Microsoft Teams is diverse. Microsoft Teams is intense. Teams benefits are huge and Teams is everything that is needed by a cloud-based business for modern-day collaboration. You heard it Right. Teams conquers all the rest. With Teams, nothing can hold back your team.

What makes Teams stand out from others? Firstly, it’s backed by Microsoft with top-notch integrated chat, video calls, file sharing features and many more.  Secondly, here are four reasons how Teams benefits a cloud business:

• Teams Gives priority to Quick Communication: Ever had a situation where you lose a client by a few seconds? That’s very common in the fast-paced communication era of today and Teams knows that best. For time sensitive communication, Teams benefits customers by providing a feature of Priority notifications to cloud business Providers where your device keeps on pinging your recipients’ device, until you finally get their attention.
• Easy communication management across Teams: with abundant communication, you seldom lose control of what was needed when, and who is going to approve the document list not to forget which email is to be forwarded to whom. Here comes the communication management part which is made easy with features like Announcements, Channel cross posting and Channel moderation (the latter two features haven’t been rolled out yet, but are in process)
• Easier Schedule management at work: There’s a Time Clock feature that allows users to log their work timings right from Teams. Another feature is @mentioning where you can send one message to all people with the same role (e.g. @cashiers)
• The Teams Ecosystem: Teams has got all that is needed for a complete calling solution with features like Call recording for compliance, Contact center solutions and integration with Workforce management and Microsoft 365 partners.

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Teams is great for Collaboration and Microsoft has put in good amount of effort for its security. The application is Layer D compliant which make it a promising and secure solution for large-grad enterprises and cloud business organizations.

More on certifications; Teams has got SO 27001, ISO 27018, HIPAA, SSAE16 SOC 1 and SOC 2, and EU Model Clauses (EUMC) to its name. Even though certification isn’t a feature that any application offers to its customers, but it is important in terms of cloud security.

Integration with other tools

Not only Teams is secure in itself; it is also easy to integrate it with other tools and still stay secure. Microsoft Teams Security is an important factor for Office 365 users, since MS Teams is built into O365, CSPs can easily change e-discovery settings from Security & Compliance admin center for better cloud security.

Redundancy (for the sake of Legal Proceedings)

Admins can configure Microsoft Teams with “Legal Hold”, which means Microsoft will retain a copy of every type of data even after the original author deletes it, in order to be able to present the data in an evidence for the court of law. Looks like, you’ve got to stay on point while collaborating, at all times!

Data Location and Backups

Microsoft Teams Security is very organized in terms of data. The exact location of your data is not disclosed, but you can be sure it’s somewhere around you. MS Teams supports data location is Americas, EMEA, and APAC region. Your data will mostly be residing local. However, if there is a storm coming from the west coast and your data is residing there, it’ll be shifted to the east coast HD centers without user intervention.

Privacy

Microsoft Ensures its customers that, Microsoft Teams security has got same privacy regulations as are persistent in Office 365. The data isn’t controlled by Microsoft in any manner and not scanned either. Even the content uploaded or shared in Teams and other products like One Drive for Business, SharePoint Online etc. isn’t accessed by Microsoft.

ALSO READ: Make Most out of Microsoft Teams

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If you are a CSP having your own cloud business or if you resell Microsoft Products, MachPanel is your next best friend. MachPanel is a full-fledged Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP).  With this, you can cover up all your cloud business needs like Showcase Bundle & Sell; get End to End Automation, Own & Control the billing. MachPanel is the best end-to-end business management platform that you can get your hands on and it’ll take you to a good Business direction.

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Security Compliance

Microsoft Teams is built on Office 365 hyper-scale, enterprise-grade cloud with the best security compliance which ensures Microsoft Teams Security. It is a Tier D compliant product having industry leading compliance commitments. This includes standards like ISO 27001, HIPAA, and EU Model Clauses (EUMC), ISO 27018, SSAE16 SOC 1 and SOC 2. It also supports Cloud Security Alliance compliance.

Security Approaches

There are many approaches included in Teams for more secured operations.  One of them is team-wide and organization-wide two-factor authentication. Another is single sign-on through Active Directory. In Microsoft Teams Security aspects, the experts have made sure that the Data storage mechanism is equipped with Encryption of data at rest and also data that is in transit.

There are a few great additions to Teams is the Auditing and Reporting Feature, eDiscovery, mobile application management and chats and files management. The information protection Architecture for Microsoft Teams is a robust architecture which ensures Microsoft Teams security with a secured data flow between Exchange and SharePoint for Teams Files and Messages.

eDiscovery

eDiscovery is an important aspect of Teams. With eDiscovery, you can identify, collect and produce electronically stored information (ESI) when a request is received for any investigations needed for a law suit. A few capabilities are: preservation of information,  case management, export of Teams data and  search, analysis of chats, messages, meetings etc. in addition to this, a summary of all meetings is made available in eDiscovery for later use.

Data Location for Security

The location of Data is important for its security. In Teams, Data resides in geographic regions that are associated with Office 365. In this way, there’s no outage during a calamity. For example, if your data resides on the east coast and a storm is coming on the west coast, the data will be transferred from data centers at east coast to data centers at west coast, resulting in a smooth delivery of service and no interruptions during your business operations.

For a more secured data control, the privacy aspects are also quite reliable. The data stored in OneDrive and SharePoint Online resides there within the tenant and Microsoft has no access to uploaded content. Even email and documents aren’t scanned for non-service relates purposes.

ALSO READ: A look into Upgrading from Skype4B Online to Microsoft Teams

MachPanel and Automation module for Cloud Services Providers

For best automation of your business, it is advisable to get your hands on a reliable Provider with best-in-line infrastructure for more secured and reliable business automation. MachPanel is one such Provider that offers the latest infrastructure needed for progressive business automation. It is a Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP) which offers management of entire lifecycle and end-to-end service delivery to Cloud Services Providers. With security aspects built in to MachPanel, it is the most favorite and reliable platform for emerging Cloud Services Providers.

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