As we face financial uncertainties and modifications to work patterns, organizations are looking for methods to optimize IT investments and re-energize workers to realize enterprise outcomes. Now—greater than ever—organizations want options to adapt to vary, enhance productiveness, and cut back prices. Fortunately, fashionable instruments powered by AI maintain the promise to spice up particular person, crew, and organizational-level productiveness and essentially change how we work.
This promise is quickly changing into a actuality. At Microsoft, we’re working to include new, AI-powered capabilities throughout our client and enterprise merchandise, together with Microsoft Teams.
As a part of this steady innovation, I’m excited to share that Microsoft Teams Premium is usually out there. Built on the acquainted, all-in-one collaborative expertise of Microsoft Teams, Teams Premium brings the newest applied sciences, together with Large Language Models powered by OpenAI’s GPT-3.5, to make conferences extra clever, customized, and guarded—whether or not it’s one-on-one, giant conferences, digital appointments, or webinars.1
Do extra with much less
With greater than 400 new options and enhancements added to Microsoft Teams final yr, and plenty of extra to come back in 2023, all Teams customers can rely on continued innovation to deepen connections and foster collaboration. But some prospects are searching for Teams to do extra—provide extra superior assembly capabilities to extend productiveness and assist to consolidate their software program investments to cut back prices. Today, many organizations not solely pay for assembly options, but additionally buy costly add-on merchandise for webinars, digital appointments, assembly intelligence, and extra. With Teams Premium, prospects can get these superior assembly capabilities and extra for one low value of USD10 per consumer per 30 days. And, for a restricted time, you will get Teams Premium for simply USD7 per consumer per 30 days or 30 p.c off the usual value.2,3,4
Microsoft Teams Premium
Reduce prices and achieve AI-powered productiveness with extra clever, customized, and guarded conferences.
Meet higher with Teams Premium
Focus on what issues with AI-powered conferences, together with GPT from OpenAI
With a 252 p.c improve in weekly time spent in conferences within the first two years of the pandemic, we would have liked to seek out methods to “work smarter, not harder.” Both the tempo of labor and the quantity of knowledge wanted to sift via have grown exponentially, particularly with conferences. There’s a ton of time-consuming administrative work throughout conferences, like taking notes, determining essential takeaways, and capturing the suitable motion objects and house owners.
That’s why Teams is infusing AI all through the assembly expertise, serving to you be extra productive in new methods. With clever recap in Teams premium, you’ll get mechanically generated assembly notes, beneficial duties, and customized highlights that can assist you get the knowledge most essential to you, even if you happen to miss the assembly.
With clever recap, now you can save time spent reviewing assembly recordings. AI-generated chapters divide the assembly into sections so it’s straightforward to select and select the content material most related to you. This is offered right now for PowerPoint Live assembly recordings. Intelligent recap will mechanically generate assembly chapters primarily based on the assembly transcript as properly.
In addition, there could also be specific factors in a gathering that you simply wish to revisit. Available right now, customized timeline markers—that solely you may see—name out once you joined or left a gathering within the assembly recording, so you may shortly click on and eavesdrop on what you missed. Personalized timeline markers will increase to incorporate when your identify was talked about and when a display screen was shared.
Soon, these customized assembly highlights will increase to incorporate speaker timeline markers that present you who spoke in the course of the assembly, once they spoke, and means that you can bounce to that second. Speaker timeline markers are intelligently organized by who you’re employed most intently with, so that you’ll by no means miss suggestions shared out of your supervisor in a gathering once more.
With clever recap, you may deal with the assembly dialogue itself and never on capturing notes. In the approaching months, you’ll see key factors and takeaways after the assembly, with AI-generated notes mechanically created and powered by GPT-3.5. Follow-up is simple with AI-generated duties and motion objects mechanically urged for you.
AI-generated chapters for PowerPoint Live and customized timeline markers for once you go away and be a part of a gathering can be found right now. The further clever recap capabilities shared right here might be out there within the second quarter of 2023.
AI can also be right here to assist with a number of the hardest collaboration challenges—working with individuals who natively converse totally different languages. Anyone can activate stay captions in Teams and see real-time captions within the spoken language. But if assembly contributors converse totally different languages, organizations typically spend 1000’s of {dollars} for added real-time assembly translation companies. With stay translations (for captions) now out there in Teams Premium, you get AI-powered real-time translations from 40 spoken languages. Meeting contributors can learn captions in their very own language, saving cash and making conferences extra productive and easy. Only the assembly organizer must have Teams Premium for all assembly attendees to take pleasure in stay translations.
