With over 27 million meetings per month and more than 115 million daily active users, the increase in Microsoft Teams’ adoption continues both in the business environment and in education.

Here are some of the latest Microsoft Teams updates, which could be helpful to improve your business communications and workflows:

COLLABORATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • APPROVALS will simplify requests approval. This function will allow creating, managing, and sharing approvals directly from the hub for teamwork, speeding up approval flows, while keeping them always under control. Watch the official Microsoft video to know more.
  • TASKS: organizations will be able to create tasks centrally at the corporate level and publish them to different locations, sharing them with managers as well with frontline teams. Frontline users can view and manage both individual tasks and team tasks and they can prioritize them, keeping under control all their to-do list directly in Teams.
  • ADD A SHARED CALENDAR TO A TEAMS CHANNEL: Members of a specific channel will be able to add a shared calendar in the channel. When a new meeting is scheduled, a new post notifies people in that same channel, and they can easily add the event also to their personal calendar. In this way, everyone in the channel will have visibility on upcoming events.

CHAT AND CALL EXPERIENCE

  • DIAL-IN NUMBER: now you can join Microsoft Teams meetings for free also with a global dial-in number from a mobile device.
  • NEW CERTIFIED SBC: the list of SBC certified for the Direct Routing for Microsoft Teams continues to grow. New SBC vendors have successfully completed the Session Border Controller certification process. Included in this list, there are some world-famous companies like Ribbon Communications, Audiocodes, Oracle, Avaya.
  • CORTANA VOICE ASSISTANCE: soon you will be able to schedule a meeting, add participants to an invitation and compose messages, using your voice.
  • MULTI-WINDOWS VIEW: jumping from one conversation to another will be much easier, as this feature allows you to pop-out different chats in separate windows. The same new option is available for meetings and calling experience, helping to optimize your workflow.

Microsoft announced also the integration with SAP applications, available from mid-2021. This will allow the use of collaboration tools with no need to go from one platform to the other, increasing business productivity. Users will be able to contact directly the partner with real-time communication.

These are some of the latest official updates, but if you like to deepen them all, please refer to Microsoft’s official blog.