03-12-2019, 07:19 PM
10 of the latest Microsoft Teams integrations to help you work smarter
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<p>We built Microsoft Teams as a platform to bring together all of your workplace tools, apps, and services—whether or not we built them—to allow you to deliver better workday flow for you and your employees. A lot of you recognize the power of Teams, and you’ve been asking how to use Teams to its full advantage. Look no further. Today, we’re sharing ten of the latest Teams integrations you can use every day to simplify workflows, refocus your attention, and get back to working smarter—not harder. This is something our CEO, Satya Nadella, recently addressed in his interview on the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/video/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-on-the-future-of-communication-at-work/1A46666A-FA27-41E0-8C8E-6ABF353D0629.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">future of communication at work</a> with the Wall Street Journal.</p>
<h3>Ten of the latest integrations to try in Teams</h3>
<p>These ten integrations bring everything from customer feedback and employee polls, to workflow and project management, into Teams, to make your apps work for you.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Funnel customer feedback straight into Teams:</strong> <a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381549?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Twitter</strong></a><strong><u><br /></u></strong>As one of the largest social media platforms around, Twitter mostly needs no introduction. However, did you know it’s a great way to gather customer feedback? By integrating Twitter into Teams, you can set up alerts relevant to your company. So, when a customer tweets at your handle or uses your hashtag, it flows directly into Teams, where you can share or respond without stopping your workflow.</li>
<li><strong>Transform the way you work: </strong><a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381816?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>ServiceNow</strong></a><br />ServiceNow delivers digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity. The cloud-based Now Platform transforms old, manual ways of working into modern digital workflows, so employees and customers get what they need when they need it. Read more about the ServiceNow integration for <a href="https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/madrid-servicenow-platform/page/administer/virtual-agent/task/install-va-integrations.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Virtual Agent</a>, a chatbot that helps build conversational workflows to resolve common ServiceNow actions, as well as <a href="https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/madrid-servicenow-platform/page/administer/integrationhub/reference/microsoft-teams-spoke.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IntegrationHub</a>, which lets anyone break down development backlog with codeless workflows in an easy-to-use interface.<strong><br /></strong></li>
<li><strong>Get organized with your very own automated administrative assistant</strong><strong>:</strong> <a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/web-apps/zoomaiinc.zoomai?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Zoom.ai</strong></a> <strong><br /></strong>Zoom.ai lives inside your chat, email inbox, and calendar to help you offload and automate tasks. You interact with it by typing commands in a chat window, where it can schedule Teams meetings for you, brief you on your day, send and receive reminders, and create documents when you need them. It works for you, where you work. Watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYgXHdku4QQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zoom.ai video</a> to learn more.</li>
<li><strong>Organize any of life’s projects</strong><strong>:</strong> <a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104380037?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Trello</strong></a><strong><br /></strong>Trello is a project management software whose boards, lists, and cards enable you to organize and prioritize your projects in a flexible way. By integrating in Teams, you can see your Trello assignments, tasks, and notifications and have conversations about them—without leaving Teams. A fun way to bring together project management and project collaboration. Watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUT1gcCXNEg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trello video</a> to learn more.</li>
<li><strong>Run polls in tandem with your conversations:</strong> <a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381060?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Polly</strong></a><strong><br /></strong>Polly is a survey app that lets you create surveys in Teams. You can quickly create polls in your Teams channels and view results in real-time. You have the option to create multiple choice polls, freeform polls, or a mixture of both. Turn on comments and you’ve got yourself a full discussion board. Get the answers you need without disrupting workflows or clogging inboxes. Visit <a href="https://www.polly.ai/microsoft-teams" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Polly for Microsoft Teams</a> to learn more.</li>
<li><strong>Celebrate your organization’s culture and values: </strong><a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381894?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Disco</strong></a><strong><br /></strong>Disco is a solution that rallies your entire company around your core values. It makes it easy to give public shout-outs and congratulate your colleagues in real-time. So, next time a team member delivers a project ahead of schedule or demonstrates one of your team or company values in their work, pay it forward by giving them Disco “points” in Teams. They’ll feel supported and, who knows, maybe repay your appreciation. Watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ukj0qUh9k&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Disco video</a> to learn more.</li>
