We’ve been vocal about the rise of Microsoft Teams as a collaboration tool, and think that for most clients it is a better tool than Slack or Skype for Business. In fact, Teams is deceptively simple for such a complex tool, and if users are left to their own devices (pun intended) there are countless troublesome doors for them to open. That’s why we strongly encourage our clients to create a Governance Policy that sets the rules from the start. Without clear guidelines, Teams

The days of Milton from Office Space being sequestered in a basement are long gone: team collaboration is the key to enterprise success, and any thriving organization knows it. Employee productivity is often predicated on their ability to interface with team members, whether in the office next door or an ocean away. Until recently, though, there has been a long-standing gap in the way technology allows teams to communicate across organizations. Previous offerings have been f

With 2018 quickly approaching, we’re working with our clients to plan priorities and budgets for the New Year. Most organizations that we come across understand that even if Office 365 is their toolbox of choice, it isn’t a plug-and-play solution. Indeed, there is a wide range of combinations within O365 that can create a highly efficient enterprise environment, but getting there takes forethought and vision. Companies are asking questions from the broadest to the most specif

As cloud services are now more the norm, it’s easy for employees to use a multitude of collaboration tools for free or for a nominal monthly fee. While this might seem at first to take some of the burden off IT departments, it quickly sprawls. You start to see tickets and support calls come in for issues that you may or may not be equipped to handle. Maybe you’ve already seen examples of this, like users who create box, Egnyte, and Dropbox shares for collaboration, or subscri