<\/a><\/p>\nForrester study: The Total Economic Impact\u2122 Of Microsoft Teams.<\/em><\/p>\nOverall, customers were pleased with Teams and how well it integrates with the rest of Office 365. They cited associated cost savings as a key factor in adopting Teams. For a standard 5,000-user organization, the study reported benefits and costs of roughly $30.3 million and $3.3 million respectively, resulting in an overall net benefit of $27.1 million over three years.<\/p>\n
\u201cTeams integrates well with the Office 365 suite, which is very important. Our CIO decided that Teams has superior functionality to the other solutions we were considering and integrates better. That will save us money.\u201d \n<\/em>\u2014Forrester study: The Total Economic Impact\u2122 Of Microsoft Teams<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\u201cTeams is very positive for engendering a coworking environment. It gives you everything you want in one place to effectively collaborate. You can contact each other quickly and also understand what other people are working on.\u201d \n<\/em>\u2014Forrester study: The Total Economic Impact\u2122 Of Microsoft Teams<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nKey benefits from implementing Teams<\/h3>\n The study uncovered 11 benefits for companies to consider as they evaluate Teams as a primary communication and collaboration tool.<\/p>\n
The top four benefits are:<\/p>\n
\nTeams reduces the total number of meetings and their duration. <\/strong>Online meetings conducted over Teams are reliable and of very high audio-video quality. As a result, employees spend less time addressing setup and call quality issues, and more time interacting. The total time savings equal $6.9 million.<\/li>\nInformation workers save four hours per week from improved collaboration and information sharing. <\/strong>With Teams features like coauthoring, integrated file storage, and internal directory, information workers can effectively and efficiently collaborate in real-time. The potential savings equal more than $14.3 million.<\/li>\nInformation workers save more than one hour per week by not having to switch between applications. <\/strong>Access to third-party and line-of-business apps inside Teams from any device benefits all workers, especially remote workers. This creates better employee cohesion and a common corporate culture across locations. The total savings are nearly $4.8 million.<\/li>\nHaving resources available online in Teams reduces downtime by 14.6 percent. <\/strong>When resources are available in one cloud-based location, downtime is reduced and complexity is lowered, making security and compliance easier. Compared to on-premises solutions, the time savings are worth $258,000 across information and Firstline Workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nDownload the Forrester Total Economic Impact\u2122 Of Microsoft Teams<\/a> study today and learn more about the measurable impact Teams can have for your organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What Forrester learned from studying the benefits of Microsoft Teams across more than 260 organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3368823,"featured_media":232904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_classifai_error":"","footnotes":""},"content-type":[4032,4034],"product":[4036,4070],"audience":[4081],"tags":[4293],"coauthors":[4719],"class_list":["post-232903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","content-type-customer-stories","content-type-news","product-microsoft-365","product-teams","audience-enterprise","tag-forrester-research"],"yoast_head":"\n
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