Microsoft Teams - Excellent Collaborative Tool
We use Microsoft Teams for all internal communications among coworkers across the organization and it has proven to be a useful tool for …
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What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
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- Chat (191)8.989%
- Discussions (177)8.888%
- Mobile Access (174)8.484%
- Notifications (189)8.484%
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What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
Microsoft Teams features three tiers of pricing. The first is a subscription-less, free option that offers the same features as the other two tiers but does not offer administration tools like analytics and access to on-premise servers, or support features like 24/7 phone and web support. The second and third tiers are based on the size of your business and its conferencing needs. Its “Office 365 Business Premium” option starts at $12.50 a month per user, with a required annual commitment, and its “Office 365 E3” option for enterprises starts at $20 a month per user, also with a required annual commitment.
Key Features
Meetings: Meet with teams of 10 or 10,000. Host audio, video, and web
conferences with anyone inside or outside your organization or go big with live
events.
Calling: Its Phone System feature enables PBX capabilities including
call control in Office 365 and replaces on-premises PBX. Its calling features
are customizable to fit your organization’s unique needs.
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Microsoft Teams Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Microsoft Teams combines video conferencing software with team collaboration tools. The communications platform allows MS Office users to conduct conference calls and share files via SharePoint, and join or initiate a group chat.
Microsoft Teams starts at $5.
Reviewers rate Chat highest, with a score of 8.9.
The most common users of Microsoft Teams are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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December 08, 2023
Microsoft Teams - Excellent Collaborative Tool
We use Microsoft Teams for all internal communications among coworkers across the organization and it has proven to be a useful tool for exchanging documents. When we're in a hurry and need to see each other's screens, the screen sharing tool has come in handy. It's especially important for team members because they work in different locations. In comparison to other products such as Jabber and Webex, this has been the best application I've used to date.
- It has a presentation mode, video recording, and the recordings, as well as the transcripts, are stored in the cloud.
- Microsoft Teams is simple to set up and manage. Excellent quality for video and phone calls.
- I also like how it connects to Outlook so you can view your calendar there.
- Switching between presentations and screens is a bit difficult.
- It slows down the laptop. When I turn on my laptop, it takes a long time for Microsoft Teams to load and I don't have to click on it to access it.
- There should be an easier way to send recordings outside of your organization other than downloading from Stream.
December 05, 2023
The Integrated Collaboration Platform for Efficient Teams
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Powerful tool to use it to the communicate with multiple work teams inside the organization through personal messages, audio and video calls. Allow to schedule internal meetings and tasks. Microsoft Teams allows to be integrated with others resources like word, Excel and PowerPoint, making work easier. Many times the messages replace emails. This toll helps to increase productivity, bringing ease to the entire business process and day-to-day activities.
- Audio and VideoConferences
- Messages betwen work temas
- Schedule meetings
- Integration with Microsoft 365 tools
- To get better support
- To make this software more intuitive
- Improve document sharing
November 29, 2023
Could do better
Microsoft Teams has become the main communication channel in our team.<br>It offers many advantages to the old and sometimes bulky classic emails.<br>The integration with other Microsoft Apps is good (not great) and offers many possibilities to make Teams a central hub for information exchange.<br>But the new pest after 'Reply to All' mails are new Team Channels popping up with every Project or Task. This can cet very confusing and hard to search for a specific bit of information or document buried deep in some random subchannel in some subfolder.
- removes the pain from scrolling through endless long mail threads with mail signatures taking up most of the screen space
- quick way to reach out to colleagues via message or voice call
- integration with landline phone
- share documents with certain colleagues or external partners
- sometimes choses the wrong microphone (internal instead of headset) resulting in bad audibility
- new version 2 lacks some features from old version
- often it doesn't ring in the mobile app
November 27, 2023
Communication with Teams
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Its very good app to be used, especially in today's virtual world its needed to get the work done as soon as possible, to communicate with tje colleagues and also with the clients.
- screen recording
- communication
- audio sharing can be added
- not allow others to join without the permission
November 06, 2023
In principle I am very disappointed when using Microsoft Teams.