<li><strong>Help teams deliver value to customers faster by releasing earlier, more often, and more iteratively: </strong><a href="http://bit.ly/2TfWPZq" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Jira</strong><br /></a>Jira Software is a leading software development tool used by agile teams to plan, track, and release great software. Integrate Jira with Teams for a seamless way to visualize the important things like development velocity, workloads, bug resolution, and app performance all in real-time—from Teams. This makes it easy to inject insights into group collaboration without disrupting workflows. Learn more about <a href="https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216325/microsoft-teams-jira-connector?hosting=cloud&tab=overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Microsoft Teams Jira Connector</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Bring more structure to online brainstorming: </strong><a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381116?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>MindMeister</strong><br /></a>MindMeister is an online mind-mapping tool that lets you capture, develop, and share ideas visually. And by integrating in Teams, you can take notes, brainstorm, visualize project plans, and easily show connections between ideas all while discussing details with your team in the chat. Read <a href="https://focus.meisterlabs.com/meister-news/2018/12/14/manage-mind-maps-microsoft-teams/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Create and Manage All Your Mind Maps in Microsoft Teams!</a> to learn more.</li>
<li><strong>Bring creative work to team work: </strong><a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381222?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Adobe Creative Cloud</strong></a><br />Adobe Creative Cloud gives you the world’s best apps and services for video, design, photography, and the web including Adobe Photoshop , Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, Premiere Pro CC, and more. Integrate with Teams to bring your creative work and teamwork together. You can share work, get feedback, and stay up-to-date on tasks and actions. Read <a href="https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-xd-adds-integration-with-microsoft-teams/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Adobe XD Adds Integration with Microsoft Teams—Creativity meets collaboration</a> to learn more.</li>
<li><strong>Build software in the way that works best for you: </strong><a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/power-bi/pbi-contentpacks.pbi-github?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>GitHub</strong><br /></a>GitHub is the platform where developers work together, solve challenging problems, and create the world’s most important technologies. Whether you are a student, hobbyist, consultant, or enterprise professional, the GitHub integration in Teams allows you to create, share, and ship the best code possible.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Get started with Teams</h3>
<p>Bringing these apps and tools together in Teams is a great way to bring focus back to your workflow. They’re easy to integrate and offer something for everyone, whether you’re developing software, managing projects, or gathering customer feedback. And with new apps going live on Teams every day, your next productivity superpower is only a few clicks away. Check the <a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?src=office&search=teams&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Teams Store</a> today so you don’t miss out!</p>
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<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/10-of-the-latest-microsoft-teams-integrations-to-help-you-work-smarter.png" width="1200" height="631" title="" alt="" /></div><div><div><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/10-of-the-latest-microsoft-teams-integrations-to-help-you-work-smarter.png" class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div>
<p>We built Microsoft Teams as a platform to bring together all of your workplace tools, apps, and services—whether or not we built them—to allow you to deliver better workday flow for you and your employees. A lot of you recognize the power of Teams, and you’ve been asking how to use Teams to its full advantage. Look no further. Today, we’re sharing ten of the latest Teams integrations you can use every day to simplify workflows, refocus your attention, and get back to working smarter—not harder. This is something our CEO, Satya Nadella, recently addressed in his interview on the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/video/microsoft-ceo-satya-nadella-on-the-future-of-communication-at-work/1A46666A-FA27-41E0-8C8E-6ABF353D0629.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">future of communication at work</a> with the Wall Street Journal.</p>
<h3>Ten of the latest integrations to try in Teams</h3>
<p>These ten integrations bring everything from customer feedback and employee polls, to workflow and project management, into Teams, to make your apps work for you.</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Funnel customer feedback straight into Teams:</strong> <a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381549?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Twitter</strong></a><strong><u><br /></u></strong>As one of the largest social media platforms around, Twitter mostly needs no introduction. However, did you know it’s a great way to gather customer feedback? By integrating Twitter into Teams, you can set up alerts relevant to your company. So, when a customer tweets at your handle or uses your hashtag, it flows directly into Teams, where you can share or respond without stopping your workflow.</li>
<li><strong>Transform the way you work: </strong><a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381816?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>ServiceNow</strong></a><br />ServiceNow delivers digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity. The cloud-based Now Platform transforms old, manual ways of working into modern digital workflows, so employees and customers get what they need when they need it. Read more about the ServiceNow integration for <a href="https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/madrid-servicenow-platform/page/administer/virtual-agent/task/install-va-integrations.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Virtual Agent</a>, a chatbot that helps build conversational workflows to resolve common ServiceNow actions, as well as <a href="https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/madrid-servicenow-platform/page/administer/integrationhub/reference/microsoft-teams-spoke.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">IntegrationHub</a>, which lets anyone break down development backlog with codeless workflows in an easy-to-use interface.<strong><br /></strong></li>
