Teams in Small Businesses: A Productivity Boost

How small businesses can leverage Teams to improve productivity, streamline workflows, and reduce costs

Efficient communication and collaboration are essential for success in today’s fast-paced business environment. Microsoft Teams, a powerful collaboration platform, is a game-changer for small businesses, offering a range of features that can significantly enhance productivity, streamline workflows and reduce costs.

Key benefits of Teams for small businesses:

• Centralised communication: Teams provides a single platform for all forms of communication, including chat, voice calls, video conferencing and file sharing. This eliminates the need for multiple tools and reduces the risk of missed messages or lost information.
• Enhanced collaboration: With Teams, teams can work together seamlessly on projects, sharing files, discussing ideas and collaborating in real-time. This fosters a more productive and collaborative work environment.
• Improved productivity: Teams offers a variety of features that can help small businesses improve productivity, such as task management, calendar integration and automated workflows.
• Reduced costs: Teams can help small businesses reduce costs by eliminating the need for expensive office equipment and reducing travel expenses.

Teams seamlessly integrates with other Microsoft tools, creating a powerful and cohesive ecosystem for businesses.

For example, you can directly access and edit Office 365 documents like Word, Excel, and PowerPoint within Teams channels, eliminating the need to switch between applications. SharePoint sites can be integrated into Teams channels, allowing for easy file sharing and collaboration on documents stored in SharePoint libraries. Additionally, OneDrive files can be shared and accessed directly from Teams, making it a central hub for all business files and documents.

At Onecom Partners we offer two Teams products that can help small businesses get the most out of this powerful collaboration platform:

• Teams Direct Connect from BT Wholesale and OneHub SIP4Teams

Each provides a high quality, dedicated, reliable and cost-effective connection to Microsoft Teams, enabling Teams Phone System users to make and receive calls from and to phone numbers outside the Teams environment.

To learn more about and to discuss our Teams products, please contact your Partner Business Manager or email us at hello@onecompartners.co.uk.