January 14, 2021 Why MS Teams needs good governance for the next phase of evolution Introduction Teams is by far the fastest growing technology product introduced by Microsoft. It is more than just a chat-based tool. It offers a collaborative platform that runs on every employee’s desk for work, today. Microsoft Teams is extensively flexible and can incorporate lots of apps and services to get super-efficient. Moreover, Teams is on a way to develop a robust governance framework to plant further enhancements. Experts are finding ways to make it smarter and intelligent but without good governance that cannot be done. Governance and Future of MS Teams Governance refers to the policies, roles, responsibilities, and processes that an organization uses to effectively deploy and manage its IT resources while maintaining user productivity. Governance ensures the best use of technology while keeping systems secure and under compliance. By establishing effective governance, many organizations reaped full benefits from cloud-based collaboration. By resolving the challenges like teams sprawl, inconsistency in the naming of teams and groups, information overload, Shadow IT, poor visibility of content, data exposure, etc., organizations could release great administrative burdens. With some of the latest integrations, such as Twitter, JIRA, ServiceNow, Zoom.ai, GitHub, etc., Teams signifies that it is the future of communication. And what comes next is even more exciting. As the focus on remote work and virtualization strategies is increasing, Microsoft is committed to making collaborative platforms future-ready by infusing AI and cognitive services. Teams will soon integrate AI-enabled tools to solve real business challenges such as developing a business vision, getting approval, engaging with the IT team for programming, etc., much faster. Besides, there are other interesting things that Teams has to offer. One of them is cognitive content search. Content search gets rigorous as the data accumulates over the course of time and so the sorting of content. As such, AI and machine learning through smart search can transform the user search experience so that employees can find whatever they are looking for, in a snap. For all of this to come to fruition, Teams governance must evolve. It needs a better framework that can absorb SharePoint governance, security inside OneDrive, and properties of Microsoft graph. But can Teams governance be automated too? TeamsHub.io and MS Teams Automation The remote work explosion demands governance more than ever in Microsoft Teams. TeamsHub.io is a holistic business collaboration app that automates MS Teams governance and streamlines workflows to boost Teams engagement and efficiency. TeamsHub.io eliminates time-consuming, rigorous, and repetitive tasks of managing Teams environment by writing and rewriting codes for configuring policies. In addition, TeamsHub.io automates governance in SharePoint, Yammer, and other workloads to harness the full capabilities of the Microsoft 365 (previously Office 365) suite by offering a unified platform. TeamsHub.io and AI in Co-action Good governance paves a way for smart enhancements. With upcoming AI enablement, TeamsHub.io will soon take user engagement to next level. This will be done by rolling out AI-assistant bots such as Time-Off bot, Statsbot, HR Support app, Recommendation Engine for a content search to learn user behavior and offer appropriate recommendations, and more. Summary TeamsHub.io is all set to augment cognitive services to exceed current productivity levels using AI. This indicates that companies that adopt TeamsHub.io now will scale quickly and have an unprecedented advantage over rivals in the future. If you are an organization that already uses Microsoft 365 as your business communication suite, it takes about a couple of hours for TeamsHub.io to get fully deployed, so that there is no time to waste. To explore more about TeamsHub.io, please visit https://teamshub.io or contact sales@cyclotrongroup.com to request a demo