<li><strong>Get organized with your very own automated administrative assistant</strong><strong>:</strong> <a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/web-apps/zoomaiinc.zoomai?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Zoom.ai</strong></a> <strong><br /></strong>Zoom.ai lives inside your chat, email inbox, and calendar to help you offload and automate tasks. You interact with it by typing commands in a chat window, where it can schedule Teams meetings for you, brief you on your day, send and receive reminders, and create documents when you need them. It works for you, where you work. Watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYgXHdku4QQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Zoom.ai video</a> to learn more.</li>
<li><strong>Organize any of life’s projects</strong><strong>:</strong> <a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104380037?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Trello</strong></a><strong><br /></strong>Trello is a project management software whose boards, lists, and cards enable you to organize and prioritize your projects in a flexible way. By integrating in Teams, you can see your Trello assignments, tasks, and notifications and have conversations about them—without leaving Teams. A fun way to bring together project management and project collaboration. Watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUT1gcCXNEg" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trello video</a> to learn more.</li>
<li><strong>Run polls in tandem with your conversations:</strong> <a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381060?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Polly</strong></a><strong><br /></strong>Polly is a survey app that lets you create surveys in Teams. You can quickly create polls in your Teams channels and view results in real-time. You have the option to create multiple choice polls, freeform polls, or a mixture of both. Turn on comments and you’ve got yourself a full discussion board. Get the answers you need without disrupting workflows or clogging inboxes. Visit <a href="https://www.polly.ai/microsoft-teams" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Polly for Microsoft Teams</a> to learn more.</li>
<li><strong>Celebrate your organization’s culture and values: </strong><a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381894?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Disco</strong></a><strong><br /></strong>Disco is a solution that rallies your entire company around your core values. It makes it easy to give public shout-outs and congratulate your colleagues in real-time. So, next time a team member delivers a project ahead of schedule or demonstrates one of your team or company values in their work, pay it forward by giving them Disco “points” in Teams. They’ll feel supported and, who knows, maybe repay your appreciation. Watch the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ukj0qUh9k&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Disco video</a> to learn more.</li>
<li><strong>Help teams deliver value to customers faster by releasing earlier, more often, and more iteratively: </strong><a href="http://bit.ly/2TfWPZq" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Jira</strong><br /></a>Jira Software is a leading software development tool used by agile teams to plan, track, and release great software. Integrate Jira with Teams for a seamless way to visualize the important things like development velocity, workloads, bug resolution, and app performance all in real-time—from Teams. This makes it easy to inject insights into group collaboration without disrupting workflows. Learn more about <a href="https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1216325/microsoft-teams-jira-connector?hosting=cloud&tab=overview" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Microsoft Teams Jira Connector</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Bring more structure to online brainstorming: </strong><a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381116?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>MindMeister</strong><br /></a>MindMeister is an online mind-mapping tool that lets you capture, develop, and share ideas visually. And by integrating in Teams, you can take notes, brainstorm, visualize project plans, and easily show connections between ideas all while discussing details with your team in the chat. Read <a href="https://focus.meisterlabs.com/meister-news/2018/12/14/manage-mind-maps-microsoft-teams/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Create and Manage All Your Mind Maps in Microsoft Teams!</a> to learn more.</li>
<li><strong>Bring creative work to team work: </strong><a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/office/WA104381222?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>Adobe Creative Cloud</strong></a><br />Adobe Creative Cloud gives you the world’s best apps and services for video, design, photography, and the web including Adobe Photoshop , Illustrator CC, InDesign CC, Premiere Pro CC, and more. Integrate with Teams to bring your creative work and teamwork together. You can share work, get feedback, and stay up-to-date on tasks and actions. Read <a href="https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-xd-adds-integration-with-microsoft-teams/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Adobe XD Adds Integration with Microsoft Teams—Creativity meets collaboration</a> to learn more.</li>
<li><strong>Build software in the way that works best for you: </strong><a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/product/power-bi/pbi-contentpacks.pbi-github?tab=Overview&src=GEP_TopTeamsIntegrations" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><strong>GitHub</strong><br /></a>GitHub is the platform where developers work together, solve challenging problems, and create the world’s most important technologies. Whether you are a student, hobbyist, consultant, or enterprise professional, the GitHub integration in Teams allows you to create, share, and ship the best code possible.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Get started with Teams</h3>
<p>Bringing these apps and tools together in Teams is a great way to bring focus back to your workflow. They’re easy to integrate and offer something for everyone, whether you’re developing software, managing projects, or gathering customer feedback. And with new apps going live on Teams every day, your next productivity superpower is only a few clicks away. Check the <a href="https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?src=office&search=teams&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Teams Store</a> today so you don’t miss out!</p>
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