In my experience, the application doesn't work at times. I think improvements are definitely needed. I actually found Skype much more user friendly and efficient when I used it 10 years ago.
In my experience, there are times that it just doesn't work.
In my experience, there are times that it just doesn't work.
- On a desktop or laptop computer I think it does work quite well but, in my experience, on mobiles it's a different story
- On my two mobile devices it just doesn't work. But the company is committed to the use of Microsoft Teams at the moment.
- Due to employee complaints we may move to another app.
- Hardware that was installed to support Microsoft Teams meetings in our meeting rooms do not work at all. I think it's horrendous.
- In my opinion, if people out there willing to spend money on it, I would be very careful and I would propose a proper assessment to be done prior to making an agreement.
October 20, 2023
Great Communcatino and Collaboration Tool
In my organisation Microsoft Teams is used mainly to do Conference calls We also use it to Collaborate on files saved on OneDrive Moreover it allows communitations between organisations, so communication is both internal and external The calendar feature in Microsoft Teams is used to schedule a meeting and also to organise the day The integration with outlook's calendar makes it even more interesting When we have to handover control to over people during a conference call Microsoft Teams is the way to go
Likewise we can set up integrations such as notification from other softwares
Channels/Teams can be created to message and collaborate with specific people
Likewise we can set up integrations such as notification from other softwares
Channels/Teams can be created to message and collaborate with specific people
- Screen sharing
- Sharing screen control
- Conference Call
- Collaboration on files
- Integration with Microsoft Office softwares
- Can create groups to collaborate and communicate
- Real time file editing between multiple members
- Client for Linux based OS can be improved
October 10, 2023
Communication Software
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Teams is the best communications platform that combines persistent workplace chat, online meetings, video conferencing, file storage, and application integration purpose. We can also use Microsoft Teams on the mobile application so it means it can be accessible all around the world from everywhere. Microsoft Teams application is very easy to use and user friendly.
- File sharing
- video conference
- Presentation and seminars
- New templates is required
- AI boats or auto message option should be available
- reduce in prices
September 15, 2023
Teams makes Teamwork efficient and fun :-)
We use Teams on a daily-basis for a wide variety of meetings: internal and external. Sometimes in group, sometimes 1-1 (with only two participants). The Teams chat and the screen sharing features are almost always used. People turn their cameras on most of the time, and mute themselves when not speaking. Some participants join from their mobile device if they are not at the office or at home at the time of the call.
- Screen-sharing capability
- Team chat
- Force-call attendees who are late to the call
- The polls functionality is hard to find
- Presenting a document and seeing people's faces is not easy
- Muting a participant requires multiple clicks
September 07, 2023
Microsoft Teams - Gives a local experience to a remote employee
- Voice calling
- Chatting &
- Team meetings (Audio & Video)
- File sharing
- Audio quality in meetings
- Conferencing without any voice problems
- Easy File sharing
- Integration of AI for writing suggestions
- Facility of voice message like WhatsApp
- Rest all is good
September 01, 2023
I'm on Team Teams!
Teams allows our expansive team to coordinate through chats and calls, in various chat groups and channels, meaning we have a lot more time for our projects as we aren't gathering for meetings all the time now. We can easily organise ourselves for meetings as and when it suits everybody and can clearly see when people aren't available etc.
- Organisation
- Co-ordination
- Communication
- Sometimes employees complain that online status sticks on offline when they are not and obviously this can cause big problems when employees are remote and it looks as though they aren't working when they are
August 10, 2023
Teams a Good tool for an organization
Microsoft team we use for communicating with all the users in the organization for file sharing, Crated groups BU-wise help a lot of time to collaborate and communicate with all the teams. We use town hall meetings for the entire organization. We use it for daily Candence calls even we schedule calls with customers to resolve there issues.
- we use channel-wise teams like production channel, quality channel, UAT channel
- We use video conference for team awards and celebrations
- we schedule the calendar for the whole month for planning the activites
- In mobile it is lagging they have to improve in mobile function working area
- When we are using it for town hall meetings it will be hang because of huge audience
- Delay in Notification need to improve
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Microsoft Teams daily in our company for all the communication needs: chat with colleagues in a private chat, make audio/video calls, host online meetings, and attend and host virtual conferences.
