Microsoft Teams Essentials is a standalone Teams subscription that provides an all-in-one solution with meetings, chat, and collaboration for businesses with 300 or fewer employees. With Teams Essentials, small businesses from restaurants, to retailers, to professional services can easily meet, collaborate, communicate, and serve customers in new ways with an affordable, all-in-one solution.
As the 9-5 is phasing out and the need for remote working and virtual connections increases, you may be searching for a way to securely collaborate with employees, partners, suppliers, and customers. Whether you're a multi-city bakery, or a nine-person event agency, Microsoft Teams Essentials can bring your business together through one connected experience.
Whilst Microsoft has generally moved away from single product SKUs, and towards Office 365 bundled plans, there is still a clear requirement for those that don’t feel moving to Office 365 is right for their business, but still require a chat and meetings solution. Microsoft Teams Essentials works seamlessly with on-premise or hosted Exchange, integrates with your existing email system, and allows for a single calendar view.
Microsoft Teams (free) offers:
- Group meetings for up to 60 minutes, limited to 100 participants
- Direct user to user calls, limited to 60 minutes per call
- Up to 100 participants per meeting
- 5 GB of cloud storage per user
- Chat
- File sharing, tasks, and polling
Microsoft Teams Essentials includes everything above, plus:
- Group meetings for up to 30 hours
- Up to 300 participants per meeting
- Up to 30-hour time limit on any single user to user call
- 10 GB of cloud storage per user
Click here for more information on how to get started with Microsoft Teams Essentials, and to see how it compares to other Microsoft Teams plans, or reach out to our Software Team for further information.