Does 7x7 video conferencing make Teams a legitimate alternative to Zoom? What else do they need to do?

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CIO in Software4 years ago

Of course there are concerns...process mining, master data management, performance, process and workflow compliance, vendor lock in, source code control, security, patch management, automation, integration, reporting..a lot. IT work is only getting bigger with it. We need to build a whole ecosystem around it but business benefit is too big to ignore

Director of IT in Software4 years ago

I do not see Team as direct competitor to Zoom or alternative of Zoom. Teams is part of larger saas offer as part of O355 so if an organization uses O365 heavily teams have the native integrations and can do stiff that others can’t. For example teams has pbx capabilities but I don’t think it has intention to be direct competitor to any pbx. There are many organizations that uses both so Zoom and Teams does not exclude each other

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no title4 years ago

Agree completely. The precursor Business SKYPE, which is slightly different that personal SKYPE is a better comparison to ZOOM, WEBEX, GENESYS etc. However, our company dropped business SKYPE, & WEBEX and went full TEAMS to replace as our IP Phone solution, and conferencing tool, even for external meetings. TEAMS just wasn't ready for that in 2018, and still isn't in my opinion. If you do depend and use all the other O365 features, there isn't a replacement for TEAMS. And that is Microsoft's strategy. For purely hosting a virtual meeting, Business SKYPE was better than TEAMS, and WEBEX and other dedicated conferencing tools are better than Business SKYPE.

Director of Technology in Government4 years ago

I am in the public sector and Teams is great for collaboration but we use Zoom Webinar for our public meetings like city council and Planning & Zoning. There are tools in Zoom Webinar for public meetings that Teams cannot provide at this point.

Director in Manufacturing4 years ago

Web conferencing has been around for close to 20 years. Yet SKYPE and now TEAMs still cannot do what WEBEX and GENYSYS did as far back as 2005

Do their developers even look at competitors? Or have they ever hosted a call of more that 10 people

Teams is primitive. It works but it’s actually worse than SKYPE in my opinion

Director of IT in Manufacturing4 years ago

Teams has a long way to go.

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