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Talking Teams Event Helps Attendees Understand and Implement Direct Routing

It’s no secret that the way businesses communicate and collaborate has changed significantly over recent months.

Talking Teams event on Direct Routing

It’s no secret that the way businesses communicate and collaborate has changed significantly over recent months. Collaboration tools like Microsoft Teams have become the new must-have for productivity, replacing the endless email thread. Video conferencing is quickly emerging as the best tool for replicating face-to-face conversations, and companies are searching for the best way to bring all of their UC and collaborative tools together.

Microsoft Teams, with 115M daily active users, is emerging as the service of choice for businesses in search of a comprehensive solution for collaboration, video, and business voice. At UC Today, our readers are always keen to learn more about what’s possible with Teams. That’s why we launched our fantastic Talking Teams event.

The Talking Teams two-day virtual event concluded on the 18th of November and is now available to stream online for the following 30 days (as with all our UC Summit-based events).

Microsoft Teams Insights

Our Talking Teams event on the UC Summit covered everything you need to know about building a complete Unified Communication strategy with Microsoft Teams. We looked at the basics on choosing a PBX system for Microsoft Teams and examined the complex concept of direct routing in depth, to help you prepare for success.

The first day of the Talking Teams event covered the process of finding a Business Voice solution for Teams. We discussed the value of adding voice to Microsoft Teams roadmaps, and how to decide whether Phone System or Direct Routing options were best for you. During the second session of day one, we also explored the options of adding SBCs to Microsoft phone systems, and looked at why direct routing is more flexible, but also more expensive.

If you joined us on day 2 of the Talking Teams event, you’ll have learned about how you can create a winning migration strategy for Teams UC, and the kind of challenges that companies might face. We also explored challenges that companies might face when using direct routing services and how business leaders can help to encourage adoption while ensuring security compliance for their UC solution.

The second session of day 2 discussed the presence of Microsoft Teams in a hybrid world and looked at what it means to use a hybrid strategy with Microsoft Teams voice. We answered your questions about hybrid solutions as a “stepping stone” to the cloud and looked at what companies can do to handle business interruptions during migration.

Check Out the Experience Now

If you didn’t have a chance to visit the live Talking Teams event for yourself – don’t panic. You’re not out of luck yet. Our full Teams event is now available to stream on-demand on the UC Summit platform – so you can go and see it for yourself whenever you like.

Make sure you take advantage of the stream for helpful insights from Microsoft Teams direct routing pros ranging from Ribbon Communications, to AudioCodes, SCB Global, and Voxbone!

Don’t miss your second chance to enjoy this great event.

 

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