Teams is the best - but not perfect
December 11, 2023
Teams is the best - but not perfect
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Teams
For us Teams is the lifeblood of collaboration on a day-to-day basis.
We use it for immediate peer communications, meetings, file sharing, project collaboration and global notifications and management.
Teams allows us to stay connected in a virtual environment and be as unified just as effectively if we were in the office together.
We use it for immediate peer communications, meetings, file sharing, project collaboration and global notifications and management.
Teams allows us to stay connected in a virtual environment and be as unified just as effectively if we were in the office together.
Pros
- Virtual meetings - ease of set up and execution
- File sharing! We build channels for projects, and being able to invite only project members is huge!
- Peer-to-peer communications - being able to "ping" one of my colleagues, either text, video or call-only, on-demand, is what runs our business.
Cons
- Collaborating with external project members; the process and functionality is still not obvious, nor is it optimal - I would call it "kludgy"
- Creating different Channels for projects is still a bit wonky, that area of fleshing out freedom to create new channels in a more open directory metaphor seems lost - everything tends to be too tied to your initial folder permissions which is stifling
- Scheduling meetings from within Teams - all too often I schedule meetings that include outside collaborators/stakeholders, and they simply never get the invites. I have to copy the meeting info, create a calendar event in Outlook, add in the meeting info, and add the external stakeholders from there. It would seem an easy fix to better integrate Outlook calendar and Teams calendar.
- ROI is great - we're totally integrated around Teams so we simply could not run our business without
- Project collaboration is excellent which allows us to bring programs to market faster and with better results
- Slack, Zoom and GoTo Meeting
We chose primarily because of the promised integration with the Microsoft Business Suite - which it mostly delivers on. That does give Teams an obvious advantage over competitors. IMHO Teams has a richer, more mature feature set, and the experience is more reliable and stable. Although like any of there there is room for imporvement.
Do you think Microsoft Teams delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Microsoft Teams's feature set?
Yes
Did Microsoft Teams live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Microsoft Teams go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Microsoft Teams again?
Yes
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