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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).
This has always been a problem with Microsoft products.There seems to be a disconnection between development and marketing teams, they don't know how to name products properlyt or where they are going. I always get lost trying to explain OneDrive vs OneDrive for Business vs OneDrive (cloud version) to end users. For them OneDrive is just one thing. And I don't blame them. Another source of confusion is with OneNote versions - both desktop and Office versions looks the same, but they are not. Same with Delve, Groups, MySites, Teams, Planner, Flow, Power whatever... Microsoft Alphabet soup seems to be getting worse.