Microsoft Teams integrations are one of the most powerful ways to upgrade your Teams experience. On its own, the MS Teams ecosystem is packed full of useful tools to bring your staff together, improve collaboration, and drive productivity.
However, as the way we work continues to transform, Microsoft knows most employees are using multiple apps to complete their tasks each day. By creating a more open and flexible environment, capable of integrating with the existing tools your experts use, Microsoft has built Teams into a single-pane-of-glass interface for productivity.
Today’s business leaders can integrate a host of critical tools into their Teams ecosystem through the AppSource marketplace and make life easier for employees in the process.
Today, we’re looking at just some of the best integrations you can add to your Teams experience.
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Employee Wellness by Health Hero
Need a way to keep track of your team’s wellbeing in today’s hybrid work environment? Health Hero has you covered. The Employee Wellness integration for Microsoft Teams allows companies to build a focus on wellbeing into their company culture.
The Wellness integration comes with a bot to capture information about employee health automatically daily, as well as biometric screening tools, and apps for creating wellness challenges and activities for teams. Features include:
- A global wellness feed to bring teams together over shared goals
- All-in-one dashboards for tracking employee health
- Wellness activities, competitions, and leatherboards.
- Health risk assessment and biometric screening tools
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Trello
One of the top Microsoft Teams integrations for boosting productivity, Trello is a tool for project management that companies can embed directly into their Teams experience. With the Trello integration for Microsoft Teams, you can automatically notify users on Teams when a new card is created or moved in Trello.
The Trello app in Teams can also let team members know when they’ve been assigned to a new task, or when they have an impending due date to think about. Features include:
- Create checklists, assign tasks, and review deadlines in Teams
- Notifications on changes to Trello boards in Teams
- Better Project tracking within Teams
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Jira
Another top option when it comes to Microsoft Teams integrations, the Jira Cloud for Microsoft Teams app helps you to get the most out of Jira and Teams together. In chat, you can convert Teams chat messages into a new Jira issue or add comments to existing Jira issues in a couple of clicks.
The Jira integration for Teams allows you to visualize Jira tickets in a Teams meeting within a side panel, so you can see what’s being worked on, and what tasks have already been assigned to employees. There are even handy notifications for keeping track of bug resolution, workloads, and app performance in real-time. Features include:
- Create, edit, and view tickets within Teams meetings
- Visualise Jira tickets during Teams meetings for more context in conversations
- Receive customisable Jira notifications in Microsoft Teams
- Convert Teams chat messages into Jira issues instantly
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Adobe Creative Cloud
A must-have application for creative teams around the world, Adobe Creative Cloud enables brands to create graphics, design videos, and edit photography with world-class technology tools. The Adobe Creative Cloud Microsoft Teams integration helps to bring your creative work and your creative teams together in a more unified space.
You can use the Adobe Creative Cloud app within Teams to pin creative cloud assets to channel tabs and get feedback on designs fast, or use message extensions to share cloud assets. There’s also access to connectors to notify you when stakeholders leave comments on Creative cloud. Features include:
- Pin Creative Cloud content to channel tabs instantly
- Use message extensions to share assets in chat messages
- Keep track of actions in Teams with notifications delivered by the app bot
- Get notified whenever comments are made on documents stored in Creative Cloud
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GitHub
Widely regarded one of the most valuable software development platforms in the world, GitHub allows developers to access crucial content, and collaboratively solve problems. The GitHub app for Microsoft Teams ensures your development team can stay current and access updates from Teams, without having to switch applications.
The GitHub integration with Teams supports access to notifications and messages from GitHub in teams, so users can share, create, and update code more effectively. Features include:
- Full visibility into GitHub projects in Teams channels
- Notifications and messages from GitHub Enterprise in Teams
- Access and receive information from GitHub repositories in Teams
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Wiki
A unique alternative to most Microsoft Teams integrations which require an AppSource application, Wiki is something you can already access in your Teams instance. In the top bar of any Teams channel, you’ll find the Wiki Tab, which acts as a smart-text editor for your teams.
Once a Wiki Tab is added to Teams, users can use it in the same way as Microsoft Word, sharing notes, images, hyperlinks, and tables in a convenient cloud-based environment. Features include:
- Add pages and sections to Wikis to create a business knowledgebase
- Access multiple formatting options for each document
- Collaborate inside Wiki’s with @mentions and comments
- Post Wikis to channels to share with everyone
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Zapier
If your team is one of the many in today’s modern world relying on a huge number of apps to stay productive, you may have found not all of the connectors you need to bring those apps together are already in Teams. Zapier can help with this. The Zapier integration for Microsoft Teams allows users to connect some of the world’s most popular apps within an extensive automation platform.
You can set up automated workflows with Zapier (called Zaps) which connect Teams with the apps you use most. For instance, you might set up a Zap that automatically notifies your team members when someone in another app sends a message. Features include:
- Create fully automated workflows within Teams
- Ensure employees can keep track of various apps at once with notifications
- Remove manual processes to optimize your workforce
