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Access to SharePoint features directly in Teams

One of the limitations of Teams in the past was the access to some SharePoint features. Although you have already been able to see different pages from SharePoint in Teams, these were links that were opened separately in the browser and not in your Teams view. Now you can interact with the different web parts from SharePoint, directly in Teams without having to leave the Teams app.

This means that SharePoint will eventually become more of a backend function. Some administrative settings will continue to be made in SharePoint, but you as a user will be based entirely on Teams.

Fewer teams and more channels

Something that has previously caused challenges for users in Teams has been that it requires so many different teams to be able to restrict rights for different users. Therefore, teams have been created based on rights, rather than creating them based on who does what. However, the idea has always been to start from your role in the business and not based on what rights you should have.

In Teams, there is now a function called "channels" where you can create a separate channel within an organizational team. In the future, you will be able to limit authorization for these channels - something that was not possible before. In this way, an organizational team can restrict access at the individual level through its various channels.

One view for all functions in Teams

For you as a user, the biggest difference will probably be that you do not have to switch between working in Teams and Sharepoint and will only need to work in Teams in the future. You collect your work in one place, it looks the same wherever you are and whatever device you use.

There is also an educational value in this. It is confusing for the user to have to switch between SharePoint and Teams. Often it becomes difficult to grasp the connections between different resources, which means that many people wonder, for example, whether they are making changes in the right place. In Teams, you tie the bag together by collecting resources and functions available in Office 365 in one and the same app, which makes management more understandable to the user.

At the same time, you will also be able to tailor the organizational teams in Teams in a more process-based way, so that you start from your role rather than the permissions you have been assigned in the different teams.

Less technology and more benefits

For us at WeSafe, an important part of our mission towards you as a customer is to create an understanding of the value of the new functionality by translating the technology into business benefits. Presenting new solutions in a technology-oriented way will not give you a better understanding of the benefits they bring. Therefore, we are constantly working to provide concrete examples of what the solutions will mean for you in terms of business. Among other things, we do this by mapping the steps that are currently required to perform a certain task and showing how, for example, automation can cut a number of the manual steps, thus streamlining the process. One of our main strengths is the knowledge we have of you as a customer and your individual challenges, which allows us to build the examples in such a way that the benefits become clear to you.

Want to know more about how we can translate technology into business benefits for you? Get in touch with us!