Personalized: Easily create conferences that fit your wants and your group’s insurance policies
We’ve heard from many organizations about the necessity to customise their conferences to offer a best-in-class expertise throughout consumer calls or create a fascinating and inclusive surroundings throughout the firm. When assembly with purchasers in individual or simply connecting with a co-worker, an essential a part of the expertise is embodying the corporate model and tradition. But with so many interactions and conferences shifting to digital experiences, these key components aren’t on the forefront. With Teams Premium, you get that further degree of professionalism and personalization. Branded conferences let everybody see the brand and colours of your organization once you be a part of the assembly, and permit your model colours to be infused within the assembly itself. During the assembly, Teams Premium customers can allow brand-approved group backgrounds and group collectively mode scenes, in order that what makes your organization and your folks distinctive will shine via in each a part of the assembly. These group backgrounds and collectively mode scenes can be found now and branded conferences might be out there in mid-February 2023.
Meetings usually are not “one size fits all.” You wouldn’t go to a espresso store for a confidential assembly or an auditorium for a one-on-one. When you schedule an internet assembly, you simply use the default settings as a result of drilling into assembly choices takes precious day out of your day. Now with Teams Premium, IT admins can create personalized assembly templates—like a consumer name, brainstorming assembly, or assist desk name— to mechanically embrace the proper settings, lowering the time and thought course of it takes to create and get the assembly proper. With templates, leaders can be sure that their conferences adhere to firm greatest practices and insurance policies.
Just like conferences usually are not “one size fits all,” totally different Teams insurance policies are sometimes assigned primarily based on consumer teams or departments. For instance, your authorized division could have a much less restrictive assembly or messaging insurance policies, equivalent to working with exterior customers, than exterior company contractors. Assigning conferences, messaging, and app insurance policies individually is usually a complicated activity. But with the now out there {custom} consumer coverage packages, IT can save time by making a personalized bundle of insurance policies for customers with related roles within the group. It’s a simplified, streamlined time saver that gives consistency when managing insurance policies for teams of customers throughout your group.
Protected: Help hold confidential conferences confidential
As conferences have shifted to digital and hybrid, it has created a brand new set of knowledge safety challenges for organizations. Sensitive and confidential enterprise conversations like board conferences, monetary discussions, or undisclosed product evaluations now occur via Teams conferences. While organising a Teams assembly is a fast and easy course of, it’s vital for delicate conferences to have an added layer of safety to assist make sure the content material and knowledge stay safe.
With superior assembly safety out there right now in Teams Premium, you may simply improve safeguards for confidential enterprise conferences with out hampering the assembly expertise. New assembly choices, like watermarking to discourage leaks and limiting who can document, provide you with further protections to maintain the dialogue personal. Meeting organizers can leverage a singular watermark over attendee display screen shares and video feeds to confidently current and show delicate info. And for these uncommon, extraordinarily delicate conferences that require disabling a number of the core assembly options for a sophisticated encryption possibility, IT-enabled customers can apply end-to-end encryption (E2EE) choice to the assembly. As a reminder, information exchanged throughout Teams calls or conferences is at all times secured utilizing industry-standard encryption in transit and at relaxation.
We know that conferences can typically change matters and generally that features discussing business-sensitive info that wants an additional layer of safety. For Microsoft 365 E5 prospects with Teams Premium can now allow Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels for Teams conferences. Meeting organizers can leverage sensitivity labels to mechanically apply essentially the most related and essential assembly choices primarily based on the sensitivity of assembly content material. Compliance admins can configure this integration with Teams conferences within the Microsoft Purview compliance portal to find out which assembly choices must be enforced if the label is utilized in a gathering.
Managing and defending info shared in conferences is now simpler with the brand new capabilities out there right now in Teams Premium.
Virtual Appointments: Delight purchasers, streamline appointment administration, and measure outcomes
Whether you’re offering mortgage recommendation, conducting a well being go to, or promoting to prospects, connecting nearly with prospects has grow to be a necessity. Now, organizations see the continued alternative to have interaction and attain prospects conveniently from any location.
