Empower Seamless Collaboration with Microsoft 365
Securely and effectively connect your company with Microsoft’s suite of communication tools, including Teams, SharePoint, and the Microsoft 365 platform. At AdaptivEdge, we’ve been helping our clients leverage Microsoft products to enable, optimize, and organize internal and external collaboration and communications for over a decade.
Ready to unlock chat, voice, online conferencing, channels, and third-party application integration for your organization? Learn how AdaptivEdge’s unified communications and enterprise collaboration consulting services can help you find the right configuration to transform your business.
Our Enterprise Collaboration and Unified Communications Solutions
Together, Teams, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365 offer the ultimate in collaboration and unified communications. With countless options and deep complexity, these solutions allow organizations to customize communications across multiple channels. AdaptivEdge can help you create a customized roadmap for the ideal UC&C and guide you through the design, deployment, and adoption process.
Specific solutions within our UC&C consulting include:
Device & Endpoint Management
Ensure every device that connects to your network meets your established security standards with Endpoint & Device Management Services, helping you keep employees productive on their chosen devices without compromising safety or compliance.
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Information Protection & Data Privacy
Get support for all aspects of your data security strategy, from classification to stakeholder buy-in and strategy management.
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Cloud Backup
Go beyond the basic, short-term backup capabilities packaged with your Microsoft products. AdaptivEdge offers implementation, management, and validation services to help you save and restore data in the long term.
Document & Records Management
Improve compliance while streamlining your document workflow processes. We leverage tools like SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Teams to cover your organization’s unique needs.
Your Unified Communications & Collaboration Roadmap
Adopting all Teams unified communications and collaboration features simultaneously is impossible, and full adoption can take years. Our approach is to develop a long-term roadmap that paves the most efficient path possible. The timing of existing contracts and the supportability of existing on-premises hardware often dictate the deployment sequence.
1. Governance & Compliance Configuration
There’s a delicate balance between fluid collaboration and compliance concerns due to oversharing. By default, Teams users can invite external users to existing Teams and share links to SharePoint documents without requiring authentication. This means a critical first step in our UC&C plans is to configure, monitor, and audit access and permissions to ensure that governance and compliance standards are met. We’ll also establish data loss prevention (DLP) policies to prevent the inappropriate sharing of sensitive data.
2. Group Chat and Document Management
Many organizations that use Microsoft 365 want to adopt Teams over Slack because of the enhanced telephony and meeting capabilities, superior Microsoft 365 platform integration, and cost savings. We leverage AvePoint’s FLY migration tool to migrate most Slack conversation, file, and message objects to Microsoft Teams. This migration can be done in the background before the cutover to minimize downtime and allow for thorough testing and validation.
3. Meetings
AdaptivEdge can help you enable Teams telephony by implementing and training users on Teams calling capabilities. This step may require configuring conference rooms with AV equipment and potentially migrating from another platform such as Zoom, Cisco, or another cloud vendor like 8×8.
4. Telephony
We like to introduce the telephony component last because most users will have fewer issues using Teams as their primary phone system if they’ve already been using it for chat and meetings.
Meet Your UC&C Consultant
Steve Soper is AdaptivEdge’s founder. He enjoys delivering business impact by working collaboratively with stakeholders and end users and is eager to help your team unlock new communication channels.
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