ORLANDO, Fla., March 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- At Enterprise
Connect 2019, Microsoft Corp. was awarded top honors for its new
vision for Microsoft Teams, which is focused on making
communication and collaboration easier for the entire workforce,
including those on the Firstline. This is the second year in a row
that Microsoft has been chosen for the Best of Enterprise Connect
Overall award, which is presented to a company making significant
technology advancements within the enterprise communications and
collaboration industry.
"It is because of our customers that Teams has become what it is
today," said Lori Wright, Microsoft
general manager of Workplace Collaboration. "Our goal is to
bring Microsoft's hub for teamwork to all workers — not just the
people sitting at desks with PCs, but also those on the Firstline,
such as factory floor workers, grocery clerks and people with only
a mobile device."
Among the expanded set of features available today in Teams are
tools dedicated to addressing the needs of Firstline
Workers — the more than 2 billion people worldwide who
work in roles that make them the first point of contact between a
company and its customers or products. Built on the global scale of
Microsoft Office 365 with its user base of more than 155 million
monthly active commercial users, Teams is the only product that
brings together everything a team needs — collaboration, meetings,
calling, and the power of the Office apps — into a single, secure
hub for teamwork supported by an ecosystem of first- and
third-party interactive devices.
Over the past two years, Teams has grown significantly in both
new capabilities and customer usage, becoming the hub for teamwork
that brings people together and fosters a culture of engagement and
inclusion. Tuesday at Enterprise Connect, Microsoft unveiled eight
new capabilities in Teams that make collaboration more
inclusive, effective and secure.
- Customized backgrounds take Teams' intelligent
background blur technology to the next level, allowing participants
to select a custom background — such as a company logo or an office
environment — during a meeting or video call. This improves the
effectiveness of remote meetings by encouraging the use of video
and minimizing distractions.
- Content cameras and Intelligent Capture in Microsoft
Teams Rooms will soon support an additional camera for capturing
content, such as information on analog whiteboards. Using any USB
camera, Microsoft Teams Rooms leverages Microsoft's new Intelligent
Capture processing to capture, focus, resize and enhance whiteboard
images and text, so remote attendees can clearly see whiteboard
brainstorming in real time, even when someone is standing in front
of the whiteboard.
- Microsoft Whiteboard in Teams meetings provides an
infinite digital canvas for participants to work together directly
in Teams. You can even add content from a physical whiteboard onto
the digital Whiteboard canvas without having to re-create it from
scratch.
- Live captions make your Teams meetings more inclusive
for attendees who are deaf or hard of hearing, have different
levels of language proficiency, or are connecting from a loud
location. Improve meeting effectiveness by allowing attendees to
read speaker captions in real time so they can more easily stay in
sync and contribute to the discussion.
- Secure private channels allow you to customize which
members of the team can see conversations and files associated with
a channel. You can restrict channel participation and exposure when
needed without having to create separate teams to limit
visibility.
- Information barriers avoid conflicts of interest within
organizations by limiting which individuals can communicate and
collaborate with each other in Microsoft Teams. This helps limit
the disclosure of information by controlling communication between
the holders of information and colleagues representing different
interests. This is particularly helpful for organizations that need
to adhere to ethical walls requirements and other related industry
standards and regulations.
- Data Loss Prevention (DLP) in chats and conversations
enables customers to detect, automatically protect and screen for
sensitive information in chats and channel conversations. By
creating DLP policies, admins can help prevent sensitive
information from unintentionally being shared or leaked — either
inside or outside the organization.
- Live events in Microsoft 365 enables anyone to create
live and on-demand events that deliver compelling communications to
employees, customers and partners. Live events use video and
interactive discussions across Teams, Stream or Yammer and can be
as simple, or as sophisticated, as needed. Up to 10,000 attendees
can participate in real time from anywhere, on any device, or they
can catch up later with powerful artificial intelligence (AI)
features — such as automatic transcription — to unlock the content
of the event recording.
Since the introduction of Teams in 2017, customers in every
industry around the world have turned to Teams to tap into the
collective intelligence of their organization and get work done.
Today, more than 500,000 organizations, including 91 of the Fortune
100 companies, use Teams to collaborate across 181 markets and in
44 languages.
Those wanting to get started with Microsoft Teams should visit
https://teams.microsoft.com/start.
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) enables digital
transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an
intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every
organization on the planet to achieve more.
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