Forum Discussion
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).
Yeah to make it even more confusing - Teams are actually Groups, which are actually SharePoint sites (albeit with some features missing) :-)
People are visual - we're getting in the habit of building infographics to help folks pick what they're looking for. Even short videos which give a brief overview are likley helpful instead of just throwing words at them.
Understanding whats what and what these apps are capable of is challenging, and Microsoft definitely needs to improve it's marketing strategy and collaborate more with their development teams. However, to back up Aria here, even with good knowledge of these products, the challenge for businesses like ours is the strategy around how to implement these. The typical answer is to "let the users pick what they need," but even if we trained the users on how the apps work, we have no strategy around what they should pick.
For example, our organization has some people trying teams, but now they're doing some work in the teams, saving files in a group named similarly but not created for the same purpse, attaching some files to yammer, then wondering why they aren't saving the documents on their department team site for centralized storage. We are in a position to completely revamp our intranet, and yet we haven't been able to move forward without understanding how we're going to tie all these pieces together, and how to decide where to put what.
JaredMatfess would you be willing to share some of your infographics, or provide some of your sources for informative training videos?