{"id":296,"date":"2017-09-25T06:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T13:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-nz\/2017\/09\/25\/a-new-vision-for-intelligent-communications-in-office-365\/"},"modified":"2022-06-28T10:50:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T17:50:14","slug":"a-new-vision-for-intelligent-communications-in-office-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-nz\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2017\/09\/25\/a-new-vision-for-intelligent-communications-in-office-365\/","title":{"rendered":"A new vision for intelligent communications in Office 365"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s post was written by <\/em>Lori Wright, general manager for Microsoft Teams and Skype product marketing.<\/em><\/p>\n

Today at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Florida, we introduced a new vision for intelligent<\/strong> communications<\/strong>, transforming calling and meeting experiences for people and organizations around the world. Intelligent communications go beyond traditional unified communications, enabling you to complete tasks more efficiently with minimal context switching, participate in more productive meetings that cover the entire meeting lifecycle, and better manage your everyday communications overload.<\/p>\n

Microsoft Teams<\/a> is core to our vision for intelligent communications\u2014bringing together conversations, meetings, files, Office apps, and third-party integrations\u2014to provide a single hub for teamwork in Office 365<\/a>. Teams is now being used by over 125,000 organizations across the world in just six months since its launch. Its strong momentum has proven that teamwork is essential to the way work gets done today.<\/p>\n

To achieve our vision for intelligent communications, we are bringing comprehensive calling and meetings capabilities into Teams, along with data and insights from the Microsoft Graph, and a strong roadmap of innovation to empower teams to achieve more.<\/p>\n

All of this is being built on a new, modern Skype infrastructure for enterprise-grade voice and video communications<\/strong>. Our next generation, cloud-born architecture is already powering communication experiences in Teams, and is evolving rapidly. We are excited about this new infrastructure because it will provide both speed of innovation as well as higher quality communication experiences.\u200b<\/p>\n

As we build out these capabilities, Teams will evolve as the primary client for intelligent communications in Office 365<\/strong>, replacing the current Skype for Business client over time.<\/p>\n

The future of business meetings<\/h3>\n

Combining communications, collaboration, and intelligence in this way will make new things possible across the lifecycle of a call or meeting:<\/p>\n