Microsoft Teams definitely improved collaboration and team work in our company.
It's great tool for personal and business needs!
Microsoft Teams definitely improved collaboration and team work in our company.
It's great tool for personal and business needs!
- Team work simplification
- Integrated with other Microsoft products
- Instant Chats
- Video Calls can be better
- Confusing File Structure
- Improve Search. There's no possibility to go to the original message, it just shows you all found messages in one window
July 25, 2023
Microsoft Teams Review
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
In our company, Microsoft Teams is used when an alternative is not available, being an external made choice for a webinar or meeting, or maybe an option associated with an Office 365 suite. While it works, it's interface isn't very user friendly when stacked up against other collaboration tools available, both free or paid ones, even now that has been on the market for sometime.
- It's "free" for almost every company that has MS products.
- User Interface
- Bandwidth needs
- General Collab features availability (comparing with other platforms)
July 19, 2023
Microsoft Teams a centralized application
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Teams is a nice collaboration tool, we use in our organization as the main collaboration tool, we use it for chatting, meetings, inbound and outbound calls. The tool helped us move away from using soft phones that constantly cause issues with phone calls and now we have integrated our own phone number and we can receive and do calls. This enabled us to low cost by removing the need of 2 different software and cost of license per agent/user.
- Setting up meetings and record them
- Integrates natively with Outlook and one drive/Sharepoint
- Create teams channels for specific tasks/projects and the conversation will be backed up along with files.
- When you download files, the application can lag and even crash, this portion needs to be improved.
- One to one calls cant be recorder unless you set up a meeting.
- slowness when opening a file in the app, like a excell sheet.
- Add meeting reminders when the meeting is about to start similar to Outlook.
June 30, 2023
Teams reviewed
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Teams allows for instant messaging and documents sharing. Conversation history is great as well.
- Presence
- Messaging
- Usability across platforms
- Screen sharing ease of use
- Conference call delegates
June 13, 2023
Microsoft Teams works great for all communication types (audio, video, chat, and sharing content)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Microsoft Teams is used for audio calls both internally and publicly (PSTN); group meetings with audio/video/screen-sharing; chatting with contacts; and team file access.
- Audio calls both internally and publicly (PSTN)
- Group meetings with audio/video/screen-sharing
- Chatting with contacts
- Providing present status of team members so that you know if colleagues are available or busy
- Providing call health settings to identify the round trip time and percentage of received packet loss
- Multi-organization account access is poor because it requires logging out in order to switch accounts
- Lacking presence status and file access to account that one is no longer logged in to
- Add ability to import a customized avatar
We use Teams for daily communications. Without Teams, we would be left without a means of communicating our ideas and concerns.
- Provide a means for chatting with other members of our team
- Schedule teams meetings without need for a 3rd party app
- Create teams groups to disseminate information
- Teams meetings frequently drop calls and needs to be re-dialed.
- Searching for words in Teams is not the best.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I sit out of our Noida office in India whereas we have counterparts in sales, customer success and various other functions operating from the rest of the world. Oftentimes, one needs to connect with a colleague from a different geography and Teams is the perfect platform to do so. Not only can you find whoever you are looking for, but you also have display pictures, organizational charts, reporting manager details and a lot more information available which is very helpful. Personally, I feel it is the only right way to collaborate in an enterprise, especially since e-mails are way too formal.
- Colleague Search
- Instant Messaging
- Voice Calls
- Video Calls
- Access publicly available information
- I'd like the option to keep myself "available" even when I'm away from my laptop so everyone knows they can reach out to me. It doesn't have to show me as "away" every time I start using my browser or step away from my laptop.
- A full screen presentation mode
- The option to see thumbnails of all participants, regardless of the number
We use Teams to facilitate online meetings which are either on-one-one or with teams/squads.
- Great user experience
- Chat functionality embedded within each meeting
- Well sync'd with Outlook
- Can crash every now and then
- Camera freezes - need to fix this defect which seems quite regular
- Mobile app video call experience is lacking
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Microsoft Teams daily in our company. We have 2 branches and several remote employees across the country. Microsoft Teams keeps everyone together and on the same page. When used in conjunction with Sharepoint, it is like we are all in one place. We are able to share files, share our screens, we can plan meetings to happen on Microsoft Teams or quickly jump into a meeting if we need to address an issue quickly.
