From a functional point of view
From a more functional point of view, there are a number of important features in all Microsoft applications that can make your life easier with Microsoft Consulting firm. However, if they remain unknown to you, you will not gain in efficiency. Using Word as a typewriter would not make sense, for example, because its value is contained in the set of tools that add up to make it a complete word processor.
Let's see as an example a feature of Teams that can save you time. If you have never asked yourself the question of its usefulness, it is likely that you do not use it and waste time performing the action it allows.
For example if I want to know the activity of a collaborator on the groups where I am present. With just a few clicks, rather than manually sifting through all the chats one by one, I can activate a feature that will do it for me in seconds.
This is what the main Teams interface looks like
You might think out of habit that the central bar is a classic search bar, but if you take a closer look it's actually a little more than that!
Once the contact is selected in a few seconds, I have access to their recent activities, much easier than searching all the groups.
Of course this functionality is only an example of what is possible. The goal here is to understand that when you acquire Office 365, getting support on the uses of these applications can help you make the most of the features that are most suitable for you.
Proof by the numbers: the impact of Teams
We have used Teams as an example, but it is only an application and could not summarize the potential offered by Office 365 on its own.
We have responded here to a specific problem of communication and collaboration. But your company may encounter other issues such as security or data management, for example, where other tools will be necessary. It is to master this complexity that we recommended in our previous article to define a clear development roadmap from the start.
Provide employees with the tools and services that will meet business needs and train them to acquire good practices. The objective is to allow the use of only what will be most useful for a specific use. It is in this logic of optimized deployment and support that we have created the Drive offer.
Choose a digital transformation designed around business uses and processes
One of the phases that will make all the difference in the effectiveness of your digital transformation project is its upstream reflection.
In the classic project vision, the transformation is based on successive projects centered on the tools and their configuration. We set up solutions to respond to a specific problem that we deploy service by service. First Outlook, then SharePoint, then OneDrive and so on.
This method takes a long time to set up and quickly demotivates your employees. The result ? your ROI will not meet your expectations because adoption will be difficult.
The Drive approach is more global , it allows to deploy all Office 365 services and to define business needs in collaboration in order to train and adapt to specific uses. You don't learn to use a tool just to use a tool, you understand which ones are the most effective in responding to a problem. For example to collaborate or communicate.
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