Microsoft Teams

What differentiates Microsoft Teams from other similar products?

1. Teams offers Copilot and brings the power of AI in the flow of work to boost productivity. 2. Transforms meeting rooms into video-enabled collaboration spaces, where you can join meetings, share content, and make calls from a touch screen console device. 3. The new Microsoft Teams app is faster, simpler, smarter, and more flexible 4. Transform the employee experience with purpose-built tools that improves efficiency, engagement and security across the entire organization. 5. Live translation captions

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Intelligent Recap is my favorite since it leverages AI to automatically generate meeting summaries, action items/tasks, and meeting chapters/topics. Speaker timeline markers and personal timeline markers make it easy to navigate the meeting recording efficiently by enabling you to jump to a specific point in the recording.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Copilot is licensed separately which significantly increases the cost. It should be included in the Teams Premium add on.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Review your collaboration and communication use cases holistically and map them to Teams capabilities to get the most out of your investment. Do not overlook the fact that AI will become a critical part of work in future. Make sure you think about AI use cases that will improve employee experiences and productivity and analyze Teams capabilities in the context of AI.

What differentiates Microsoft Teams from other similar products?

Robust integration with Microsoft Office products, especially Microsoft Outlook. There are other products with great plug-ins for Outlook, but Teams so cleanly and easily integrates with Outlook since they're made by the same company. And Teams is supported by one of the top software companies in the world, which makes its support top of the line.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

With Teams & Outlook being closely linked together, it's so easy to manage my calendar, meetings, video calls and voice calls. I honestly cannot imagine going back to a time when we didn't have Teams. It's got everything you need to collaborate with your team mates.

What do you dislike most about this product?

I think the Search functionality could really be improved. It works on a pretty basic level, but it's not the most effective and convenient implementation. I'm the type of person that goes back to find conversations often, and I need it to work efficiently. I can typically find what I'm looking for, I just wish Search was more polished.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If your company is a Microsoft shop, or you rely heavily on Office products and team collaboration, then Teams truly is a very good product. It's especially great for any company that has employees who work from home at least part of the time. Teams is reliable and very useful.

What differentiates Microsoft Teams from other similar products?

Ease of access

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

User friendly

What do you dislike most about this product?

Not enough major issues to have a dislike

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Make sure Teams has what you're looking for