- Microsoft Teams Meetings are easy to set up
- Collaborating on specific projects
- keeping track on where we are on projects
- I would like to have an IT version where I could actually use Microsoft Teams to remotely assist end users with IT Issues.
- I would like to have subgroups within a larger group with out having to create another group
April 25, 2023
Software that makes sense but is not yet perfect.
As a contractors, we use Microsoft Teams in different ways.The first is with our clients, usually non-profit organizations that work with multi-generational volunteers. Integrating non-company people into the Team universe is not the most user-friendly solution. There are often difficulties in accessing documents and navigating through the infrastructure of the interface. It therefore requires each time to educate the volunteers on how to use the platform.We also use the Microsoft Teams of our customers, who have provided us with email addresses from their organizations specifically for this purpose. We end up with conflicts between Teams, OneNote and Office 365 if we are not on the same user account for each of the software.In short, the tool is interesting but its protections against external access as well as the difficulty for users with multiple MS 365 accounts are a hindrance in our context.
- One meeting place for teamworking
- Instant messaging between members of a team
- Intégration with OneNote
- Intégration with ToDo
- Conflict with the choice of input when using headphones with an integrated microphone and an independent microphone, a problem that does not exist on zoom.
- Changing from one access to another for people with multiple accesses to Microsoft Office 365
- Access to the Teams universe for people outside the company who must have the same levels of access (subcontractor, volunteers in the case of non-profit organizations).
April 25, 2023
Love using Microsoft Teams!
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Scope is pretty broad with Microsoft Teams, doesn’t seem to be any problems in general. Microsoft Teams allows us to immediately get in touch and share meetings, documents, tasks, and information quickly and efficiently. I use Microsoft Teams daily and it certainly alleviates certain times when a quick connect can resolve a lengthy phone call.
- Connect people immediately
- Has both video & audio functionality
- Intertwined with Outlook
- Restarts are almost expected
- Not too glitchy
- Honestly excellent product overall
Microsoft Teams has replaced our previous document repository tool and has also replaced Skype as our new communication within teams members. It has a good structure to it (provided it is thought out), ease in use and good UI. There is also the ability to search within Microsoft Teams and that makes it easy to search for files/folders and communication history. It also integrates well with other plugins such as Microsoft power apps, Miro etc. so that has been a great help in managing work and comms.
- provides ability to organise folders and files (good front end to SharePoint)
- provides great use of communication between team members and external parties
- provides great integration with other apps such as Microsoft power platform, Miro etc.
- The search function could be made better- especially for finding things within chats
- It is a little annoying going to previous pages within Microsoft Teams, at times i feel like it would be nice to open things in a new windows
- sometimes Microsoft Team crashes - but very rarely and that can be a pain
March 04, 2023
Amazing software for team management and collaboration
Microsoft Teams is used for conducting online meetings regularly and helps us to connect with each other virtually. It is used across the whole organisation. Video conferencing becomes easier and with a variety of tools and options that come with Microsoft Teams, the group discussions feel just like an in-person conference.
- It is very simple to use and setup.
- Lot of options available for the organisers like Breakout rooms etc.
- It has a user friendly interface.
- The feature of notifications in the mobile application could be improved. Sometimes notifications of different teams are not visible and are only visible when the application is opened.
- It uses lots of computational resources while running and thus, slows down the system sometimes.
- It allows a few channels per team. The number of channels could be increased for better productivity.
February 21, 2023
Trashy and Buggy. Corporates please never buy and put your employee through this tool, day-in and out.
Score 1 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
USE: MS Teams is used as main communication tool in my organisation
Problem: Simple problem to address to provide seamless communication and collaboration, but it fails to solve it, but adds more problem
SCOPE: Daily communication, which is currently not working.
Problem: Simple problem to address to provide seamless communication and collaboration, but it fails to solve it, but adds more problem
SCOPE: Daily communication, which is currently not working.