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Well, probably not, but you may find a few common misperceptions here that could change your strategic planning for your company’s technology platform over the next decade.
The adoption and implementation of Microsoft Teams® can be an operational game-changer for companies with 2 to 20,000 employees.
MS Teams® can transform your traditional, premise-based file management system to a more secure, searchable, and accessible cloud-based file management system.
MS Teams® can help your company adopt new cloud-based end-user management, security systems, file management practices, and productivity tools.
MS Teams® can extend your telephone strategy beyond the traditional VOIP Systems you are likely considering today to a new, more simplified, and cost-effective platform for all of your SIP device needs and perhaps even your PBX requirements.
Recognizing the Challenge
It is arguably the most prolific, current strategy for companies to migrate their traditional, premise-based IT Infrastructure out of their server rooms and data centers into a Cloud-Centric environment.
The advantages of a Cloud-Centric strategy to companies have moved from the theoretical to facts:
- Reduced Operational Costs (hardware, databases, servers, licensing, IT human resources)
- Migration from Capital Expense model to a more flexible Operating Expense model
- Proven reliability and availability (99.99% Uptime)
- Realtime scalability
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In the arena of Cloud Enterprise providers, the vendors’ field has narrowed significantly over the past 5 years. In this writer’s opinion, there are but 3 elite providers that provide the types of services needed by any business of any size and do so at a price point that is meaningful to even the smallest of the Small-Mid Size Businesses (SMB’s).
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While it is easy to find yourself assessing Microsoft Teams® as an alternate solution for Slack or Google Hangouts, or you are considering either augmenting or replacing your IP Phone System with Teams®. The truly high-value assessment of a Microsoft Teams® deployment comes from recognizing that Microsoft Teams® can provide your company with an enabling pathway to your over-all Cloud-Solution strategy deployment.
Let’s break this down.
A Microsoft Cloud-Solution can seem daunting to many businesses.
The migration of your file systems, user management, security, applications, and communications away from your tried-and-true on-premise solutions is a significant shift in your strategy. It comes with significant challenges such as needing to learn new technologies, planning new file management strategies and organizational design, physical migration of your files from your ‘old system’ to your new Cloud-Solution systems, User Migrations, Application Migrations, and a significant change in your employees’ behavior.
Many companies become paralyzed in the starting blocks, intimidated by the sheer scope of the challenge and the uncertainty of how to move from their current model to their new model successfully.
In this writer’s opinion, this is where the successful deployment of Microsoft Teams® shines and adds the greatest initial value.
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These are a few simple ways to find that a successful Microsoft Teams® deployment can help a business fast-track its overall Cloud Solution Strategy.
As your company matures with your use of the Microsoft Teams® platform, you can expand the features found within Microsoft Teams® as needs arise. For example, if you find yourself needing to add or replace your business telephone system, you will find that Microsoft Teams® can provide you with a cost-effective, full-service business telephone system complete with PBX, Call Management, Voice Mail, and other standard business telephone systems features.
Microsoft Teams® can be a transformative tool not only for your Communications and Collaboration infrastructure, but it can also be a force-multiplier to your overall Microsoft Cloud Solution Strategy.
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