Microsoft Teams Collaboration is a proven step to improve employee communication, productivity, and teamwork by integrating all forms of collaborative tools into one single user interface. 

MS Teams: A Modern Workplace Essential

Remote work has become an inevitable part of the Work culture and a digital workplace, making sure that all the communication and collaboration are digitalized is a must. If the employees are empowered enough to work with the latest technologies and crisis phases gracefully, the organization will surely be able enough to adopt the digital workplace for the long term. We need to invest in the latest collaboration and communication platforms with digital capabilities to work in the most challenging environment in such a way that it can be replicated for as many people as possible     

All we need to take care of are:   

1. Technology  
2. Collaboration  
3. Productivity 

If we give a deeper look into it, all of these are interdependent: Technology supports communication and collaboration, which in turn bring in productivity. 

Here’s where Microsoft Teams emerges as the modern Digital Workplace hero. It is the hub for collaboration for many organizations with chat capabilities, video conferencing, file storage and integration with many Office 365 and other third-party apps. 

Microsoft Teams Migration

Business Benefits of Microsoft Teams Collaboration 

Microsoft Teams has emerged as the most popular communication and collaboration platform. With more than 80 million daily active users, it has become the ultimate collaboration hub of the digital workplace. With its increased usage, the data involved in Teams too is taking up the form of a humongous resource, which in turn is letting it become an inseparable part of the modern work culture.   

Therefore, it’s high time that the organizations adapt to Microsoft Teams and make it their default communication app. A business opting to embrace Teams into its work-culture is sure to profusely benefit from it in terms of better connectivity which in turn will boost the inter-team transparency and thus, deliverance quality. It will be a great boost to the ease of communication as well as the quality of collaboration. If adopted and utilized wisely, Microsoft Teams might turn out to be one of the top assets to deliver great business value to your organization. 

• Your employees will be entitled to greater ease of accessibility that in turn brings in better communication  
• Reaching Out and being Virtually connected has never felt easier! You can keep your whole Team in sync by having chats, Calls, Video conferences and meeting anytime literally from any part of the world 
• Collaboration becomes a lot easier while we are able to share docs within chats, use whiteboards or discuss each other’s work in real-time using screen share feature where multiple people can work together while the conversation goes on 
• The remote workforce is empowered as they never need to feel any disadvantage due to their location. This in turn keeps them motivated and feel at home. 
• The trainees and interns can enjoy complete learning and guidance from their mentors remotely 
• Interactive features like @mention, like, react, emoji, gifs makes working fun & expressive which in turn enhances Teamwork 
• Teams is a great Replacement for emails thus speeding up communication to a great extent 

Project management  

Microsoft Teams is basically a collaboration app but it can be quite useful for Project Management, as well. Microsoft Teams can be leveraged to facilitate communications, track project milestones and organize all the project related documents in a single place. 

• Teams can be used for internal communication as well as for Coordination with vendors, partners, clients and other external users who might be involved with a particular project 
• Dedicated channels in Teams can be created that focus on some particular topic, thus keeping work items segregated 
• The best part about using Microsoft Teams is definitely the lack of location restrictions. Your Team can break the geographical barrier to bring in the best results from literally anywhere 
• Multiple device compatibility of Microsoft Teams allows access from any device that you might be using at the moment 

 3rd Party tool integration to Teams  

Microsoft Teams has great integration capabilities. Even if your prime focus is collaboration, you can always enhance the Microsoft Teams capabilities by integrating many useful third-party solutions to it that might be quite useful to customize it according to your business needs. 

• Major business solutions like azure, jeera, etc can be integrated to Teams tabs to keep all the business information at one place 
• Sharepoint/ M365 integration to Teams can add the capabilities of SharePoint to teams to create a dynamically new set of great features 
• One drive/google drive integration with Teams will ensure systematic and organized data storage 
• Built-in teams security features are good enough in filtering unauthorized users accessing the sensitive business data 
• Teams allow Centralized setting to restrict the flow of sensitive data outside the organization 

Teams as Digital Workplace  

Microsoft Teams is a great collaboration app that can be considered a major element of digital workplace experience that enhances remote work in every way possible. But do you know what can be better than Teams in a digital workplace? An entire Digital Workplace within a Team! 

• Teams has multiple tabs that can be used to integrate external apps. It will be a great idea to include all the important business apps within the Teams 
• You can set up an entire intranet inside the Teams. Teams deployable intranets such as the Saketa Intranet Suite can be kept as a tab within teams that can be used to access an entire Intranet within it 
• Business apps such as Planner, Project Tracker, Attendance management system and many more can be integrated within Teams and we need not navigate to their actual location to use them 

Teams Migration, Adoption & Governance 

With the exponentially increasing popularity of Microsoft Teams, adapting to it has become a necessary norm for any organization. And with the emergence of migration options, migrating to Teams is a great idea. But manually migrating requires writing scripts for the content to be migrated, manually creating the corresponding teams in the New destination and a lot of other steps to ensure that the elements of the source and destination are mapped properly. Along with it, adoption and governance too play a major role in ensuring it’s successful utilization. 

