Teams and Workplace, Microsoft’s and Meta’s (previously known as Facebook’s) work collaboration software platforms, are merging. The tech titans are gearing up to offer enterprise professionals better accessibility and engagement in business communications.
What Does The Integration of Teams and Workplace Platforms Mean for Corporate Professionals?
Corporate professionals will first view Workplace content in Teams, which will keep them informed about business events and announcements. Companies will be able to broadcast Teams’ meetings and webinars into the Workplace early next year. They will be able to view recordings of earlier events.
Users of Workplace from Meta will access and interact with videos inside Microsoft Teams and vice versa. In other words, users of Facebook’s Workplace app, now Meta’s Workplace, will respond to and comment on content posted in Microsoft’s Teams. On the other hand, the users of the latter programme will watch videos produced in Workplace.
In short, company executives won’t have to leave Teams to access Workplace‘s community-building features. Both applications will be able to share and engage with content as a result of the collaboration.
Initially, people will see Workplace content within Teams, keeping them up to date on corporate events and announcements. Early next year, companies will have the option of streaming Teams meetings and webinars into Workplace and providing access to recordings of previous events.
Why Meta (Facebook) and Microsoft are Collaborating?
Enterprise users like Vodafone and Flight Centre Travel group ignited a demand for integrating the features of Teams and Workplace.
Meta has already integrated its Workplace tool with several Microsoft products, like OneDrive, SharePoint, and the Microsoft 365 suite. Apart from that, Microsoft has its Workplace rival in Yammer, a social network akin to Facebook.
Microsoft, which has a much larger user base, also gains with this partnership as they can now offer added functionalities to its users. Workplace and Teams aim towards distinct demographics.
Workplace from Meta, launched in October 2016, is a company-wide social network that mirrors the company’s consumer social apps, while Microsoft’s Teams allows for video conferencing.
What Meta and Microsoft Will Gain from This Partnership?
Microsoft and Meta are making Teams available on Meta’s Portal video-calling devices next month.
Even though Microsoft Teams has a larger user base, the alliance is likely to benefit both and speed up the transition to a corporate metaverse. Metaverse is a digital world where everyone will have a life parallel to life in the physical world.
To develop a more business-friendly version of metaverse, Microsoft is upgrading its cloud computing infrastructure and going for software modernization of their products.
Meta stands to gain more from the collaboration. To Workplace’s 7 million paying members, Teams has 250 million monthly users, giving the former an entry point into a large network of potential clients.
Final Thoughts
The partnership between Microsoft and Facebook (now Meta) can lead to increased cooperation, notably in the AR/VR Development industry. Both the companies are investing in the metaverse, and there are plenty of possibilities for creative collaborations.