With Teams Premium, it’s now straightforward to attach with prospects and handle the end-to-end buyer expertise with Virtual Appointments in Teams, saving you money and time on further add-on or level options. You can delight prospects with a seamless be a part of expertise that permits exterior attendees to affix digital, branded foyer rooms via textual content messages or electronic mail on any system browser—with out them having to obtain an app.
Your scheduling directors are empowered to arrange and handle scheduled and on-demand digital appointments in a single location with superior capabilities like appointment queuing. Your group can even measure the enterprise worth of digital appointments and drive buyer outcomes with department-level or organization-level analytics on buyer metrics equivalent to wait occasions and no-show charges.
Delighting purchasers, streamlining appointment managing, and measuring outcomes simply obtained simpler right now with new Virtual Appointments, out there now. Read the Tech Community weblog to study extra.
Webinars: Host occasions with seamless registration and customised experiences
Many organizations need an end-to-end resolution to host varied sorts of digital occasions—whether or not these occasions are customer-facing webinars to develop enterprise or on-line organization-wide trainings—that provide customized touches for presenters and attendees alike. Teams Premium consists of webinars to simply host these occasions whereas additionally saving you money and time—no want for add-on options or working throughout totally different platforms. Webinars enable presenters to affix the digital inexperienced room in order that preparation earlier than the webinar is seamless. Presenters have the time and house to attach and do a fast briefing or check run with out disturbing attendees. While attendees watch for the occasion to begin, they will interact with the presenters and each other via chat and Q&A.
And in the course of the webinar, presenters can extra successfully handle what attendees see. These host controls create extra professionally produced occasions and make it straightforward to create extra dynamic engagement for presenters and attendees. Along with this customization, the registration expertise might be even higher with registration waitlist and handbook approval and the flexibility to customise the registration begin and finish occasions for higher occasion administration.
To elevate your presentation and ship extra dynamic content material, combine totally different exterior media feeds into your webinar utilizing RTMP-in. By leveraging an exterior encoder and enabling RTMP-in, you’ll be capable of stay stream a {custom} RTMP supply, whether or not or not it’s a professionally produced video or high-quality display screen sharing, to all attendees within the occasion.
To construct pleasure and drive attendance to your webinars, you may leverage well timed reminders with automated reminder emails. These emails might be despatched to each confirmed registrant at a configured time you set forward of the occasion and can embrace a custom-branded header, webinar particulars, and a hyperlink to affix the occasion.
These webinar capabilities can be found now, aside from automated electronic mail reminders which might be out there in March 2023. Learn extra about these new webinar experiences.
Microsoft eCDN: Improve stay occasion experiences
To enhance stay occasion experiences inside a company, our Microsoft Enterprise Content Deliver Network (eCDN) is now included in Teams Premium. With Microsoft eCDN, organizations can seamlessly and securely stay stream world conferences, all-hands gatherings, and city halls, and distribute company-wide trainings utilizing Teams Live Events. Microsoft eCDN helps cut back the load on the company community, helps forestall connectivity failure and poor video high quality, and doesn’t require any further set up on consumer endpoints and gadgets.
Get began with Teams Premium right now
Expect extra out of your assembly resolution. Reduce prices and achieve AI-powered productiveness with Microsoft Teams Premium. Give it a strive at no cost for 30 days3 or purchase earlier than July 1, 2023, for simply USD7 per consumer per 30 days—30 p.c off the usual USD10 pricing.4 Try or purchase Teams Premium right now.
1GCC is launching March 1, 2023.
2Introductory pricing of USD7 per consumer per 30 days is offered for the complete time period of your preliminary subscription (apart from some month-to-month and a few 3-year annual billed month-to-month subscriptions). This provide ends June 30, 2023, and can return to the usual USD10 per consumer per 30 days value on July 1, 2023, until in any other case acknowledged. This provide is offered worldwide to Commercial (together with WW Commercial Public Sector), Non-profit (normal discounting applies), and GCC (GCC launching March 1, 2023). Microsoft reserves the suitable to cancel, change, or droop this introductory pricing at any time with out discover. Listed pricing could range because of forex, nation, and regional variant elements. Contact your Microsoft gross sales consultant to study extra.
3Your free Microsoft Teams Premium trial will mechanically finish after 30 days.
4A consumer will need to have an present Microsoft 365 or Office 365 license as a requirement for the Teams Premium add-on. Learn extra.