• Sharepoint being utilized by more than 70% companies worldwide, SharePoint to Teams Migration can be a great move to integrate the flexibility of Teams to the powerful adaptability features of SharePoint   
• Slack & Skype for Business have been the pioneer business communication apps for quite a time now.  Migrating them to Teams will ensure much greater connectivity. 
• Teams Best Practices such as taking care of Naming conventions, Channel creation, access control, setting up moderations, privacy settings etc can work wonders to give your teams a super-power to establish great professional feats.  
• Teams Governance plays a vital role in ensuring that the MS Teams platform is utilized to the best of its ability, thus amplifying collaboration and productivity. 

We at Saketa believe in modernization and fulfilling every need of our clients to deliver the best digital workplace experience. Our years of dedication has earned us a spectacular client base in quite a short span of time and we are glad to be a catalyzing part of their digital transformation journey. 

Saketa Intranet Suite v/s Valo Intranet

Features	Saketa Intranet Suite	Valo Intranet
SharePoint 2016-2019 & Online	Yes	Yes
Fast Deployment	Yes	Yes
Continous Update	Yes	Yes
Multi-Purpose Components	Yes	No
External Data Source Integration	Yes	No
Site Provisioning Tool	Yes	No
Integration With Teams	Yes	Yes
Display Templates	Yes	No
News Center	Yes	Yes
Rich Media	Yes	Yes
Multilingual Support	Yes	Yes
Personalized Space	Yes	Yes
In – house recruitment tool	No	Yes
Pricing	$$	$$$

Why Is Saketa Intranet Suite The Right Choice?

Saketa Intranet Suite is an interactive SharePoint intranet solution that modernizes your digital workplace. Our happy clients proclaim our award-winning Employee Engagement platform as the best collaborative workplace to drive an efficient Remote workforce.

• Intelligent, Intuitive Intranet ExperienceReplacing fixed widgets with Display templates to allow greater presentation flexibility. A wide range of purpose-built webparts and templates make your time over the Intranet fun and interactive.
• Publish News & Rich MediaNews center eliminates the need of multiple facets of SharePoint content creation. Instead, Author and Publish News, Announcements, Events, Blogs, media etc to the Intranet, directly from here.
• Built-in Social Media & Embedded ContentBring in content from Social media (Twitter, LinkedIn, Yammer etc) and integrate it with external data (Power Platforms, BI etc.) to manage all tasks at a single place and amplify productivity.
• PersonalizationOur “My Space” enables a personalized dashboard for every employee. It brings in relevant news, email, OneDrive files, tasks, contacts, etc.
• Advanced SearchNarrow down your find using Intelligent Search with refiners. Knowledge Base allows you to visually browse for any content throughout your SharePoint tenant.
• Business Apps IntegrationAugments your Intranet with business apps like Idea Board, Kanban or bring in data from apps like Salesforce, Jira, etc. For a unified digital workplace.

Why is Saketa Intranet Suite Better?

Saketa Intranet is a storehouse of multiple advanced features that enhance your Employee Engagement experience in the best ways possible.

Customizable Widgets

Our range of Display+Functional widgets and templates are not confined to specific features, thus they can be customized and cloned for reuse to meet your needs

Built in page layout

Avoid repeated page customizations and opt for our built-in page layouts to differentiate your page structure from the full-fledged site templates

Employee Directory and Organization Chart

Search or learn more about your co-workers and keep an easy track of organization talent network

Native Microsoft Teams integration

Extends your Intranet sites to Microsoft Team as tabs to stay connected on news, event and content.

Analytics And Governance

Each Saketa Intranet power site comes with builtin user and usage analytics reports as well as governance features to keep you in control

List View Customization

List View Customization lets you customize the view of SharePoint lists to match your display templates, thus eliminating any custom coding.

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Saketa Amaze: Built-in Templates and Site Provisioning Tool

Saketa’s Built in Template and Site Provisioning tool lets you convert any of your Saketa Intranet sites and save it as a Template for further use. Clone, Copy and personalized new sites with Site templates

• Use our built-in suite of flexible site templates to create new sections and widgets according to your company requirements
• Site Provisioning tool lets you use a preconfigured site template and provision them for other teams in few simple clicks
• IT can stay in control of the Site requisition/creation process with configurable approval process for all Saketa Intranet powered site provisioning

Saketa Engage: An entire Intranet right in your cell phone.

Saketa intranet suite comes with a mobility app, customizable to have important News and Content from the intranet easily accessible to the users to let you keep up with it from anywhere. Saketa Engage integrates most of your intranet features into its mobile version to ensure efficient reachability in any situation.

