Founded in 2000, Stratsys is a collaboration technology company based in Sweden and Norway. It delivers a wide range of products for collaborative strategic planning, sustainability planning, audits, and risk management, primarily targeting the CXO and regulatory level user. Stratsys also has a set of DO apps designed to help managers and team leaders simplify their day-on-day routines. DO board is a Kanban board-like daily planning tool that helps organise tasks for better visibility and control. Stratsys Meetings (also part of its DO apps) is a meeting productivity enabler that intervenes before the meeting, during the meeting, and after the meeting is complete.
The Stratsys Meetings app for Microsoft Teams was launched in February 2020. It provides Teams users with an agenda streamlining tool, a real-time notes and decision-making tool, and a meeting follow-up tool – all within the same application experience. According to Stratsys, this can help you save up to 20-30 minutes of effort for every meeting, which makes a big difference when working remotely. “With Stratsys Meetings integrated, you’ll be able to manage your meetings more efficiently and with greater structure and clarity directly within Teams,” Alexander Wigert from Stratsys noted in the press release for the app’s launch.
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Importantly, Stratsys has been a Microsoft Partner for over a decade and has several Microsoft ecosystem products across Teams, Outlook, and other platforms. This makes Stratsys Meetings a good fit for Microsoft Teams users, particularly if you subscribe to both products.
Let us review the app in detail.
Inside Stratsys Meetings for Teams
Before using the Teams app, you’ll need to sign up for a Stratsys Meetings account. Stratsys offers a 30-day free trial with full functionality, and as no credit card information is required, you can get started right away. After the trial period, you can upgrade to a paid version starting at $30 per month for five meeting organisers.
Once you have an active Stratsys Meetings account, head to Microsoft AppSource to download the integration. You can also find the integration in the application store accessible from the left navigation pane on Teams. Here are the key features to expect:
- Detailed meeting agendas – Stratsys Meetings lets you optimise your meeting agenda with clear action items, file attachments, and collaborative features. You can finalise the agenda by working closely with other meeting participants and then share it with the team.
- Meetings overview – Meetings overview in the Stratsys app is a simplified calendar view where all your meeting information is consolidated to provide you with a single pane of visibility. You can see the meetings scheduled for across the week, the date, time, and location of each meeting, and the platform through which the meeting was scheduled. You can also click on a meeting card from this view to start working on the agenda.
- In-meetings discussions – Once the meeting starts, you will be able to see the full details of your scheduled agenda and editable notes pane beside it. Here, you can take notes, specify action points, and write down any decisions taken during the meeting. Once the meeting ends, all this information will be consolidated into a succinct meeting summary.
- Actions view – The steps that are assigned to you across calls taken via Stratsys Meetings are collected in one place. The actions tab lists all the items you have to action over the next few days in the form of a handy checklist.
- Recurring meetings – You can use Stratsys Meetings to set up recurring appointments in your calendar. The app has a nifty feature where the meeting summary and notes from the previous session will be automatically presented to you just before your next meeting can begin.
- Automated reminders – The Stratsys Meetings app will send you automated reminders on action items until they are marked as complete. This ensures that no task is overlooked.
Why the Stratsys Meetings App Makes a Difference
Stratsys Meetings dramatically reduces the effort needed to complete a meeting effectively. You don’t need to juggle between disparate agendas, and you can map the in-meeting discussion to predetermined agenda items. The app also eliminates the effort needed to extract and curate action points from meeting notes manually.
What We Think
Stratsys can be a game-changer for managers, decision-makers, and collaborative workers who need to optimise meeting efficiency. It allows you to do more with the same – or even less effort. Download Stratsys Meetings here.
