Delegates attended a virtual Commsverse event today, focused on navigating a hybrid work world with Microsoft Teams.
The sessions covered topics across the Teams landscape including devices, meeting rooms, security and culture.
We've pulled out some of the key takeaways from the event below:
Low-Code Software Developing is Taking Off
Many businesses have, or are in the process, of returning offices and implementing a hybrid work structure. This is a huge challenge and one that needs to be navigated with employee safety as the number one priority.
April Dunnam, Power Platform Advocacy Lead at Microsoft, talked delegates through the challenges that businesses are facing as they build out their plan for returning to work.
There are multiple stakeholders involved in the planning of a company’s working culture, she said, making it a complex process that can be difficult to manage.
Many businesses are turning to software to help them through this, she said, but one big hurdle is that there aren’t tailor-made solutions on the market.
“The problem with having all these stakeholders and needing is this software… is that there’s really no off-the-shelf software for a hundred-year pandemic,” she said.
“We are starting to see more software coming out now, but the problem is each organisation is unique in what they need to facilitate a safe return to work"
“We need something really customisable and that is exactly why low-code solutions have really taken off during this pandemic. We’ve seen an overwhelming surge of people turning to low-code to monitor the crisis and return to work safely.
Conditional Access is Crucial
The explosion of remote, and now hybrid, work has only been facilitated because we have the technology to do so. But this has also created unprecedented challenges for security, with employees dispersed and often using personal devices and networks.
For that reason, businesses need to take a zero-trust approach to security, according to Microsoft MVP and head of security, compliance and identity at CPS, Peter Rising.
“Zero trust in Microsoft 365 is a set of services and featured that are all joined together, and the principles are to verify explicitly, assume breach and always provide a secure platform for your users.
“Conditional access is one of the things that I always say to customers that they need to be deploying in their Microsoft 365 environment regardless of whether they are cloud-only or synchronising their active directory to an Office 365 tenant.
