{"id":234334,"date":"2020-04-30T09:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T16:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/?p=234334"},"modified":"2022-06-29T07:30:51","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T14:30:51","slug":"2-years-digital-transformation-2-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2020\/04\/30\/2-years-digital-transformation-2-months\/","title":{"rendered":"2 years of digital transformation in 2 months"},"content":{"rendered":"
This week, CEO Satya Nadella delivered Microsoft\u2019s quarterly earnings report to Wall Street\u2014our first in the era of COVID-19. On the call, Satya shared some new numbers: In April, we saw more than 200 million Microsoft Teams meeting participants in a single day, generating more than 4.1 billion meeting minutes<\/strong>. Also, Teams now has more than 75 million daily active users<\/strong>, and two-thirds of them have shared, collaborated, or interacted with files on Teams as well. As Satya put it, \u201cWe\u2019ve seen two years\u2019 worth of digital transformation in two months. From remote teamwork and learning, to sales and customer service, to critical cloud infrastructure and security\u2014we are working alongside customers every day to help them adapt and stay open for business in a world of remote everything.\u201d<\/p>\n To keep their teams connected in this world of remote everything, our customers need more than meetings or chat alone. Teams combines meetings, calls, chat, and collaboration into a single tool that preserves context and keeps everyone up to speed. Below, I dig into the role that Teams is playing to keep the world working and share customer stories about how Teams enables their work. But first, a bit more about those numbers.<\/p>\n Satya shared three important types of numbers in his call: daily meeting participants, daily meeting minutes, and daily active users. We see different vendors use these metrics in different ways, but we\u2019re the only one on the market that can release all three. The reason for that is simple: Teams is the only solution that offers chat, calls, meetings, and collaboration in one.<\/p>\n So how do we define each? Our daily meeting participants number<\/strong> is the aggregate number of people joining a meeting in a day\u2014so if someone participates in five meetings in a day, they would be counted five times. Meanwhile, we measure daily meeting minutes <\/strong>by adding together the total time people spend in Teams meetings within a 24-hour period. For example, if two people are in the same 10-minute meeting, we count that as 20 meeting minutes. Finally, we define daily active users (DAU)<\/strong> as the count of unique users performing an intentional action in a 24-hour period in any of the Teams clients\u2014desktop, mobile, or web. Intentional actions include sending or replying to a chat, joining a meeting, or opening a file in Teams. We don\u2019t count passive actions like auto boot, minimizing a screen, or closing the app. We also don\u2019t count Skype Consumer or Skype for Business usage, since that\u2019s a completely different app. Our DAU numbers are de-duped, meaning we only count each user once.<\/p>\n Across education, government, healthcare, and business<\/strong>, Teams is powering collaboration for organizations of all sizes while meeting the highest standards of security and privacy. Around the world, more than 183,000 educational institutions use Teams. In the United Arab Emirates alone, over 350,000 students are relying on Teams for remote learning. On the business side, 20 organizations have more than 100,000 active users on Teams, including Continental AG, Ernst & Young, Pfizer, and SAP. Just last week, Accenture became the first organization to surpass half a million users, and we expanded our partnership with the NFL. We even collaborated with the League to help bring the first-ever virtual NFL Draft to life with Teams!<\/p>\nAbout the numbers<\/h3>\n
Powering the world\u2019s work<\/h3>\n