Microsoft Teams
Modern No Longer Means Mysterious
Our Microsoft Teams consulting services help you realize the true value of your Teams investment. Let us set you up with flexible and secure employee collaboration in the cloud.
Teams, the fastest-growing application in Microsoft’s history, is changing how work gets done. Providing a single hub for communications and collaboration, Teams integrates many of the core functions of Microsoft 365. It incorporates messaging, file sharing, meetings, voice, devices, app platforms, and more.
Many organizations are seeking to deploy Microsoft Teams and drive user adoption quickly. Working with a certified Microsoft Teams consulting partner can help you develop a strategic approach to implementing Teams quickly, securely, and effectively.
The Value of Microsoft Teams Consultants
Without a targeted Teams implementation plan focused on deployment, governance and adoption, you risk data sprawl, user resistance, and minimal productivity gains.
Our Microsoft Teams consultants can help you realize greater return on investment , as illustrated in Forrester’s study on The Total Economic Impact of Microsoft Teams.
Benefits & Additional Impact of Microsoft Teams
(Forrester study: The Total Economic Impact Of Microsoft Teams)
4
hours a week saved by information workers through improved collaboration and information sharing
150
overnight trips replaced on average with online meetings by year 3
88%
of survey respondents who felt “having all of our solutions in one place saves time.
18.9%
reduction in meetings each week
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Our Business First Approach to Microsoft Teams Managed Services
We take a “business first” approach to using Microsoft Teams for collaboration – it’s not just deploying the technology, it’s making the technology work for your organization, setting the technology up securely, and training your employees to collaborate most effectively with it.
When you choose us as your Microsoft Certified Professional, we’ll work together to help you realize the value of Microsoft Teams faster. Our Microsoft Teams consulting services offer deployment & adoption accelerator frameworks along with careful planning and focus around the activities outlined below:
Roadmap & Planning
We use a methodical approach to plan Microsoft Teams deployments that supports the near-, mid-, and long-term business needs of your organization.
Our roadmap will get your organization to its envisioned future state using Teams to integrate with other systems and automate business processes.
Leading Deployments
We bring professionals with experience leading Teams deployments – including both the technical expertise to quickly get your organization to a secure operational state and the business knowledge to help you reach your goals leveraging technology and increasing employee engagement.
Adoption & Change Management
We encourage new ways of working together by providing you with a change management plan encompassing communications, training, support, and feedback mechanisms to maximize employee adoption of collaboration technology.
Governance
We work with you to understand your business requirements and discuss your Teams deployment options.
Then we configure settings and develop governance processes accordingly – enabling your organization to manage Microsoft Teams in a way that aligns with internal business rules and enforces corporate compliance policies.
Security & Compliance
We help you keep your data safe and secure while sharing information across multiple devices, locations and companies.
As one of Microsoft’s Top 50 Office 365 Security partners, we have the expertise to help assess your security needs and recommend the best course of action to protect your information.
Productivity
We provide strategic and tactical advice along with hands-on help to increase teamwork and collaboration among your employees.
Our support services allow you to realize a greater return on investment from building a Microsoft modern workplace using Teams and the entire suite of Office 365 tools.
Our Orchestry Partnership
Orchestry platform takes the guesswork out of “what to use when” in Microsoft 365 with pre-built Workspace Templates, intelligent Workspace Provisioning, an informative Workspace Directory, and robust governance and lifecycle management features to enable both IT administrators and end-users throughout the organization.
The Orchestry platform allows Centric to support clients with enhanced governance for Microsoft Teams as well as other Microsoft 365 business applications. Orchestry’s platform and the expertise of Centric’s Microsoft 365 certified professionals help organizations navigate the ever-changing modern workplace.
Accelerator 1 : Teams Adoption & Change Management (TACM)
Phase 0
Getting Started
- Build out a foundation for the remaining TACM phases
- Understand business goals and needs
Phase 1
Preparing for Change
- Define your change management (CM) strategy
- Prepare your CM team
- Develop your sponsorship model
Phase 2
Managing Change
- Develop CM plans
- Take action to implement plans
Phase 3
Reinforcing Change
- Collect and analyze feedback
- Diagnose gaps and manage resistance
- Implement corrective action
Accelerator 2 : Teams Deployment
- FRAMEWORK: Apply our framework, prioritizing collaboration, communication and content tools.
- READINESS: Use a checklist to assess team collaborations, meetings and calls, applications and governance.
- ENABLEMENT: Establish Teams admin center, and implement security & compliance, and develop Teams support plan.
- PRIORITIZATION: Prioritize steps and phase-in capabilities, moving from basic productivity to meeting solutions.
- FEEDBACK: Leverage quantitative and qualitative feedback to track adoption.
- Mobilize – On-board project team, establish governance, create a project plan
- Discover – Understand the current environment, document business requirements, and complete change readiness assessment
- Design – Design processes, complete data migration strategy, test migration strategy, finalize adoption strategy
- Build – Configure the system, build custom objects, migrate data, unit test, create training materials
- Test – Conduct end-to-end integration tests, conduct user acceptance tests, finalize go-live plan
- Deploy – Execute go-live plan, deliver end-user training, finalize support plans
- Support – Activate the support team and finalize project documentation.
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