft's audio and video conferencing tool. But it's so much more than that, it's also:
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Microsoft Teams is the cornerstone of Microsoft’s modern workplace. It can be accessed online through the browser or an installed desktop application. Teams is built on Office 365 Groups, which provides a team of people a space for collaboration. It connects many other Office 365 applications such as Planner, OneNote and SharePoint, and has replaced other tools such as StaffHub and Skype for Business. At its core, Teams is a series of tabs that connect to other systems and pages, as well as an out-of-the-box instant messaging platform, with voice and video calls, screen sharing, external sharing, and collaboration. It’s easy-to-use and clean user experience is intuitive and easy to adopt.
Comparison table: Microsoft Team Vs Zoom Vs Slack
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How is Microsoft Teams different to Slack? Isn't Zoom a better conferencing center?
What should you choose, Teams, Zoom or Slack? Zoom is a really good online meeting tool, and slack is great for facilitating collaboration withing your organisation. But Microsoft Teams does it both, with the added bonus of top of the line security and integrating with Outlook and Word and all the tools yours all ready using, straight out of the box with no extra configurations. Plus, you're likely already paying for Teams if you have Office 365. |
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Feature |
Microsoft Teams |
Zoom Pro |
Slack Standard |
Cost |
Included with your Office 365 |
$14.99/user/month |
USD $6.67/user/month |
Online meetings via a simple link |
Yes |
Yes |
X |
Perpetual chat and meeting spaces to join anytime |
Yes |
Yes |
X |
1:1 Video and voice calls |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Analytics and reporting |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Advanced meeting options: Custom backgrounds, Chat and file sharing, Screen sharing, Breakout rooms, Polls and surveys Record your meeting |
Yes Yes Yes Yes Coming soon Yes Yes, instantly saved to Stream |
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes |
X X X Yes in paid version X Yes Yes |
VOIP calls to mobiles and landlines |
Available as an add-in |
Available as an add-in |
X |
Limits: Meeting length Number of participants Chat history |
250 participants 10,000 attendees Unlimited |
100 participants 10,000 attendees up to 10 years |
15 participants n/a 10,000 most recent |
Security |
Top of the line, out of the box and single sign on with Office |
Configurations available |
Configurations available |
Integration with other systems |
Out of the box and build around Office and business tools |
Configurations available |
Configurations available |
Task management |
Works with Planner out of the box |
X |
Integrates with "actions" |
Teams, groups and both company wide and private channels |
Yes |
X |
Yes |
Taking notes |
Works with OneNote out of the box |
X |
Yes, has "notes" tab |
Document collaboration and co-authoring |
Yes |
Only sharing attachments |
Only by integrating with Office 365 |
Tabs embedding you other business applications |
Yes |
X |
Yes |
Can be integrated with easily designed company apps |
Yes, with Power Apps |
X |
X |
Chat bots |
Yes, instantly enhanced with Microsoft machine learning |
Yes configurable |
Yes configurable |
External guest access |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Advanced search |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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