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SharePoint Online vs. Microsoft Teams; Planner vs. Project; Sway vs. PowerPoint
Does something like this help?
Microsoft Teams
What is it?
A chat-first platform for Team Collaboration. Conversations with your team members take place in the Team environment, rather than email. Files associated with your conversations and projects are stored in an associated SharePoint Online site (an Office 365 Group Site) but you may never be exposed to the SharePoint UI.
SharePoint Online
What is it?
Microsoft's document management / collaboration platform, which also serves a number of other collaboration use cases. SharePont is extensible and can incude the management of data in lists, workflow approvals, and document publishing use cases. Team members typically use SharePoint as a place to store and collaborate on files, but the discussions around those assets are typically done via email, Yammer, Skype, or other communications modes (not natively inside SharePoint itself).
Eric,
At this point I'm just looking for any guidance on SharePoint Online vs. Teams.
We've made the analysis that Planner and Sway are light versions of Project and PowerPoing and we have instituted a strategy on their use.
But I'm glad we're not the only ones frustrated by the lack of communication, diretion,strategy and guidance from Microsoft. Its put our teams into a tail spin as to how to implement and manage these environments without becoming the police and hammpering innovated ideas etc.
Thanks for your suggestion, we've begun some of that, but it requires a lot of time, which we don't always have.
Thanks again,
Aria
Does something like this help?
Microsoft Teams
What is it?
A chat-first platform for Team Collaboration. Conversations with your team members take place in the Team environment, rather than email. Files associated with your conversations and projects are stored in an associated SharePoint Online site (an Office 365 Group Site) but you may never be exposed to the SharePoint UI.
SharePoint Online
What is it?
Microsoft's document management / collaboration platform, which also serves a number of other collaboration use cases. SharePont is extensible and can incude the management of data in lists, workflow approvals, and document publishing use cases. Team members typically use SharePoint as a place to store and collaborate on files, but the discussions around those assets are typically done via email, Yammer, Skype, or other communications modes (not natively inside SharePoint itself).
Kevin,
Thank you so very much for that description. Now I have to figure out the IT/Corporate strategy in using Teams in conjunction with our SharePoint Online Team Sites. Its apparent that there are other Microsoft competing products with Teams, e.g. Yammer, Skype and we have fully vested in Skype, but it lacks any of the capabilities of Teams or Yammer and Yammer does not seem to be so tightly integrated with SharePoint Online and still lacks some features.
More importantly to me, is how to manage and provide a decent strategy about and around SharePoint Team sites and Microsoft Teams.
We are a small company of about 80 employees, so I would love to hear how other companies of smiliar size has successfully implemented this configuration and what strategies/governance were put in place and how these are being managed.
Thanks again,
Aria