Introducing Microsoft Teams the chat-based workspace in Office 365

Today’s post ended up being compiled by Kirk Koenigsbauer, business vice president for work group.

Today, at a meeting in new york, we announced Microsoft Teamsthe brand new workspace that is chat-based Office 365. Microsoft Teams is definitely an completely brand new experience that brings together people, conversations and contentalong with the t ls that teams needso they can effortlessly collaborate to reach more. It’s naturally integrated utilizing the familiar Office applications and is built from the ground up on any Office 365 international, protected cloud. Starting today, Microsoft Teams is available in preview in 181 nations plus in 18 languages to commercial customers with Office 365 Enterprise or company plans, with general availability anticipated into the very first quarter of 2017.

At Microsoft, our company is deeply focused on the mission of assisting individuals and organizations achieve moreand reinventing productivity for the cloud and mobile world is core to your aspiration. We built Microsoft Teams because we come across both tremendous opportunity and tremendous change in how people and teams get work done. Teams are now more agile and structures that are organizational flat to help keep communications and information flowing. With Microsoft Teams, we aspire to develop a more available, electronic environment that produces work noticeable, integrated and accessibleacross the teamso everybody can stay in the recognize.

Microsoft Teams delivers on four core claims to produce a electronic workspace for high performing teams.

Microsoft Teams

Meet the hub for teamwork in Office 365.

Chat for today’s teams

First and foremost, Microsoft Teams supplies a conversation that is modern for today’s teams. Microsoft Teams supports not just persistent but additionally threaded chats to keep everyone engaged. Group conversations are, by default, visible to the team that is entire but there is however of program the ability for private conversations. Skype is deeply integrated, so teams can participate in voice and movie conferences. And everyone else can add character for their electronic workplace with emojis, stickers, GIFs and customized memes making it their very own.

A hub for teamwork

Second, Microsoft Teams offers the complete breadth and depth of Office 365 to supply a real hub for teamwork. Term, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, OneNote, Planner, Power BI and Delve are all constructed into Microsoft Teams so people have most of the information and t ls they require at their fingertips. Supported by the Microsoft Graph, intelligent services are surfaced through the workspace to greatly help with information relevancy, development and sharing. Microsoft Teams is also built on Office 365 Groupsour cross-application membership service which makes it possible for people to go naturally from a single collaboration t l to a different, protect their sense of share and context with other people.

Customizable for every group

Third, since all teams are unique, we’ve spent deeply in many ways for individuals to modify their workplace, with rich extensibility and APIs that is open at general access. For instance, Tabs provides fast access to frequently employed documents and cloud services. Microsoft Teams additionally shares the Connector that is same model Exchange, supplying notifications and updates from third-party solutions like Twitter or GitHub. Further, we are including full help for the Microsoft Bot Framework to create smart very first- and third-party solutions into the group environment.

Today, our company is additionally announcing the Microsoft Teams Developer Preview program, allowing designers to give Microsoft Teams. We will have integrations with more than 150 partners at general availabilityincluding our early partners Zendesk, Asana, H tsuite and Intercom. This is the step that is first supplying the edarling free customization users want while the t ls and help our designer community will have to integrate with Microsoft Teams.

Safety groups trust

Finally, Microsoft Teams supplies the security that is advanced conformity capabilities which our Office 365 clients anticipate. Data is encrypted in transportation and also at rest. As with any our commercial solutions, we’ve a clear model that is operational no standing access to consumer information. Microsoft Teams will support key compliance requirements including EU Model Clauses, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HIPAA and more. And, as clients would expect, Microsoft Teams is served out of our hyper-scale global network of information facilities, automatically provisioned within Office 365 and managed centrally, in the same way some other Office 365 solution.

Microsoft Teams joins work 365 t lkit that is universal

Microsoft Teams joins the broadest and deepest portfolio of collaboration applications and services to aid solve the diverse needs of people and organizations globally. As we’ve learned from our 85 million active month-to-month users, all groups have a diverse set of requirements with regards to working together. Office 365 is made for the unique workstyle of each and every team and includes purpose-built applications, all deeply integrated together.

• SharePoint provides intranets and management that is content to more than 200,000 companies and 190 million people.
• Yammer is the myspace and faceb k for work, enabling cross-company conversations for 85 % of the Fortune 500.
• Skype for Business provides voice that is real-time video clip and conferencing and hosts significantly more than 100 million conferences a month.
• Office 365 Groups is our cross-application membership solution which makes it possible for people to move obviously in one collaboration t l to some other.