Teams may be right for your teams.
Updated July 03, 2019
Teams may be right for your teams.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Teams
Many of our functional teams use Microsoft Teams. The most common use case is for messaging, scheduling, and planning. To a smaller extent, we use Teams to share and collaborate on documents. Outside of our Organizational Unit, Teams is also used, but I'm unfamiliar with their use cases and we have not yet used it to inter-operate with outside Teams or organizations.
- Integration with Office 365 tools like Outlook mail and calendar.
- I like the Planner application that's available within Teams channels. It makes it easy to plan and assign project tasks.
- While not superior to other messaging platforms, combining messaging with other Teams functions makes Teams an overall good tool.
- As I'm sure many others will say, private channels.
- Simpler integration with outside applications.
- Teams has enabled us to move away from SharePoint. The simplicity of Teams enables users to do what they need to do faster and is less problematic.
Teams has more out of the box functionality than Slack, and Teams apps are easier for casual users to get started with. Slack integrations, Webhooks, and bots make Slack a superior messaging platform. But when comparing on the basis of an enterprise collaboration tool, Teams wins when a company is already heavily using Office 365. If a company is not using Office 365, it's quite possible that Slack could be set up to be a better collaboration tool. I think Skype can do more in the way of VoIP to external parties, but for internal uses, I don't think Skype offers anything that Teams does not. SharePoint can do more than Teams, but requires more training of users and administration from staff. I'd imagine in most cases, Teams is the way to go.