• Access your dashboard, news center, employee details etc. right in your mobile device
• Enjoy responsiveness on every mobile platform and customize your mobile app according to your brand colors
• Reach out to your peers directly, have quick access to your frequently used apps and stay on top of your important documents

It was demonstrated to be right lately as many organizations enabled their teams and workforces with international accessibility to boost collaboration and boost growth to attack the present crisis.

Although it’s a fact that the SharePoint server was a fantastic ally for cooperation and content management for at least a decade, fulfilling the ever-growing technical requirements & needs to multiply company development, updating to a SharePoint Online or Office 365, that is to designed to update and transform your company and supply ubiquitous connectivity is now unavoidable.

Studies reveal that roughly 55 percent of SharePoint users across the globe have migrated to SharePoint Online and Office 365 and began reaping its numerous advantages.

But, effective SharePoint Migrations need a thorough strategy and cautious execution – an area where we excel. Our crew of specialists, using their immense expertise in SharePoint Migrations, researched and developed a fool-proof strategy that delivers and guarantees, without margins for error.

Microsoft will discontinue its long life support for SharePoint 2010 from October 2020 and also for SharePoint 2013 from April 2023. This means organizations which are still using the legacy versions of SharePoint ought to begin trying to find a solution, instantly. Ever since, migration to a different platform is sure, migrating SharePoint Online/Office 365 isn’t simply the wise selection but also the correct option. Otherwise, Your company is going to be left vulnerable and exposed. Here is why-

Once the extended life assistance ends, the guarantee of safety becomes void as safety updates/patches, bug fixes will no more be sent, leaving your whole organization dangerous.
Support for all these variations will also wind for great – leading to an exponential growth in host downtime and costs for the upkeep of obsolete hardware and software.
By adapting to SharePoint Online or Office 365, get access to some contemporary & user friendly UI in addition to a number of its finest and incredibly useful features which aids in increasing productivity and cooperation.
Before migrating, it’s highly suggested to completely inspect the differences between the newer and older versions and create a thorough list of all of the characteristics that are becoming obsolete and all of the characteristics that have been extended a significant update or are replaced in the most recent version. Saketa supplies SharePoint feature evaluation which can help deliver profitable migration.
It’s also crucial to have a Migration Strategy along with also a SharePoint Governance Plan set up, before start migration. We focus in SharePoint Migrations and also our Migrations specialists curated an easy yet innovative approach that ensures a successful migration.
There are a number of things to think about and conquer while updating and SharePoint Migration isn’t any exclusion. Based upon the sheer number of information independently, a range of challenges could be struck. And, once the remaining factors are brought into the fold, then the chances for error-prone/unsuccessful migrations will be amplified. These two situations the time, effort, and cost will be wasted and, is going to lead to a reiteration of the whole migration process, raising time, work and, cost, again.

Here is how-

The rate of this migration is going to be impacted if the inner servers aren’t configured correctly / when the online rate isn’t fulfilling the necessary bandwidth, leading to an increase of period for migration.
There’ll be a significant reduction of information respective to articles types/columns, workflows and, internet parts in the destination as a result of absence of accounting of those factors in the origin.
Deprecated templated and users that are open may cause failed migrations or even paid attention to, in the origin itself.
Hidden libraries and lists, preservation of thing IDs, outside lists and files without appropriate versioning will also cause ineffective migrations if not cared for, right from the start. Our Migration Strategy, formulated by a group of SharePoint Migration pros will provide a powerful migration, inside the expected quantity of time and can also help you by supplying on-going support.
An effective SharePoint Migration requires a comprehensive evaluation of items & resources to be migrated to invent a strategy, foresee challenges & threats, and face them ahead and, execute the strategy to perfection. We’ve been doing this since a lengthy period and our decades of experience in tackling SharePoint migrations and fulfilling our customers by exceeding their needs enabled us to become leaders within the sphere of SharePoint Migrations. Our capacity to induce powerful migrations is only possible because we follow a strict strategy, designed to perform perfect migrations.

We split the Entire program into three stages – The Planning Phase, The Execution Stage and The Inspection Stage.
From the Planning Stage, we have a deeper look in your present data and record all of the anticipated field/areas where there chance for error before start the migration procedure.
Through the Execution Stage, we could opt for the 4R plan
At the last stage, i.e., the Inspection Stage, we analyze the origin and the destination and also execute cross-referencing to affirm if the migration is effective.
We maintain your data by copying it and keeping it securely.

Restructure
We examine your information and set a strategy to migrate in addition to an archivefile, purge and use your information. 

Reorganize
We supply you a wise and effortless methodology to re create your articles in a contemporary and suave manner. 

Redesign 
We update your website arrangement by redesigning and devoting it to best match the demands of your company. 

In Saketawe respect the demands of our customers and consider their needs with the utmost importance. We operate with the finest of their very best and completed several migrations, which gained our own years of repeat business and a massive customer base, who trust us to satisfy their expectations. Leverage of experience to change and update your own organization.

Update to SharePoint Online, with no additional delay!